……The infusion of funds from the American Rescue Act into our county and communities provides great opportunity. Seldom do you see funds that come from the Federal government go directly to local government without a stopping off point in Charleston where they often get diverted.…
Are we religious? I think most people in Hancock and Brooke Counties, as well as the corresponding border counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania would call themselves Christians. When it comes to Hancock and Brooke the number of our residents who profess to being adherents of…
Your Imagination StationHello Friends, welcome back to Your Imagination Station. We’re so glad you decided to stop back in to see what we’ve been up to since we were last together, and to see what we have planned now.A quick look back…we were thrilled to…
But we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. If you’re a procrastinator, we still have both the federal and state tax forms and instruction booklets here for you. Time’s running out, though so you better hurry! We can also find whatever additional forms or…
Are you ready to be shocked? You’ve been warned. I am about to type something that you never thought a nice, thoughtful pastor would write.Jesus doesn’t want you to help other people.I’ll wait while you read that again and try to figure out what in…
Being somewhat new to this business of writing a newspaper column, I may tend to focus too long on a single subject, or get sidetracked easily. Truthfully, though what I am writing isn’t “news.” I mean it’s not like it happened yesterday. I will leave…
…..Not sure if my gullibility (or my knowledge that no idea is too ridiculous to turn into a bill and introduce in the WV Legislature) resulted in me thinking for a moment a bill introduced last week was for real. It was April 1 so…
….Apologies to the 2020 Teacher of the Year, Jessica LITTLE. I melded the names of two great teachers together, Jessica Little and Megan White, and identified her as Jessica White in the photo ID. I promise to do better next time, but we all know…
Back to Newell and potteries. As I previously stated the Homer Laughlin Pottery Company (which I may abbreviate here as “HLC”) started out in East Liverpool, Ohio. I have read somewhere that at one time there may have been as many as 300 potteries in…