President Trump’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) initiative coupled with our crippling national debt is earth-shaking. Having worked in and around the federal government for over 35 years, I have witnessed first hand the fraud, waste and abuse. Every federal supervisor knows the ...

It has been a learning experience for me since my sister and her ex-husband were involved in an auto accident in Myrtle Beach last Aug. 28, one in which he did not survive. Both of them had been suffering from some dementia and inability to remember, especially short-term things. After being ...

What a letter writer of March 30 says about President Trump’s attack on the judiciary is correct for the most part. Trump’s claim that elements of the judiciary were biased against him and for the Biden family may have been true to a certain extent, but are discredited by the massive ...

With Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, winning in the electoral college and the popular vote, both by a large margin and the Republicans maintaining control of the House and regaining control of the Senate, the Democrats are struggling for relevancy. The American people know why ...

On March 1, the 25th annual Empty Bowls fundraising luncheon had its most successful year ever raising funds for area food pantries to help alleviate food insecurities in the Mid-Ohio Valley. All net proceeds go to the pantries. The Empty Bowls Committee would like to thank the many people and ...

The article in The Parkersburg News on Sunday, March 16, 2025, written to celebrate United Bank’s 186th anniversary with the Shamrock tradition prompted me to share our family’s shamrock tradition. Our tradition began in 1955. My older brother and sister attended Saint Francis Xavier ...