I am writing to share something that moved me deeply. As someone living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, or CMT, I know firsthand how few people have ever heard of it. Even in our own community, most people have no idea what CMT is or the daily struggles that come with it. That is why ...
What a shame that the City (and the County) didn’t devise a plan for residents in the outskirts of Parkersburg to continue to recycle. Instead, we hear of the abrupt closing of that very nice recycling center (near the Memorial Bridge) on May 1, 2026. As I think about how my husband and ...
The United States is currently drifting into a fiscal minefield with no clear map and a dwindling supply of luck. As the national debt accelerates past the $34 trillion mark, the conversation in Washington has devolved into a predictable cycle of partisan finger-pointing and temporary patches. ...
Many of you know me as the guitar man who performs the marketing for a local pizza company on Division Street, on the south side of Parkersburg. In the recent past, during the holiday season; I learned that a local musician had written a song celebrating my work as a street marketer for our ...
Instead of a ballroom for an elderly baby, we need clean water and air for all the people in this country. We need gun laws to protect our future voting and working citizens as they attend private and public schools. Instead of a ballroom for a felon, we need healthcare and housing for our ...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Though we are past the deadline for publishing election-related letters to the editor, we are publishing this one because our delay in receiving it was a technical problem here in the newsroom, rather than the author missing the deadline.) *** While I watched someone ...
