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The Way I See It: Sweetgums – the trees that really make a point

When I was a child, my dad planted a sweet gum tree in our Florida backyard. The tree grew quickly in the sandy soil and became a great tree to climb. The many branches provided easy-to-reach “rungs” on which I could climb higher than the house. Decades later I had my own house in ...

Look Back: Fish tales of Mid-Ohio Valley past

THAT FISHNIC Editor Fish Department: Ralph Covert, Rev. A.D. Carlile and E.F. Reifsnyder, three very acute anglers, left this city last Monday afternoon on a fishing excursion up the beautiful Kanawha. They pitched their tents at an ancient village named Leachtown, on the right bank. There ...

Editor’s Notes: Keep the lights on HERE

I woke up the other day and walked down to the kitchen to find no light switches working and no time glowing from the clock on the microwave. I thought for a minute there was a power outage — happens a lot out there — but then the fog cleared and I remembered the lights had been on ...

Op-ed: Prepared, educated voters make for stronger elections

CHARLESTON — Election Day isn’t just a single day’s worth of activities, but the culmination of more than a year of preparation. My office has been working with West Virginia’s 55 county clerks since last summer to get ready for the 2026 midterm elections. It is our job to make sure ...

Kiki’s Corner: Don’t waste time

Spring is finally here and with bright and sunny warm days, all we need is to take the time to be grateful. Being grateful daily brings peace, happiness, and positivity into life and we need to appreciate what we have. Our minds become calm and satisfied. Every morning we need to take the ...