Growing up in Pittsburgh, I didn’t know much about West Virginia until I became a student at WVU in the 1970s. The narrative I heard at WVU was, West Virginia is a poor state. We have a lot of coal. It is owned by out of state companies. We get coal jobs but out of state people make the ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! The first heavy frost for the area was predicted Thursday night as temperatures might dip to 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Hopefully, backyard gardeners covered any tender annual or warm season vegetables or flowers they want to keep going. A word of ...
I remember years ago growing up we were taught, and we were instructed from our parents, what to do, how to respect elders, to be considerate to others and to care for the less fortunate etc. Bringing a child into this world is a responsibility and it is up to us parents to make sure those ...
Long before there was a school district named Fort Frye there was a fort named Fort Frye. Same location, just different points in history. Shortly after members of the Ohio Company set up shop in Marietta in 1788 they began to notice the abundance of flat boats floating right past the new ...
Mark your calendar and make sure you wear your spookiest costume to Monster Mash from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the green space beside Discovery World at 900 Market St. The event returns as a highlight of Parkersburg’s autumn calendar and promises to be a safe, family friendly Halloween ...
Don’t Be A Game Hog Only a few days intervene before the opening of the bird hunting season in West Virginia, and from all reports a rich treat awaits those who enjoy the sport, but the State Journal desires to say a word to the man with the gun and the dog, and that is, don’t be a ...
