I write this column not as a historian or a policy expert, but as someone who lives in a region that has been asked, again and again, to give more than it can. Each morning, when I look out from the ridges where I live in the Mid-Ohio Valley, I am reminded that the places we love are never ...
If you read my article on the MOV Parent page about parents and children and to me family and children are so important, I will continue to write more for our little miracles we brought in this world. Please speak kindly about your children when they can hear you. They like that and they also ...
In 2024, our high school soccer team started the season with only one win in our first seven games. We won our last seven games, outscoring opponents 31-1, and won the 2024 West Virginia boys state AA-A championship. After the first seven games, head coach Joe came to me and said, “Coach, I ...
With winter comes cold, and with cold comes ice. Ice on our roadways adds danger to our daily commutes, it’s something that northern drivers learn to deal with, but it still causes havoc with our lives when it closes schools and cancels events. Ice on the rivers though, is a different ...
GO SLOW Day before yesterday, one Johnson, from the country took on a load of “Lightening Whiskey,” and mounted his steed for a ride; but being unable to “go slow,” was handed over to the Recorder who fined him one dollar and costs for fast riding. “All Right On The Goose” ...
Well, last week was an interesting start to the 2026 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature. In my previous column, I told you about the comments from former state Senate Finance Committee chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, when he told attendees of the West Virginia Press ...
