I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since our family opened the first Chick-fil-A at the Grand Central Mall. I remember we had the Olympic Deli on Murdoch Avenue for 18 years, and we decided to retire. But not too long after that, we received a call from the Grand Central Mall to open ...
Fourth grade became a rough year for me when “Tex”, a big sixth-grader moved in. I was a scrawny fourth-grader. Tex was a bully who made me and my friends’ lives miserable. None of us told our teachers or parents. We were afraid of what Tex would do to us. One day walking home from ...
On Jan. 25, 1786, Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper started promoting the idea of forming the Ohio Company in order to settle land near the Muskingum River. The information appeared in “public prints” and encouraged those interested in being shareholders in the plan to meet at the Bunch of ...
Much as I predicted last week, the Hope Scholarship educational voucher program remains intact for the next fiscal year. Instead of recommending its first originating bill to reform the Hope program, the House Finance Committee recommended a new originating bill that only changed the payment ...
We all have a neighborhood where we live, but we also have one where we work For the last quarter century, my work neighborhood has been a small section of downtown Parkersburg. Even during that short period, the area between Fifth and Sixth streets and Ann and Markets streets has seen a ...
In the previous Look Back, myself and a friend, Howard Bailey, made a trip to Creston, located on the Little Kanawha River in Calhoun County. He reviving memories of when his father rode log rafts from there to the mill at Nicolette; me trying to record the history that Howard ...
