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Look Back: Baseball season in the Mid-Ohio Valley

Parkersburg Is Spring Training Site Even though they may at times push themselves through a blanket of snow, “Easter flowers” have always been a harbinger of spring. And then, as if stirred by months of winter repose by the pretty yellow flowers, ballplayers, the knights of the diamond, ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: No kings, no exceptions

Easter is the most important day in the year for Christians. It commemorates the state torture and execution of a political protester and agitator, Jesus of Nazareth, more than 2,000 years ago — and the disappearance of his body two days later. No one could have anticipated that minor ...

Cracking the Code: How old is too old?

Did you ever wonder if you were too old to do something? I thought skiing was a young person’s sport until a ski trip to Colorado a few years ago. My daughter, Dannielle and I were skiing at Breckenridge. We took a break on top of the mountain for some hot chocolate and sat by a table full ...

Editor's Notes: Reforestation project has room to grow

If you drive long enough in West Virginia during the bare, gray winter months — when there is no foliage to obscure the view of mangled mountaintops and bare hillsides — you can’t help but notice humans and nature have taken their toll on huge swaths of land. Just a few days ago I was ...

Easter: Carry the day’s lessons with you

For Christians, Sunday is the holiest day of the year — Easter. It is a day of celebration; commemorating the resurrection of the Son. For millennia, this season has also been a time to celebrate the return of the sun, when our minds are on a kind of rebirth and living again in the ...

Letter to the Editor: Cooperation is the key

This letter is in response to the letter titled “Can I trust the police?” in the Sunday, March 15, newspaper. The author wrote she watched on TV as armed men broke into homes without judicial warrants, marched half-naked citizens down the streets to detention centers across the country ...