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With Connie & Shauna       So, I promised to tell you all about our TALES week. What a week of fun we had, telling TALES.  We started our week by learning the difference in “tattling” and telling when something happens. We made tattletale tongues and…

AND THEN AGAIN by Tamara Pettit

…..The West Virginia Lottery Annual report showed an overall profit for the lottery.  Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort, however, did not fare so well in the year of the pandemic showing a loss of $9.2 million according to WV Metro News.   Mardis Gras Casino in…

Our History & Our Heritage by Bill Kiefer

I am getting a little tired of playing who was who in the Revolutionary War, and what was named after them. If you have been reading this you probably are tired of it too. On the other hand there is, or was, a Thaddeus Kosciuszko…

Our History & Our Heritage by Bill Kiefer

Okay Mr. Kiefer, master digresser let’s get back on topic. We started off with how did some of our local places not named “Washington, Jefferson, Franklin or Adams” get their names, in the sense that they may have been derived from Revolutionary War leaders? In…

Reading Nook by Kirsten Pierce

We hope you are enjoying the summer as much as we are. It’s so heartwarming to see our young readers bring their reading logs in to be checked off and receive their prizes. The competition ends on August 31st so make sure you have your…

AND THEN AGAIN by Tamara Pettit

……Can you or should you wear two hats when you are an elected official?  Two  elected officials doing so on a county and municipal level have raised concern.   When Weirton City Manager Joe Dibartolomeo voiced a variety of concerns to Council prior to his resignation,…

REFLECTIONS by Jeremy Alger

I’m sure that you’ve noticed this trend in the news. Shootings! Shootings every week for the last few months. There has been some American killed by gun violence so frequently lately that you have to scroll down the news websites now to find these things…

OUR HISTORY & OUR HERITAGE by Bill Kiefer

Over the Independence Day Holiday weekend I took the opportunity to sample a number of the shows dealing with the history of the United States. A personal high light was watching the entire 1993 production of Gettysburg, an ambitious project as a result of the…

AND THEN AGAIN by Tamara Pettit

……While I am pleased to see the West Virginia Derby return this year at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort, I am really sad about fans being charged an entrance fee just to watch the days’ race card.     Will horsemen who enter horses in the race…