……I feel like my head is full of random thoughts and questions, so I’m sharing them with you. My good friend, the late Hugh Tate, used to do a column “Things I know, see or hear” full of observations. Hugh was one of the best…
……..And here I sit again on New Year’s Eve. There are reports of parties and dancing even drinking and frivolity. But, in all my years, I never saw it. Once I was old enough to go drinking and dancing, I was already a young mother. …
……The backhoe outdid itself this year proving their is no limit when Santa and Pat Jones put their minds together for a parade! ….The New Cumberland Christmas Parade was fantastic. It was the biggest and best I remember in all the years the community has…
I have a vested interest in racetrack video lottery…..I and the late Del. Sam Love birthed it in 1994. We spent many long hours going over the percentages of where the net terminal revenue should go and my status as the delegate who huddled in…
>…..I used to put my tree up like a whirling dervish the weekend after Thanksgiving. I did it all by myself. Many times throughout my life I have been alone and that did not bother me. It was just that no one had the commitment, the intensity, the…
…..The beginning of buck season coinciding with Thanksgiving has always perplexed me. With no hunters in my family, I didn’t encounter deer hunters until I worked at Weirton Steel. The workers looked forward to deer season with the anticipation of young children looking forward to…
……..The latest poll in a local daily paper was interesting. It asked the question “Do you think Joe Manchin should run for president” and 64% of the respondents said yes. Yet poll after poll indicates Gov. Jim Justice would beat the pants off of Manchin…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the ten years since we founded the paper I’ve always written about my experience with breast cancer, October is almost over and Shannon is waiting for the column. She feels a real social responsibility about these things “You…
…….Monday is Labor Day and we often forget why a day was declared to honor our workers in 1887. Two of the biggest unions, the Knights of the Labor, and the Central Labor Union, declared a day where union workers would be off work; have…