The hardest person to teach is the one who knows everything, or thinks they do. One of the most important lunches of my life was at the WVU Towers cafeteria in the second semester of my freshman year. It was an unusually late lunch for me. The cafeteria was almost empty. I sat at a random ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! I am thankful we received some much-needed rain here in the valley. It is hard to believe Memorial Day is this Monday. A big thank you to all our veterans and active military service men and women keeping us safe and free. Each week I want to ...
We have a lot of parks in the area that offer great views of the Ohio, Muskingum and Little Kanawha rivers. Wide paved paths offer area residents opportunities to take a stroll under large shade trees that hug the banks of the river. Just watch where you step. You are not alone. The park ...
When it comes to elections, there are winners and there are losers. But I can’t help feeling like no one really won after last Tuesday’s Republican primary elections. Sure, individual candidates won and lost. But otherwise, the two factions within the West Virginia Republican Party — ...
In the previous Look Back, the existence of local, “so called” tunnels were shared. The last “tunnel” mentioned was at the Meldahl house in Washington Bottoms. Just across the Ohio River and a half mile or so upstream is the “Curtis” house. Built circa 1798 near the mouth of the ...
If higher gas prices have you considering alternate means of getting to work, maybe you’ve considered a bicycle. We’re not exactly the most bicycle-friendly region, but we’re getting better; and I stumbled across a Louisville Public Media piece this week that reminded me I could get from ...
