I recently attended both the A/AA WV regional tennis tournament in Morgantown and A/AA state tennis tournament in Charleston. The format for these and the AAA tournaments changed this year to a Universal Tennis Ratings (UTR) driven format with every state player and team seeded by an ...
Great news! After several decades of waiting, our hometown’s officials are moving to the front burner plans for an activity and recreation center. Our city park, which was established in 1897 — over 125 years ago — is one of West Virginia’s most attractive and utilized urban parks. It ...
The column on the (May 18) meeting about Stonewall Jackson is good. A basic reason for learning history is to learn that societies and their standards change with time as a result of important events. Historical figures of the past should not be judged as if they lived in the society of ...
The most important business before President Biden and Congress is raising the debt ceiling. It was raised 3 times during the Trump administration with bipartisan support. The Republicans need to act responsibly – not push their own agenda instead of taking care of the nation’s ...
Each week, I look forward to reading the student editorial in Sunday’s edition. The student, teacher, or newspaper official (or perhaps all three) who came up with this idea should be commended. Not every one of these has been great, but each one has offered insights from a youthful point of ...
Headlines around the country have recently seemed to have an increase in a particular kind of violence: against strangers. I’m not referring to mass shootings or shootings with innocent bystander victims, though both deserve our attention as well. But instead, cases like Ralph Yarl in ...
