West Virginia is a small state, and state government is not large, so the longer you cover certain politicians, the more chances you have to see the human side of the people you cover and even become friends. That’s the way it was with Tim Armstead, the late justice of the West Virginia ...
The early history of Belleville by Minnie Kendall Lowther, continues Another Colony Here In the spring of 1785, a party of hunters and trappers originally from Pennsylvania, who had been sojourning in the Wheeling vicinity, moved on to this section and took possession of an old abandoned ...
When Neal Brown was let go after the 2024 season most WVU football fans recognized that the first year in the transition to a new coaching staff would have some bumps in the road. But being dominated by a Mid-American Conference football opponent is not what we had in mind. This was beyond ...
While plenty of politicians claim they are pursuing the agendas they do because they want to protect children, organizations such as the North Star Child Advocacy Center are actually doing just that. And in the first half of 2025, they are seeing an increase in the need for their work. Serving ...
Now that we are firmly into September, the pace at the newspapers quickens a little while we get ready for everything we’ve got planned for the next several months. (Bearing in mind, of course, that most of the work we do is unplanned or it wouldn’t exactly be news, now, would it?) In ...
Washington County takes in the second most amount of fracking waste fluid by county in the state. There are 17 Class Il fracking wastewater injection wells in the county — four of them within three miles of the city of Marietta and multiple aquifers that provide drinking water to over 30,000 ...