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Opinion

Monster Mash is back in Downtown PKB

Local columns

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 ...

Student Loans: Policy makers must lend support

Editorials

Among the concerns for some of those worried about their finances amid a federal government shutdown, continued increasing inflation, high interest rates and an unsteady jobs market, is the burden of student loan repayment. In West Virginia, that burden is especially heavy. According to ...

High Points of the Valley

Editorials

* Baseball buddies — current and former Parkersburg South High School baseball players — helped athletes compete during the third Miracle League of the Mid-Ohio Valley demonstration game held Oct. 4. The organization said it had its largest number of participants yet, with nearly two dozen ...

Look Back: Hunting, fishing a blast

Local columns

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 ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: WVU overdue for a general manager

Local columns

In just the span of the last few years the landscape of college athletics has dramatically changed, impacting football more than any other sport. Letter of intent day for high school recruits once was the most significant milestone of the year when it came to building a football program. The ...

Reporter’s Notebook: To your health!

Local columns

Last week, I covered the final two days of permanent injunction hearings to block a June directive from the West Virginia Board of Education to county boards of education to continue to enforce the state’s compulsory vaccine law and not accept religious exemptions approved by the Department ...