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High Points of the Valley

* Wood County Schools has made progress in the effort to keep students safer online by implementing the Cyber SWAT (Safety While Accessing Technology) initiative. This is just another part of the district’s efforts to fulfill the requirements of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, ...

Kiki's Corner: Don't waste time

Spring is finally here and with bright and sunny warm days, all we need is to take the time to be grateful. Being grateful daily brings peace, happiness, and positivity into life and we need to appreciate what we have. Our minds become calm and satisfied. Every morning we need to take the ...

Editor’s Notes: Keep the lights on HERE

I woke up the other day and walked down to the kitchen to find no light switches working and no time glowing from the clock on the microwave. I thought for a minute there was a power outage — happens a lot out there — but then the fog cleared and I remembered the lights had been on ...

Op-ed: Prepared, educated voters make for stronger elections

CHARLESTON — Election Day isn’t just a single day’s worth of activities, but the culmination of more than a year of preparation. My office has been working with West Virginia’s 55 county clerks since last summer to get ready for the 2026 midterm elections. It is our job to make sure ...

Letter to the Editor: Worth a mention

I would like to discuss the recent announcement by the WVSWA of the boys basketball Class A all-state teams and those players given honorable mention all-state. First of all, I want to congratulate the only two Wood County players honored on the all-state teams. Luke Anderson was selected ...