I have always been intrigued by the sight of a train engine pulling a long string of freight cars bound for one of the many industrial customers in our area. There was a time when the trains traveling along Ohio 7, or up through Vienna and through Williamstown would be trailed by a caboose, ...
Despite enormous settlements and creation of a foundation that says it is dedicated to preventing substance use disorder, supporting recovery and saving lives, a study this spring from WalletHub showed West Virginia STILL has the sixth-worst drug problem in the country. Worse, the Mountain ...
鈥淣o one's normal. It just looks that way from across the street.鈥� *** Until a few years ago, I enjoyed the title 鈥測oung.鈥� Sure, as the years ticked by, that word got stretched out, mumbled and modified, but the word hung on. I could use it with relative confidence that it moderately ...
Think about how romantic it was, as a young person in love, to walk holding your sweetheart鈥檚 hand. I remember how I thought it was so sweet to see an old couple holding hands. They must have been together for years and years, still in love and holding hands. Yesterday, so I didn鈥檛 have to ...
West Virginia is covered in habitat that suits animals who just don鈥檛 do well anywhere else. (The same might be true for some of the humans here, too.) But our abundant natural splendor still needs to be protected 鈥� and, in some cases, restored 鈥� to ensure those creatures have exactly ...
* Ninety-five classes of students have been inducted into the Order of the Golden Horseshoe by the West Virginia Department of Education. The most recent class includes 32 eighth-graders from the Mid-Ohio Valley. The honor goes to students who have demonstrated a master of Mountain State ...
