We hope everyone is keeping track of all the books they’re reading. We will collect everyone’s reading logs by August 31st and announce our grand prize winners September 1st. There are some really great prizes this year so make sure you are reading! Swaney…
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…
…..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…
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…
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…
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…
……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,…
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…
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…