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MOV Parent: Lessons to remember in the new year

As it gets closer to saying goodbye to the year 2025, this is the perfect time to teach our children some new things to follow in 2026. Build their confidence. Teach problem-solving skills. Teach them emotional intelligence. Show them kindness and empathy. Also encourage them to help ...

The Way I See It: Christmas cookies can be a minefield of flavors

Well, it’s that time of year. Cookies start appearing everywhere, on your desk, in your mailbox, in trays all over the place. So many cookies, so many options. All (almost) Christmas cookies look delicious. They just don’t always taste that way, at least for me. Call me Ebenezer Cookie ...

Look Back: An outing to New England (Wood County)

Some Observation of a Correspondent Down the River. PARKERSBURG, July 8 – I boarded the good steamer Harry D. Knox Saturday afternoon for a little trip down the Ohio. I put myself under the care of the genial Capt. Ritchie, who, by the way, is one of the most accommodating commanders on the ...

Editor’s Notes: Great educational expectations

Have you had to help an elementary or middle school student with homework lately? Wow, things have changed. And no, I’m not talking about new math or anything like that. I think maybe I have changed. School work being completed by not-yet-teenagers is not as easy for me as it used to ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: COP 30 – not all the news was bad

If you paid any attention at all to COP 30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference held last month in Belem, Brazil, you probably know about what didn’t happen: the United States refused to send an official delegation, petro-states led by Saudi Arabia and Russia fought to protect their ...