……..If Mother’s Day serves a purpose (and I normally hate “Hallmark” created holidays) it’s to make us stop and think about what we cherish (or cherished) about our mother. …….My Mother was far from perfect, That’s what I loved about her. In a culture where…
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……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…
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…
Current Hydro, LLC has requested permission from the Hancock County Commission for current access to right-of-way areas within Hancock County to perform geological seismic survey and mapping; geotechnical investigation; survey for proposed easements; and pre-construction and construction of transmission towers and installation of power interconnection…
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…
…..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…
………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…
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…