Local residents turn out better on Election Day than do those in most other parts of our states. While the voter turnout percentage for West Virginia on Nov. 5 was 63.35%, according to the Secretary of State’s office, turnout in Wood County was 67.19%. And while unofficial turnout in Ohio on ...
The American Red Cross of the Ohio River Valley is looking for some help from its “Friends” in another plea to get potential donors to step away from their busy schedules to roll up their sleeves. As a celebration of 30 years since the start of the beloved sitcom “Friends,” the Red ...
Across West Virginia, boards of education are showing students where their priorities lie — and the rest of the country can see it, too. Movement to address chronically low performance — bottom of the barrel in a significant number of categories for so many years that it has become a ...
Chaotic. Is there a better term right now to describe the situation with high school sports in West Virginia, where the start — and the matchups — of both the football playoffs and the small-school volleyball tournament remain in doubt? Who would have imagined that, in 2024, local ...
It’s hard here in West Virginia to understand how states such as Arizona and Nevada, three days after the polls officially closed, still were counting votes. Viewing the process from afar, it appears those states lack good, solid leadership when it comes to running their ...
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 106 years ago, the hostilities of World War I came (for the most part) to an end. But though it was billed as the war to end all wars, American troops have continued to put their lives on the line for the rest of us and the world ...
