Vlog

Breaking News

Monster Mash is back in Downtown PKB

Mark your calendar and make sure you wear your spookiest costume to Monster Mash from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the green space beside Discovery World at 900 Market St. The event returns as a highlight of Parkersburg’s autumn calendar and promises to be a safe, family friendly Halloween ...

Look Back: Hunting, fishing a blast

Don’t Be A Game Hog Only a few days intervene before the opening of the bird hunting season in West Virginia, and from all reports a rich treat awaits those who enjoy the sport, but the State Journal desires to say a word to the man with the gun and the dog, and that is, don’t be a ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: WVU overdue for a general manager

In just the span of the last few years the landscape of college athletics has dramatically changed, impacting football more than any other sport. Letter of intent day for high school recruits once was the most significant milestone of the year when it came to building a football program. The ...

Reporter’s Notebook: To your health!

Last week, I covered the final two days of permanent injunction hearings to block a June directive from the West Virginia Board of Education to county boards of education to continue to enforce the state’s compulsory vaccine law and not accept religious exemptions approved by the Department ...

Editor’s Notes: Columbus Day’s long voyage

Public officials who have fallen victim to brief, distorted and whitewashed versions of the Christopher Columbus story that appeared in mid- to late-19th Century elementary school history textbooks would do well, in this era, to consider WHY there was ever a “Columbus Day” observed in the ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: The truth matters

The war on climate science has returned with a vengeance. The Energy Department recently banned several words including “climate change” and “emissions.” Bipartisan-approved renewable energy projects are being canceled. Environmental agencies are being dismantled. Climate science based ...