October 27, 2019, on the soccer field in our adult league. Early in the second half, I ran up on a slow-moving ball, planted my left foot, kicked it with my right and suddenly my left knee failed. I was on my back. The trainer checked my knee. “You’re done for the day. Sit down. Ice it” ...

When I was a child, my dad planted a sweet gum tree in our Florida backyard. The tree grew quickly in the sandy soil and became a great tree to climb. The many branches provided easy-to-reach “rungs” on which I could climb higher than the house. Decades later I had my own house in western ...

THAT FISHNIC Editor Fish Department: Ralph Covert, Rev. A.D. Carlile and E.F. Reifsnyder, three very acute anglers, left this city last Monday afternoon on a fishing excursion up the beautiful Kanawha. They pitched their tents at an ancient village named Leachtown, on the right bank. There ...

I woke up the other day and walked down to the kitchen to find no light switches working and no time glowing from the clock on the microwave. I thought for a minute there was a power outage — happens a lot out there — but then the fog cleared and I remembered the lights had been on ...

I was talking with a farmer in March and a few things about that conversation stuck out, which I wanted to share more broadly. 1. Did you know that there is a cherry farm in New Zealand which is 100% electric, tractors included? Let me introduce you to Forest Lodge Orchard ...

CHARLESTON — Election Day isn’t just a single day’s worth of activities, but the culmination of more than a year of preparation. My office has been working with West Virginia’s 55 county clerks since last summer to get ready for the 2026 midterm elections. It is our job to make sure ...