Spring in West Virginia is truly “almost heaven.” Life comes back to our forests, wildflowers scatter across the mountains, and spring rains send cold water rushing through our mountain streams and rivers. Unfortunately, many West Virginians don’t have reliable access to that clean, ...
If you’re a garden variety serial killer, you may have planned for a lot of contingencies when designing your murder basement. I’m not sure Andrew from Daisy Pearce’s “Dark is When the Devil Comes” could’ve conceived the unique challenges posed by his latest victim. Hazel is ...
I know so many of you ask me that I do get excited often, and yes, I do especially when I see that all my groups that I belong to succeed, such as the PHS Foundation. The foundation recently gave grant awards to teacher for 2026! I feel honored that we were able again this year to provide ...
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 ...
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 ...
