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AND THEN AGAIN……..by Tamara Pettit

……This week we present to you profiles of the State Senate candidates. In past weeks we’ve featured profiles of the locally contested races and while this is the primary, it is the deciding election as to who will hold the office. No Democratic candidates have…

AND THEN AGAIN……BY TAMARA PETTIT

The nightmare. I had it again last night. I wake up in a cold sweat shaking. It has been my most prevalent dreams for many years, but it’s always the same dream I never seem to resolve. It takes place in 1965 during the Viet…

AND THEN AGAIN……..by Tamara Pettit

FLOOD…..It’s Sunday and the sun is shining and I’m sitting looking out my window in Veteran’s Blvd. and a flood seems a million miles away. But, on Friday morning when I drove down to my late sister’s house to check where the water was the…

AND THEN AGAIN……by Tamara Pettit

…..The Bill which wiped out some of the exemptions for childhood vaccines passed on the last day of the session.  Was amended in the Senate to remove the exemption for a parent simply writing a letter.  The Chairman of the Senate Health & Human Resource…

AND THEN AGAIN……..by Tamara Pettit

………We all remember where we were when the news came down that National Steel was going to divest Weirton Steel and leave us with only 900 employees.  That was when there was a mighty tin can and Weirton Steel was the largest employer in the…

AND THEN AGAIN………..by Tamara Pettit

The filing period is over for the 2024 election and the candidates are off and running.   Those candidates who have competition that is…..and that was reduced by one race this week.  Jon Phillips, a former Weirton policeman, had filed to run against incumbent Ralph Fletcher…

AND, THEN AGAIN………………..by Tamara Pettit

Mr. Ron Vechis Pres & CEO CITIBANK COSTCO PBOX 790046  St. Louis, MO 63179 Dear Sir: I write to address your monthly correspondence from Citicard Costco to my late husband, William Kiefer, regarding his  delinquent membership fee and now the late charges on that.    By…

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.Many years ago when I worked at THE COURIER I did a monthly column entitled ‘HOMETOWN HEARTBEAT’.  Schmaltzy, huh?  But, not to me!  I wrote about individuals whom I viewed as the very heartbeat of a small town. These individuals had their  on the pulse…