From The Dominion Post:  The holiday season got under way last week with one red-letter day. Not to mention two shopping frenzies — Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. But there are other upcoming functions that, though not printed in red on calendars or even seasonal, are still significant. Last[Read More…]

Daily Mail editorial page Charleston Gazette-Mail You gorged yourself and enjoyed time with family on Thanksgiving Day. You got up early, battled the crowds and survived Black Friday. You hit the downtowns and shopped small to support locally owned businesses on Small Business Saturday. You stayed at your keyboard and[Read More…]

From the The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Daily Mail page: By Hoppy Kercheval I started my Thanksgiving a little early. It was unexpected and certainly not traditional, but no less meaningful. There was no turkey or football or day off. In fact, I was at work when a good friend stopped by[Read More…]

The Journal editorial News spread throughout the region Sunday of the sad deaths of four Jefferson County residents due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. Our thoughts are with the family, and we cannot imagine their loss. But they are not alone. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that an average[Read More…]

By LAURA DEAN BENNETT The Pocahontas Times I came across a picture by Norman Rockwell the other day, titled, Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey. It put me in mind of an old family story from way before I was born – about the year everyone had Thanksgiving at Aunt[Read More…]

From the Weirton Daily Times: The names of the battlefields American men and women have fought on have changed many times over the years, but we must always remember the sacrifices they have made in those faraway places. That’s why we want every reader to take a moment today, Veterans[Read More…]

By MIKE MYER  The Intelligencer of Wheeling Christmas has come early to the mountains. We West Virginians have been tossed a lifeline from, of all places, China. The question is, will we use it as a rescue — or merely a reprieve? Thursday’s announcement that a Chinese company will invest[Read More…]

By Sean O’Leary WVPA Contributing Columnist   The cavalry is here! … maybe. West Virginia University, Marshall University, and the West Virginia Department of Commerce have released a new plan for achieving “both short- and long-term success in revitalizing the economy, creating jobs and priming the state for success in[Read More…]

The Journal of Martinsburg:  The Great War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, but fighting actually ceased seven months earlier when an armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect. It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the[Read More…]