Our high school soccer team is in Beckley this week playing in the West Virginia State Soccer Tournament. This is a challenging season with only three senior starters, a young inexperienced squad and a rough start with only one win and three ties in the first eight games. One loss was to a ...

Election Day is Tuesday, beginning at 6:30 a.m. and ending at 7:30 p.m. And it feels like a long way to get to this point. Keep in mind, the first person to announce for the 2024 elections was Republican Huntington businessman Chris Miller when he said he would run for governor all the way ...

The item in last week’s Look Back about early Parkersburg potter Dan Mercer, who came to Parkersburg in 1888 and worked for famed potter A.P. Donaghho continues: [Mercer] Used Crude Gauges Crude gauges are used to find proportions; a small flat square piece of cedar is used for smoothing ...

I’ll admit it, I’m one of those people who irritates others in a conversation by correcting them if they use outdated language to describe native or indigenous populations, or if they refer to anyone of European descent as having “discovered” the Americas (or as having been the ...

I like to consider myself a conservationist, or in other words, concerned about our environment and limited resources. However, if I am honest with myself, it is not always a top priority. Cost and convenience are more often a deciding factor for me than impact on the environment. I just do not ...

Five years ago, I was on the field at Shawnee Park playing in a Kanawha Valley adult soccer league. Running to a moving ball, I planted my left foot, kicked the ball with my right and was down on my back. On the bench, I iced the knee I twisted. Standing up, it suddenly felt like a severe ...