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Native Soil: Ancient earthworks worth celebrating

Local residents know something about the importance of celebrating and educating about the earthworks that enhanced this region’s landscape long before the Ohio Company showed up. But even if many of ours are no longer fully visible, there are still spots in the Buckeye State where Hopewell ...

Reporter's Notebook: The action of inaction

We can now put a bow on the now-completed 2026 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature now that Gov. Patrick Morrisey has acted on most of the 306 bills passed during the 60-day time period between Jan. 14 and March 14. Morrisey had 15 days, not counting Sundays, following the sine ...

High Points of the Valley

* First responders across the Mid-Ohio Valley got an unusual test last week when a vicious thunderstorm that included high winds, hail and lightning led to poor visibility, dangerous driving conditions and at least one fire. A Reno Volunteer Fire Department crew was tending to downed power ...

Look Back: Baseball season in the Mid-Ohio Valley

Parkersburg Is Spring Training Site Even though they may at times push themselves through a blanket of snow, “Easter flowers” have always been a harbinger of spring. And then, as if stirred by months of winter repose by the pretty yellow flowers, ballplayers, the knights of the diamond, ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: No kings, no exceptions

Easter is the most important day in the year for Christians. It commemorates the state torture and execution of a political protester and agitator, Jesus of Nazareth, more than 2,000 years ago — and the disappearance of his body two days later. No one could have anticipated that minor ...

Cracking the Code: How old is too old?

Did you ever wonder if you were too old to do something? I thought skiing was a young person’s sport until a ski trip to Colorado a few years ago. My daughter, Dannielle and I were skiing at Breckenridge. We took a break on top of the mountain for some hot chocolate and sat by a table full ...