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Beds: Nonprofits meeting an unfortunate need

More than one statewide effort is focusing on a problem most of us did not fully grasp until recently. Too many Mountain State children do not have a bed, crib or bassinet of their own to sleep in each night. The West Virginia State Hospital Initiative is a nonprofit that is not only ...

Shameful: Vandals put officals in no-win situation

Too many in our communities have grown addicted to harassing public officials and public workers for both not doing enough with our money AND spending too much of it. Meanwhile, there is an element of troublemaker that just wants to cause problems for all sides. In Belpre, city officials ...

Support: More funding needed for victims of violence

The West Virginia Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program has provided grant funding for some important efforts in the state. More than $700,000 will be distributed to programs ranging from the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc., which ...

High Points of the Valley

* What a wonderful stretch it has been for entertainment and events in the Mid-Ohio Valley, as Pride Fest, Taste of Parkersburg, Marietta’s Second Sunday, Parkersburg’s Meet Me on Market, the Multi-Cultural Festival, the West Virginia Day celebration on Blennerhassett Island, Marietta Main ...

Look Back: Drive-In experience continues

Drive-ins usually showed two features plus a cartoon. With few exceptions, once darkness arrived the movie would begin, as the ads say, “come rain or shine.” A memorable experience of going to a drive-in was that car windows were usually left down, except for the one on which the speaker ...

Reporter's Notebook: Interim gripes

Last week’s legislative interim meetings were a bit of a let down for the press and the general public, and perhaps lawmakers themselves, though that is unclear. It was a traveling interim set among the mountains of Tucker County at Canaan Valley Resort State Park. Sunday and Tuesday ...