The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Local drivers are, for the most part, back in the habit of obeying safety laws regarding school buses on the roads. But during this National School Bus Safety Week, it is important to remind ourselves not only of the rules but why they are so[Read More…]

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Appalachian Regional Commission officials earlier this week announced $68.2 million in awards to 65 projects through its Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (anything to come up with a snappy acronym) initiative. Though not all of the commission’s efforts are home runs, POWER[Read More…]

The Intelligencer During last week’s special session of the West Virginia Legislature, lawmakers carved out time to honor someone important not only to the state, but to the country. They passed a resolution to place a statue of the late Hershel “Woody” Williams inside the U.S. Capitol. Williams, who died[Read More…]

No one likes school consolidations. No one wants to see an elementary, middle or high school that has traditionally been a central part of a community shut down for students to be bused somewhere else — sometimes quite a distance — every day. It wasn’t surprising to see so many[Read More…]

The Wayne County News The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant could come back online in a few years to feed Microsoft’s need for data centers and artificial intelligence, but that is far from the only indication things are changing in the nation’s power grid. There is so much going[Read More…]

The Journal As we head into another election season, the time to reiterate the cry to candidates and to those who work for them regarding the legality of placing campaign signage. Election season brings us every size, shape and color of campaign sign imaginable and these signs have already begun[Read More…]

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Lawmakers who still think it is more important to protect “personal freedoms” for homeschooling parents than it is to protect the children being kept at home got another wake-up call this week. Fortunately — this time — the children involved in this case are still alive to[Read More…]

The Intelligencer. Wheeling News-Register Today, we at the News-Register celebrate our 134th birthday. It’s amazing to consider that, for nearly a century and a half, this newspaper has been a trusted source of the most important information for the people of the Upper Ohio Valley. From the inaugural edition published[Read More…]

The Journal Most Mountain State residents already know what a treasure the late Katherine Johnson was, and how important she and her colleagues were to any successes the United States had at the beginning of the space race. The White Sulphur Springs native and West Virginia State University graduate was[Read More…]

Charleston Gazette-Mail The run-up to the general election has been surprisingly quiet, in respect to the race for the Governor’s Office. Arguably the biggest news so far is that Democratic Party candidate and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams has challenged West Virginia Attorney General and Republican nominee Patrick Morrisey to a[Read More…]