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Editor’s Notes: Making Christmas memories together

You know the feeling of barreling headlong toward Christmas and thinking of all you have to get done combined with all you are looking forward to? As it always does, everything either gets done or wasn’t important to begin with. And though it may have been that you were looking forward to a ...

Kiki’s Corner: Gearing up for New Year’s

Well, how was your Christmas? Did you enjoy your family along with the big Christmas meal? Did you go to visit relatives and friends, or did you have everyone at your house? Did everyone love your gifts, and did you receive some nice gifts? If you are like me, I’m not concerned about what I ...

Cracking the Code: Dream high in 2026! What’s yours?

This week I saw Ryan, one of my former high school soccer players for the first time in years. Ryan played at the turn of the century on our first three teams to win regional championships and go to the West Virginia State Soccer Tournament. One of those teams played Morgantown High for the ...

Santa will come, he always will

And finally it’s Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia ...

The Way I See It: Artemis II trail was blazed in 1968 by Apollo 8

Some time next year Artemis II will blast off and carry a crew of four on a shakedown cruise to the moon. They will not land but will spend 10 days testing the systems needed to return humans to the surface. The trip will be a modernized version of a mission flown in 1968 that took three ...