Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. Summer is here, if only for a few days. This second week of April feels more like June. It's been a beautiful week as we look forward to the growing season for 2026. I see many gardeners preparing the soil as we get closer to Mother's Day and the ...
When the great ocean liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic on April 15, 1912, it set off a media frenzy and a public obsession that still rings true today. The lack of reliable communications proved to be not only a factor that hindered recovery efforts, but also led ...
“I put the 'not' in astronaut!” *** I love teaching English to high schoolers: the pure creativity and potential. It is rewarding to see a child’s imagination unleashed and their mind freed. You can, at times, see the long-forgotten-dust be dislodged and the invisible-bindings ...
If you're reading this today, I am in George Town, the capital city of the Cayman Islands in the middle of my third Royal Caribbean cruise. I'm writing this column before shipping off from Port Canaveral in Florida along the Space Coast, a short drive away from the launchpad where the ...
“Public Money Flowing Like Water!” Sound familiar? This is part of a headline from a Parkersburg newspaper in August of 1934. While this particular headline was for an article about the beginnings of Arthurdale, Eleanor Roosevelt’s pet project near Kingwood, West Virginia, other New ...
Population loss is a problem plaguing almost all of the Mountain State. (The Eastern Panhandle and part of North Central West Virginia are not experiencing the same challenges as the rest of us). According to a report by The Daily Athenaeum — West Virginia University’s student-run ...
