If you wear glasses or contacts as an adult, do you remember how old you were when you first started wearing corrective lenses, and how much it changed your life? For some kids, getting glasses means the difference between sitting in the front row and still not catching everything the teacher ...
The two leaders of the West Virginia Legislature came under scrutiny last week for different issues, though one is being more transparent than the other one. First, my friend Brad McElhinny with West Virginia MetroNews reported last week that a political action committee connected to Senate ...
A Bit of History The growth of the Young Men’s Christian Association in this city has been remarkable. It was organized in August last with seven members; last October it had 17 members; in November 70 members, and now its membership is more than 230 and rapidly increasing. The Gymnasium ...
* There’s something special about high school sports programs in the Mid-Ohio Valley — that’s no secret. But the Wood County Board of Education had an opportunity last week to recognize the accomplishments of local teams who live up to the nearly impossible high precedent that has been ...
Why does this keep happening? In 1972 Nixon campaigned to end the Vietnam War in southeast Asia, then he extended it when he was re-elected. In 2024, Trump ran on “No More Forever Wars,” and when he was re-elected he started another war in the ever turbulent mid-east. Why not use our ...
Today’s Socialist Democratic Party maintains the U.S. is not at war with Iran and that President Trump and Israel have no justification for bombing Iran. The justification is because Iran has been at war with the U.S. since 1979, when Iranian radicals overthrew the Iranian government, ...
