In the Middle Ages, the Great Chain of Being placed humans between angels and beasts — both animal and above animal — a position echoed by theologians, philosophers and natural scientists throughout Western thought. There is much wildness to claim this Hunter’s Moon. As you track your desire, moving swiftly where the heart points, are you more creature of flesh or being of light?
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Freedom has its place, but today structure will carry you further. Make the plans. Follow
The Inter-Mountain photo by Brad Johnson
87th Mountain State Forest Festival Director General Lisa A. Shaffer, left, and Queen Silvia Sterling Anne Kump place a commemorative stone at the Jennings Randolph Federal Building Plaza during the MSFF closing ceremony in Elkins Sunday afternoon.
ELKINS — The Mountain State Forest Festival’s 87th Queen Silvia was crowned Friday afternoon during a coronation ceremony under sunny skies.
West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner crowned Queen Silvia LXXXVII Sterling Anne Kump at the Citizens Bank of WV Amphitheatre on the campus of Davis & Elkins College.
Royal trumpeteers Aidan Matthew Lowther, Hunter Wade Shaffer, Madeline Grace Wamsley and Kyle Liam Warner as Royal Trumpeteers provided fanfare for the queen and her court at the
William Albert “Billy” Putzulu, 56, a native of Randolph County, West Virginia, and more recently a resident of West Columbia, West Virginia, departed this life Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, 2025, at River Health at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The family will receive friends at the Saint Brendan Catholic Church at Elkins on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
On Tuesday at 11 a.m., the Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated.
The Rev. Father Jim O’Connor will be the Presider and
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”
Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful Democratic senator’s support
Eldare Violet (Gainer) Moore will celebrate her 100th birthday on Friday, Oct. 10.
She was born Oct. 10, 1925 in Barbour County.
Her parents were Earnest and Dovie (Lutz) Gainer.
There will be a celebration at the Nestorville Community Center in Nestorville on Saturday, Oct. 11, beginning at noon.
Her friends are urged to come by the celebration and wish her a happy birthday.
For cards, the address is 288 Digman Road, Philippi, WV 26416.
If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it’s a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?
Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued their poll warning Republicans would get more of the blame than Democrats. That’s why those partisan hacks deserved defunding. A substantial minority would
John Howard Adams Sr., 92, a former resident of Lanham, Maryland, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at Castle of Love Assisted Living in Bowie, Maryland, under the care of Capital Caring Hospice.
He was born Sept. 18, 1933, at Huttonsville, West Virginia, a son of the late Sam W. and Helen Sirbaugh Adams.
On June 18, 1964, in Chillum, Maryland, he was married to Helen Brown, who preceded him in death May 15, 2023.
He is survived by one son, John H. Adams Jr. of Laurel, Maryland; one
A cosmic reminder: One of the simplest, most reliable ways to shrink fear is to start work right away. Fear thrives in uncertainty and inactivity. When a problem just sits there in your mind, it can grow into something bigger and scarier than it really is. The moment you start working on it in any way, however small, messy or imperfect, the problem goes from abstract to tangible.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Something stops you from throwing yourself completely into the action, unselfconscious and
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit an RBI single off a shaky Yu Darvish, and the Chicago Cubs shut down Fernando Tatis Jr. and the San Diego Padres for a clinching 3-1 victory in Game 3 of their NL Wild Card Series on Thursday.
Backed by a raucous crowd of 40,895 at Wrigley Field, Chicago used its stellar defense to advance in the postseason for the first time since 2017. Michael Busch hit a solo homer, and Jameson Taillon pitched four shutout innings before manager Craig Counsell used five
