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Kiki’s Corner: A good hare day ahead for Easter Parade

We cordially invite you to participate in the 16th annual Mid-Ohio Valley Easter Parade at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 21, in downtown Parkersburg. The theme is “Legos: Building on Jesus.” The parade will be held rain or shine. Lineup will begin at noon. The only entrance for the parade ...

Cracking the Code: Building relationships; friends first, then food

The Iran war hit close to home. I literally just got off a Zoom call with Dasn, a friend and business owner from Oman. They had a drone strike this morning from Iran that hit outside his factory and killed two people. He was emotional, “Oman is a peaceful country. We are friends with ...

The Way I See It: Look up! There may be astronauts over your house

If you are able to pull yourself from the multitude of screens in your home, you may be able to see a truly out of this world show pass directly over your home. The International Space Station is a huge space outpost that has been orbiting the earth since 1998. Weighing nearly a million ...

Op-ed: What does Marietta look like without injection wells?

Let’s pretend there’s a giant switch we could flip that would shut down all the injection wells in Southeast Ohio. Environmental activists will, of course, jump for joy. Susan Vessels might even calm down for a second. But what does it really mean? It’s a thought experiment that needs ...

Recently, my friend, Lori, who is 80, required more care than her husband, Shawn, also 80, could provide at home. At that point in life, they owned money savings of about $200,000, their jointly owned home, a car, and two rental houses. Shawn had heard (correctly) that they would have to pay ...

Reporter’s Notebook: A week of firsts

There are many firsts for me this legislative session. One of them has been the budget bill moving earlier than I or many other experienced Capitol dwellers have ever seen it move. The state Senate and House of Delegates came to a compromise on the budget bill on day 51. This was done for the ...