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Editorial

‘If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It.’

Every so often traveling through small towns like Paden City you see where an electric pole has been snapped in half or totally destroyed, occasionally a house will get hit or a car parked along the road crushed. And on rare ocassions a vehicle crash will catch your attention. If you happen ...

Another Christmas Shopping Season Is Upon Us. I Love It.

It’s after Thanksgiving now, the season intended for the great American annual buying spree. Oh, some stores have strung through the aisles since before Halloween and the first Yule catalogues began arriving in September. But these don’t count. Now is the season. Main streets in little ...

A Small Town Christmas

Small town Christmas celebrations bring out the spirit in most folks. Have you ever visited a small town during the season? If so, you know there is nothing more magical than the feeling when everyone knows everyone else. No large city can compare to the small town atmosphere. It is pure ...

Recalling the Old 5 & 10, a Scene of Happy Pre-Christmas Bedlam

“Christmas time is coming, and it’s memory time again, and I remember Christmas and Murphy’s 5 & 10. The first thing that you noticed, was their big window sign, From now on until Christmas, We’ll be open until 9. They never worked on Sundays then, It was a 6-day week. And it was so ...

Looking for a Better America

With Thanksgiving 2021 over and Christmas and the New Year soon to be here, we are blessed to live in a country where we are truly free. While many question our freedom, it is obvious when looking outside our boundaries that America is the one place the rest of the world envies. For those ...

Christmas Tree Memories

We’ve cleared all the stuff out of the home place down in Logan County and someone else lives there now. My grandson, Matthew, had asked me to give him something that Dad used when he worked in the coal mines when we moved everything out, and I took him a carbide light and a track wrench. ...

How to Make This Vet Feel Good

A secretary for Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, Delores Carson, has been trying for the past couple of years to get special attention for veterans on Nov. 11. She tried to get major manufacturers interested in printing “Thanks for Serving” cards to be sent to former service people. ...

Editorial – November 17, 2021

The income gap in the United States has been expanding for decades, good paying blue collar jobs that once employed hundreds of people in small towns have all but disappeared. The days of walking out of high school and finding employment in a chemical plant, aluminum plant or coal mine are ...

Editorial – November 3, 2021

Name something that nearly every small comunity has! The first thing that comes to mind is usually a hometown restaurant. Imagine your hometown or local community without one. A place where locals gather for a cup of coffee, breakfast and lunch. The place where folks hang out to talk and ...

Help Keep Your Neighborhood Clean, Community Healthy

Have you ever gone on vacation or maybe just a day trip and stumbled on an area where you say, “This is the kind of place I want to live in.” Some of the best vacation destinations are those that keep there homes, yards, and streets clean and in good shape. Recently New Martinsville held ...