All the Easter celebrations have come and gone for another year…. I truly missed this year not being able to take part in carrying the cross at the station of cross in downtown Parkersburg. This year the Orthodox Easter fell on the same week as the Protestants celebrate whereas the Orthodox ...
Monday we flew back into Canton-Akron Airport from our family trip to Florida. Our rental car in Florida was a Toyota RAV4. We loved it. The agent at CAK offered a RAV4; I grabbed it. When I tried to start the vehicle, nothing happened. The lights on the dash came on but the engine wouldn’t ...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration calls our country’s substance abuse epidemic “a clear and present public health, public safety and national security threat.” No one needs to tell those living in our region that. We see it every day. And most of us wonder whether there is anything ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. Hope everyone enjoyed a blessed Easter with family and friends. Lots of Easter egg hunts occurred in the Valley last weekend. Backyard gardeners are getting excited to plant warm season vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers and squash. This week I ...
They say the state flower of West Virginia could be orange construction barrels, given the number of them that pop up as the weather allows for continued work on our Roads to Prosperity. Certainly, if you’ve tried traveling across the state recently, the delays and changes in route can be ...
Long before a family named Blennerhassett made an island in the middle of the Ohio River their home, people were living and working on the island a few miles downstream from what is today, Parkersburg. There is evidence that people were on the island for thousands of years. The Blennerhassett ...