On Feb. 28, the 26th annual Empty Bowls fundraising event had a highly successful year collecting funds for area food pantries to help alleviate food insecurities in the Mid-Ohio Valley. All net proceeds go to the pantries. The Empty Bowls Committee thanks all who made this year’s event a ...
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action (MOVCA) was proud to take part for the first time this year in the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation’s Give Local MOV annual day of giving. Our organization received $8,655 from 22 donors to whom we express our deepest and most sincere gratitude and ...
Pretty much all the colleges are done for this year. It is hard to believe that the high school season is almost over and all our local high school seniors will be graduating next week. There is so much that goes on before and after the graduation, so much preparation for the family and of ...
The U.S. Constitution, Article V, reads in part, “The Congress whenever two-thirds shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in ...
The hardest person to teach is the one who knows everything, or thinks they do. One of the most important lunches of my life was at the WVU Towers cafeteria in the second semester of my freshman year. It was an unusually late lunch for me. The cafeteria was almost empty. I sat at a random ...
I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking about Memorial Day as a happy occasion. There will be an extra day off work; swimming pools will open; there will be good food, parades … festive things. It’s the unofficial start of summer. Students are graduating high school or college and moving on ...
