I cannot tell you how happy I was to be able to start wearing my pullovers and breaking out the light jackets. Fall is finally here, and with that comes the countdown to the November general election. Looking at the calendar, we’re less than 37 days away from Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. ...
* The Boys and Girls Club of Parkersburg has once again earned the support of the Taco Bell Foundation, through its community grant program. This is the third year the club has received grant funding from the program to support workforce readiness programs for teens. “We’re so grateful for ...
Any school kid growing up in the 1960s was sure to know about the legend of Johnny Appleseed. The barefoot man walked around the country planting apple seeds as he went. The true story of John Chapman and his tie to Marietta and the apple industry in Ohio is a little more complicated than ...
In a recent letter titled “Stop the Bleeding” a local resident claimed that America’s current debt of $40 trillion is “mostly on Republicans” and cited Reagan, Bush and Trump as the worst culprits. Setting aside for a moment the gross oversimplification of this inflammatory ...
An editorial cartoon image drawn by conservative Christian cartoon editorialist Gary Varvel was recently printed in an edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. The drawing featured four panels of the character Chicken Little (of “the sky is falling!” fame). From left to right, the ...
Fall is here, or should I say finally here? Not sure what I would rather have: the extremely hot days or the horrible rainstorms, thundering and floods, plus all the water damages that so many people had in their homes. A few days ago, as we were driving through Athens, Ohio (not Athens, ...
