This is the lovely moment of calm. Soon the moon swells. Soon the luck shifts. Soon love is tested. Soon the secret gets out and gets twisted. Soon the landscape loses its last leaves. This is the day to savor the solace of a calm moment before the beautiful inevitability of change carries us forward again.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Asking the right question is more powerful than telling someone what to do. You have a disarming and inspiring energy that makes others feel safe to reveal
Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or anyone else “thank you.” The usual response has been for as long as I remember, “you’re welcome.” For the young, especially, it has become “no problem.”
Why would thanking someone for a service or kindness performed be considered a problem? What does that even mean?
Thanksgiving, which mythically began when the Pilgrims and early settlers thanked God for His “many blessings,”
HODGESVILLE — An Upshur County man who was arrested in May after allegedly making threats against Hodgesville Elementary School students was arrested again on Monday after allegedly failing to comply with the terms of his home confinement.
The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office announced that Andrew Devon Hitt, 25, was charged with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor and received a home confinement violation, in a statement released on Monday. He is currently being held at the Tygart Valley
BELINGTON – A Randolph County man is facing a felony arson charge after allegedly setting fire to a residence on Misty Mountain Road in Randolph County.
Charles Olen Wyatt, 29, is charged with burning first-degree arson, a felony. He is currently being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $30,000 cash-only bond set by Randolph County Magistrate Tracy Harper.
According to the criminal complaint, filed by Trooper H. J. Bonetti with the West Virginia State Police, on Nov. 29, Bonetti was
(AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said he’s invited the family of a National Guard member fatally shot last week to the White House, saying he spoke to her parents and they were “devastated.”
U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died after the Wednesday shooting in Washington, D.C., while her seriously injured colleague, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remained in critical condition.
The president said he’s discussed a White House visit for the parents of both members of the West
CHARLESTON – A Winter Weather Advisory with varying levels of snow and ice accumulation has been issued for the local region and most of West Virginia, as another winter storm is scheduled to hit the U.S.
The National Weather Service stations in Charleston and Pittsburgh issued the advisory for 45 counties in the state, including Randolph, Upshur, Barbour, Tucker and Pocahontas counties.
The advisory will remain in effect from 11 p.m. tonight to 1 p.m. Tuesday in Randolph, Upshur, Barbour and
A lunar fire-sign trine on the first day Venus joins Mars in Sagittarius sends an astral headline: “Hot and Hotter.” Hot: A clever post. Hotter: The DM it inspires. Hot: A new idea. Hotter: Someone funds it. Heat rises fast under this sky. A flirt becomes a plan, a plan becomes a breakthrough, and a spark becomes a blaze.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Things aren’t clear-cut today. Since the “right” answer isn’t obvious, stop worrying about being perfect and just do what helps. Wisdom isn’t moral
ELKINS — Lisa Martin (board president) and Michael Hayes (board treasurer) updated the Elkins Rotary Club on the progress of the Elkins Interact Children’s Museum (ICM).
Beginning in 2019, ICM operated as a mobile museum with an eye toward establishing a brick-and-mortar location. A significant gift was received from the Gerald and Judith Davis Foundation that helped move the needle closer to that goal. The organization launched a capital campaign and began the search for the right location.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gary Beckstrom’s Thanksgiving Day message to the nation carried a world of hurt in 18 poignant words.
“I’m holding her hand right now,” he told the New York Times on Thursday.
“She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”
He was speaking from the Washington, D.C., hospital room of his daughter, Sarah Beckstrom, who died later that day.
The 20-year-old Summersville native, who enlisted in the National Guard right after her graduation from Webster Springs High
While the acronym might have been a bit of a stretch, the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) for Veterans Act is still a long-overdue piece of legislation, introduced recently by U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.
Given all this country — and particularly our region — has been through because of the substance abuse epidemic, it is a bit of a surprise no one has worked toward such a measure for those who have served.
This one would expand
