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……AND THEN AGAIN by Tamara Pettit

…………Let  me preface my remarks by saying I love attorneys.  No, I really do.  My late husband, Bill Kiefer, was an esteemed attorney who saved Weirton Steel and Bethany College’ s bacon on many occasions and was invaluable on many fronts.   My son, Doug, is…

CHESTER’S 4TH OF JULY PARADE CELEBRATES UNSUNG HEROES

Daylong festivities in Chester will feature a theme of “Unsung Heroes” with Five Grand Marshalls honored for all they do for their hometown. Mike Dotson, Susan Hineman, John Hissam, Donnie Murray and Ed Wedgewood, will share the honors as the community thanks them for the…

OAK GLEN FIELD TURF AND LIGHTING PROJECT TABLED

A vote to go ahead with construction on the Oak Glen Field Turf and Lighting project was tabled on a 3-2 vote when the Board of Education met Monday night.  Members lined up on a north-south line with Ed Fields and Larry Shaw voting to…

AND THEN AGAIN…….by Tamara Pettit

………..I had forgotten a basic principle in my adjustment to being alone again and in my quest to alleviate my sadness.  “Just cause you can do something doesn’t mean you can do it well.”  We’re talking about painting.   I’ve been looking for projects and my…

JUST MY THOUGHTS…….by Tamara

It’s just not in the movies that companies pick small towns to bypass the environmental laws. It really happens. It happened here, in New Cumberland. I saw something on WV Metro News that caused me to go the EPA site out of Philadelphia to locate…

Messer LLC to pay $1.9 million penalty for Clean Water Act violations at New Cumberland, WV facility PHILADELPHIA (June 23, 2023) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Messer LLC has agreed to pay a $1.9 million civil penalty for Clean Water Act permit violations…