In the previous Look Back, an early Wood County dairy and the beginning of rules to protect the milk consumer were shared. The requirement of pasteurization in 1950 caused many small dairies to “get out” or at least alter their business methods. The story that first appeared in the ...
I took a friend on a little adventure this weekend. I’d been promising her I’d find a restaurant that served food like what she was used to back home, and the opportunity finally presented itself. So we found ourselves in a traditional German beer tavern a couple of hours away from here ...
Last fall I received a phone call from someone in Parkersburg who reported that she witnessed brine waste (production waste from high-pressure hydraulic fracturing, i.e., fracking) being transported from railway freight cars in Parkersburg to trucks, which were taking the waste to the Deep ...
The entire judicial career of John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), has been dedicated to the undoing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Roberts’s personal vendetta against the legislation that codified an end to Jim Crow has now reached its zenith ...
In West Virginia, we take pride in the things we build. The schools where our children learn. The hospitals that care for our families. The roads, bridges and public buildings that serve our communities every day. Many of these structures share one thing in common: They were built by skilled ...
Entering another busy season of the year – spring, my favorite season. There’s so much going on this time of the year. School is almost over. Graduations of middle school, high school, college are close. With the upcoming weather to be so beautiful, people are planning weddings, family ...
