If you have to travel far enough up the Ohio River, you know there is a treasure moving between Sistersville and Fly that has served travelers for generations. Last week, the Sistersville Ferry tug suffered the consequences of recent flooding that left it high up on a rocky bank. That perch ...
Too many in our community know what it is like to face a cancer diagnosis and wonder where they will find the support they need. Fortunately, we live in a region where that support is everywhere — concentrated in efforts such as the Memorial Health Foundation’s annual fashion show, which ...
* Eligible patients in northwestern West Virginia will benefit from a Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation grant that will help Memorial Health System provide free breast cancer screening and mammography services. With the $80,000 received, Memorial will also be able raise awareness for early ...
“Public Money Flowing Like Water!” Sound familiar? This is part of a headline from a Parkersburg newspaper in August of 1934. While this particular headline was for an article about the beginnings of Arthurdale, Eleanor Roosevelt’s pet project near Kingwood, West Virginia, other New ...
If you're reading this today, I am in George Town, the capital city of the Cayman Islands in the middle of my third Royal Caribbean cruise. I'm writing this column before shipping off from Port Canaveral in Florida along the Space Coast, a short drive away from the launchpad where the ...
For the first eight years of my life, our family lived in a small rented house in Steubenville, Ohio. We had a tiny yard lacking any trees, so my mom would take my siblings and me to a local park. She would pack us a picnic lunch complete with a thermos of lemonade and we would ride the bus to ...
