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Finding reality through people

What were you doing this week four years ago right before we went into pandemic lockdown? Lynnda and I attended the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce Dinner where Shale Crescent USA had an exhibit booth. On Monday, we attended the chamber’s 109th annual dinner. Attendance is back to normal. ...

Life Through the Lens: Hollywood’s greatest love story turns 20

“It would be different if we could just give it another go-round.” *** You know what’s hard? Relationships. You know why we are here, why we are breathing, why we are eating and pooping and building and moving? Relationships. Life is all about relationships – fundamentally and ...

Reporter’s Notebook: Charleston claw marks

A poor explanation of a federal obligation led to a panic last week that the state was going to have to give back $465 million to the U.S. Department of Education. Even the word “clawback” was used, but as it turns out, it’s not really a clawback at all, at least in the short term. But ...

Look Back: How it was with small pox in 1903

Editor Sentinel: Dear Sir, In the summer of 1903 when I was six, our family had small pox. Compared to what actually happened to us, physically and emotionally, that little account in a recent Sunday News sounds like Sesame Street. We lived on the south side of 9 1/2 street [in Parkersburg] ...

A return is possible

I started to write about an encounter I had last week with a woman who was moving from Syracuse, N.Y., to northern Ohio, who chatted with me briefly while we were waiting for our food at a restaurant. When I told her I was from West Virginia, she froze. Then she carefully rearranged her face ...

School of Thought: Understanding conspiracies

STUDENT INTRO: School of Thought was written by Parkersburg South High School senior Joseph Parsons. When he isn’t contemplating conspiracy theories, he enjoys reading graphic novels, is an avid Weezer fan and likes listening to other rock, rap, and electronic music and spending time playing ...