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A National Holiday Worth Fighting For

As we celebrate Veterans Day we must look at the history of the National Holiday! World War I officially ended On June 28, 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, outside the town of Versailles, France. It was the first War ever declared to be a World Wide War. The signing of the ...

Dogs Running At Large Is A major Problem

For many years dogs running at large and not properly restrained or kept on a lease, have become a major problem and resulted in injuries and death to other animals and humans. It is entirely the dog owners responsibility to ensure their dog is not loose and on a leash, and fenced in properly ...

Can Public Schools Last With the Increase in Charter Schools

With all the bickering and inhouse fighting over teaching positions, student transfers, school mergers and consolidation, none of it can compare to the threat public schools now face from Charter schools. A few years ago all the talk had to do with public vs private, recruiting, ...

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Back in the mid to late 60ás people in the U.S. were protesting by large anything that didnát satisfy there taste. There have almost always been protests of some kind throughout the World, however it now seems as though protesting has taken on a different kind of look. An everyday occurrance ...

Recognizing the qualities of others

Treating others well, modifies the expectations they have towards you. If you can see the essence and good of people, they will be grateful to you and see you differently. They will have a positive view of you which will improve your self-esteem and, your actions will be oriented towards ...

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Labor Day is the a national holiday for all the working men and women in the United States. It is the Heart and Soul of those who have spent a lifetime in their occupation or vounteer careers helping to build and make this a better and the best country in the World. Each Year for the past 74 ...

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With fears and potential adaptations still ahead for parents and children, return to school is always a time when parents and teachers revisit what is important for children and how to best support their positive development. Topics parents think about at back-to-school time include learning, ...

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I see a lot of comments on social media and read a lot about the love of a Father. Most of it is true, however there are also those who have been abused and mistreated in many ways that still cling to the notion that they had a good father. My father or as we often called him âthe old manã ...

The Gas Starts Here!

From Wetzel County, West Virginia to Pittsylvania County Virginia, the Mountain Valley Pipeline will stretch 303 miles to provide domestic natural gas to markets in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. The MVP project offers short-term economic benefits associated with ...

How We Report The Local News

What we try our best to do here at your local newspaper is to treat our news sources as fairly and openly as we treat our readers. Sometimes we make mistakes, but when we do we also try are best to correct them. We donát befriend our news sources in order to receive interviews or unpublished ...