No longer the precursor to the start of the school year for most students, Labor Day weekend now serves as the first three-day weekend break. Kids and their parents get one more chance to take it a bit easy before the grind of the fall semester and all its activities starts to take its ...
Judges in West Virginia get a front-row seat to the mess that is our foster care system, and the damage it is doing to children. When they speak publicly about what they see — when they pull back the curtain and express concerns about what is happening to our most vulnerable kids — fragile ...
It’s an old punchline, but one rooted in truth. West Virginia is the butt of jokes about teeth, dentistry and oral health because we consistently rank at or near the bottom of nearly every data set that is studied on the subject. Access and affordability are a big part of the problem; as ...
Technology can be a wonderful thing — when it is working properly and we understand it. Though it doesn’t always deliver on its promises, it seems one improvement in the technology in the Hope Scholarship Program IS delivering what taxpayers demand. State Treasurer Larry Pack, also ...
Those who grew up and learned to drive in West Virginia know there is a certain set of skills acquired on those unlined and winding backroads … in winter. Frankly, we learn how to drive in ways and in places that make visitors gasp. (Sit us in gridlocked metro traffic for an hour or two in ...
* Jefferson Elementary Center students got rewarded last week for their summer reading during the Golden Ticket Book Fair, which is in its third year. Students earned golden tickets for books they read over the summer and at fairs throughout Wood County Schools where they were able to cash ...
