This week, a group from our church took a day trip to the Greenbrier Resort to see fall colors. We planned months ago to leave Charleston at 8:30 a.m. on Amtrak riding to White Sulphur Springs, arriving at noon and having lunch. Each person or couple could choose whatever they wanted to do ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! A chance of frost is in the forecast as the growing season winds its way down. Many gardeners perform a fall cleanup and plant a cover crop such as winter wheat in the garden space. However, vegetable gardening can be done year-round, so now is the ...
Think about the Ohio River and you are likely to think about the wide body of water flowing gently past Marietta, Belpre and Parkersburg as giant barges move materials up and down the river and boaters dart about on the Ohio and up the numerous tributaries. Adequate water in the Ohio River ...
As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of my primary responsibilities is ensuring that our government is responsibly funded so it remains open and working for the people we represent, including hardworking West Virginians. That’s why I’m deeply disappointed to see ...
Much like a lot of things these days, a speech given last week by West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty has become a Rorschach test depending on where you stand on the issue of public education versus “school choice.” During the state Board of Education’s regular ...
CALENDAR, NOT WEATHER, PROCLAIMS WINTER TO BE NEARLY HERE. It is winter on Prunty Avenue in Elizabeth; it is not particularly the cold weather that proclaims this; it is the date, December 9, that brings it to bear on leaf, man and the birds that fly upward. The leaf is prostrate on the ...
