My first brush with the mess that has been made of downtown Wheeling was the evening before Thanksgiving, when I decided (as it seemed so many other former Wheeling residents had done just before the holiday) to go to a Wheeling Nailers hockey game. Getting to the arena, it was clear there was ...

As I write this column, the first week in December, the COP28 conference is underway in Dubai. This event is, in part, a follow-up to a treaty that the U.S. and 194 other nations signed in 2015, the Paris Climate Accords. Unfortunately, recent climate news is not good. The 2023 State of the ...

I picked up “Girl in the Cellar” intrigued by Natascha Kampusch’s escape story after she was held captive for eight years. I had never heard of Natascha and didn’t know what happened, but after finishing the book written by Allan Hall and Michael Leidig, I had mixed feelings. I was ...

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” as the song goes but for sure our city started looking like Christmas way before Thanksgiving. This is early December and you can already see many outdoor Christmas homes decorated already possibly due to the nice weather we have had. Of ...

Last weekend we hosted our annual Winterfest event at Bicentennial Park in downtown Parkersburg. A great crowd filled the park, participating in fun holiday activities and live performances from YoYo Elite Baton, P.A.C.E., the Southern Belles and the Phoenix Twirlers. Thank you to all the ...

“Judge not lest ye be judged.” (Matthew 7:1) Jesus said this over 2,000 years ago. In other words, don’t judge or you will be judged. Jesus went on to say, how you judge others is how you will be judged. Humans have struggled with this for thousands of years. We still do. It is easy to ...