Last Friday we all welcomed in the first day of summer along with all that summer and good weather brings. Now is the time for gardening, planning summer vacations, swimming, and many outdoor activities such as painting your house and more. Of course it also becomes a major problem when the ...
A few years ago, I did an interview for the University of Colorado student radio station. They wanted to know more about energy, especially gas and oil. In the middle of the interview, the host stops me and says, “Did you hear what he just said, dear friends?” I’m thinking, Now what! ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone has survived the sweltering heat of this week in late June. I noticed lots of hay being baled this week and backyard gardeners catching up on important work. There is time to make another planting of sweet corn and cucumbers, in ...
Thousands of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic descended on Marietta in May of 1903 to reflect on their service and honor those who had died in the Civil War. Decades after the north and the south reunited, veterans of the conflict were still gathering from time to time to ...
At what point does one quit trying to keep winning the last political party primary? At one point does one stop trying to play to the perceived whims of a base and simply just govern? Gov. Patrick Morrisey won the 2024 GOP primary with 33.3% of the vote in a six-person primary. Albeit ...
Lemmons [Lemon] Family Oil Pioneers By Cordelia Moellendick of the Parkersburg News staff The Lemmons, seven bearded giants, played a very important role in bringing to light the chief agency in the rapid development of this area more than a century ago. [This was written in 1953]. A father ...
