There is a number that never shows up in the inflation report, never gets mentioned at the press conference, but decides whether a family makes it to the end of the month. That number is $4.59! That’s the average for regular gasoline today along the Ohio River. $6.79 for diesel. In ...

Autumn didn’t officially start until September 22nd this year. The calendar says so, but the Northeast knows better. In West Virginia, in Pennsylvania, in the high hollows of the Appalachians, autumn starts the last week of August. You feel it at 6:30 in the morning. The air that was thick ...

In 1968, if something big happened in Wetzel County, you heard about it three ways. Your neighbor told you over the fence. The Wetzel Chronicle showed up on Wednesday, or you listened to Walter Cronkite at 6:30. That was it. Two channels, one newspaper, and the gossip at the Esso station, ...

On the first Monday of September, the grill gets lit, the lake gets busy, and a big yellow school bus shows up on the road again the next morning. Labor Day feels like summer’s period at the end of a sentence. But the holiday wasn’t built for mattress sales. It was built in the street, with ...

To the Editor: I am writing to respectfully clarify the recent article in the Innformer concerning Middlebourne EMS and discussions with Doddridge County Emergency Squad. At the request of Doddridge County EMS, I met with their director for approximately 45 minutes. During that meeting, a ...

Dear Editor, In a letter I wrote in regards to the observance of our country’s 250th Anniversary, there were other issues I felt I needed to be addressed, but was limited by space and of which I felt were important to be talked about, in regards to historical facts and not of my ...

Dear Editor, In a letter I wrote in regards to the observance of our country’s 250th Anniversary, there were other issues I felt I needed to be addressed, but was limited by space and of which I felt were important to be talked about, in regards to historical facts and not of my ...

Dear Editor, I know it is early in the Paden City Music in the Park Series, however there are some people that I want to thank for helping me. Kellie and Jeff Rexroad from the Lions Club for taking care of selling the food. Also Carla and Dave. Thank you to Clyde Hochstrasser for helping. I ...

Only three days before last Friday, the fall equinox took place. The earth’s journey tilting away from the sun is half ways complete. Days are becoming rapidly shorter, and in the trees, katydids have begun to sing their song. At night crickets take up the singing. Mother nature’s way of ...

At the recent Paden City Labor Day Parade, our Secretary of State, Kris Warner participated in the day’s events. Upon the conclusion of the parade I caught up with him to ask a couple important questions state citizens are now asking. First, his thoughts on the state and incoming data ...

When Mary and I traveled to Ireland, one of the destinations that we had set our sights on seeing was the Blarney Castle. Located in County Cork, its history goes back to about 1200. The first castle was built as a stone fortress. IN a war a couple hundred years later that original stone ...

Ireland is famous for its Waterford Crystal. If you were to visit most any place in the world and mentioned the name Waterford, those hearing the name would immediately recognize it to be one of the most prestigious types of manmade glass in the world. The first Crystal was made in 1883 in the ...

Four games into our high school soccer season, no wins. We struggled to score like last year. The difference, last year we had a strong defense. This year we allowed four goals per game. Game 4 was our worst loss in memory. Game 5 was an away game with our archrival. The coaches saw bright ...

During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first ...

Last week Lynnda and I hosted a foreign company we met at SelectUSA who visited our region looking for potential sites for their high energy manufacturing business. They will create over 100 high-wage jobs. We were their tour guide and chauffeur. We had a full schedule of meetings and site ...

One of my concerns on our U.S. Commercial Services Roadshow to Turkey earlier this year was language. I do not know any Turkish. In Istanbul and Ankara, the presentations were in English or they had a headset with a translator. In Koceali, our second stop, everything except our afternoon ...