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Support: More funding needed for victims of violence

The West Virginia Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program has provided grant funding for some important efforts in the state. More than $700,000 will be distributed to programs ranging from the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc., which ...

High Points of the Valley

* What a wonderful stretch it has been for entertainment and events in the Mid-Ohio Valley, as Pride Fest, Taste of Parkersburg, Marietta’s Second Sunday, Parkersburg’s Meet Me on Market, the Multi-Cultural Festival, the West Virginia Day celebration on Blennerhassett Island, Marietta Main ...

Look Back: Drive-In experience continues

Drive-ins usually showed two features plus a cartoon. With few exceptions, once darkness arrived the movie would begin, as the ads say, “come rain or shine.” A memorable experience of going to a drive-in was that car windows were usually left down, except for the one on which the speaker ...

Reporter's Notebook: Interim gripes

Last week’s legislative interim meetings were a bit of a let down for the press and the general public, and perhaps lawmakers themselves, though that is unclear. It was a traveling interim set among the mountains of Tucker County at Canaan Valley Resort State Park. Sunday and Tuesday ...

Letter to the Editor: Where is your attention?

We are living in a time where attention has become the most valuable currency a human being possesses, yet it is also the most casually spent. It is given away in fragments through distraction, reaction, comparison, and emotional overload — often without awareness that anything of value is ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: The problem(s) with plastic

Plastic is everywhere. Some uses are beneficial and unavoidable, like the specialty plastics that enable contact lenses and lightweight eyeglasses. Other uses are less beneficial but often seem almost equally unavoidable. Take grocery shopping as an example. Unless we milk our own cows, make ...