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Backyard Gardener: The tomato hornworm – a big worm with a big appetite

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! We are experiencing one of the wettest Augusts in recent memory as rain totals this month are more than 8 inches in many areas of the valley. As the harvest of tomatoes, peppers, green beans, sweet corn and other vegetables continues, please contact ...

Reporter’s Notebook: Thoughts and prayers

I have covered many legislative committee meetings in my time under the golden dome, but I have never seen a worse outing for a new cabinet secretary than I did last week for Carl Ayers, the new secretary of the Department of Human Services. Ayers is only 23 days in, with his first day the ...

Look Back: Saying adieu

In the 1980s, when Dave Owen was editor of the Parkersburg Sentinel I approached him with the idea of reprinting items from early newspapers. He liked the idea and titled the column “Attic Clippings.” Perhaps some readers will recall the column. It appeared in the Sentinel for three or ...

Editor’s Notes: Not just food for thought

With any luck at all, most of you are reading this while I’m making my way as quickly as my legs will allow up Fort Boreman Hill. Or perhaps flailing my arms like a muppet aaallllllll the way back down it and Marrtown Road to West Virginia 95. (I watched someone do that once during a ...