Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. Summer is here, if only for a few days. This second week of April feels more like June. It's been a beautiful week as we look forward to the growing season for 2026. I see many gardeners preparing the soil as we get closer to Mother's Day and the ...
Student leaders give us hope that a new generation is ready to take up the torch, even if some of them may need to wait a few more years to do so. Two in Ritchie County did such a remarkable job organizing student-led efforts to register members of their senior class to vote that they were ...
“I put the 'not' in astronaut!” *** I love teaching English to high schoolers: the pure creativity and potential. It is rewarding to see a child’s imagination unleashed and their mind freed. You can, at times, see the long-forgotten-dust be dislodged and the invisible-bindings ...
When the great ocean liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic on April 15, 1912, it set off a media frenzy and a public obsession that still rings true today. The lack of reliable communications proved to be not only a factor that hindered recovery efforts, but also led ...
Eight years ago, then-Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a lawsuit against DuPont, which accused the company of knowingly releasing “forever chemicals” into the Ohio River. Though a settlement was reached back in 2023, DeWine was not able to announce distribution of the $65 million ...
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 ...
