If you wear glasses or contacts as an adult, do you remember how old you were when you first started wearing corrective lenses, and how much it changed your life? For some kids, getting glasses means the difference between sitting in the front row and still not catching everything the teacher ...
* There’s something special about high school sports programs in the Mid-Ohio Valley — that’s no secret. But the Wood County Board of Education had an opportunity last week to recognize the accomplishments of local teams who live up to the nearly impossible high precedent that has been ...
State Treasurer Larry Pack regularly announces instances of unclaimed property funds being returned to West Virginians. The idea surely is to inspire more people to check whether there is money owed to them, as the state is sitting on more than $536 million that should be in someone else’s ...
West Virginia is considered to be the fourth “hungriest” state by organizations such as Feeding America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture studying food insecurity in this country. Certainly, Appalachia is hit hard. The food insecurity rate in southeast Ohio is 17.4%, though some ...
There are nearly 6,000 children in foster care in West Virginia. Approximately one-third of them are between the ages of 13 and 17. These children are among our most vulnerable populations, and face challenges most of the rest of us are simply incapable of understanding. But they do have ...
There is still what to many West Virginians is an unfathomable amount of money to be spent out of the money entrusted to the West Virginia First Foundation. Nearly $40 million has already been handed out in grants. Now the foundation is planning to spend another $1.5 million to figure out what ...
