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AND THEN AGAIN……by Tamara Pettit

……………Hold onto your hats West Virginia!  Governor Jim Justice is once again predicting our State is going on a rocket ship ride and he can’t wait for the Legislative Session (set to begin Wednesday) to fuel the rockets.  Instead, Justice called the Legislature into a…

AND THEN AGAIN….. by Tamara Pettit

……’the Rest of the Story by Paul Harvey was a popular radio commentary when radio was king and television was still evolving. In his commentary, Harvey would describe an event or a person and then finish with a caveat that often changed the whole story. …

AND THEN AGAIN……. by Tamara Pettit

….I know everyone likes the week between Christmas and New Years because it allows “down time.”   That’s a time to take a few days off and relax in your Christmas jammies.  I’ve always struggled with this period because I don’t do “down time” well.  I…

YOUR IMAGINATION STATION with Miss Connie

   WE HAVE BEEN GRINCHED !!! Not ONCE, not TWICE, but THREE TIMES !!! Y’all know the Grinch was here for our Hometown Christmas party, right? Well, he came back on the last day of Storytime AND again on the last day ATA’s third grade…

AND THEN AGAIN…… by Tamara Pettit

……..Merry Christmas!   It’s Christmas week and I am ready for Christmas.   While my shopping list is short, (the grandchildren being of the age where money is the preferred gift) I  discovered last year during COVID that I no longer need trek to the mall to…

OUR HISTORY…..OUR HERITAGE by Bill Kiefer

To feed the four Blast Furnaces at its Weirton facility, National Steel Corporation had a Coke producing facility in Weirton. But…before I go any further with this column, I have to disclose that I have a personal interest here. I had no family member injured…

AND THEN AGAIN….. by Tamara Pettit

…..The New Year will bring significant changes in the 2022 election.  As a result of Hancock County’s population loss we will see the shifting of boundary lines for Congressional, House of Delegate, State Senate and perhaps Magisterial Districts. …….What does that mean to you?  ……In…

OUR HISTORY…..OUR HERITAGE by Bill Kiefer

As we enter the month of December, 2021, we approach the forty-ninth anniversary of one of the most tragic events ever to befall Hancock County. On December 15, 1972, there was a gigantic explosion at Weirton Steel when the new Coke Plant being built on…

AND THEN AGAIN…… by Tamara Pettit

…….We all have Christmas stories which warm our hearts.  Some of those stories belong to others and some are only known to us.  On Christmas day I always watch “A Christmas Story” because more than any other Christmas movie it makes me laugh and Raphie’s…