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Talented Area Youth are Ready to Entertain You!

Talented Area Youth are Ready to Entertain You!

For years, Oglebay Institute has held summer auditions for their Parcel Players of area youth ages 12-18. This is such a positive thing that they have done for our youth.  Not only does it give the teens a chance to experience the many aspects of theatre, whether it be a...

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This Party was For the Dogs

This Party was For the Dogs

My daughter, Allie, LOVES BIRTHDAYS. She just turned six, but has already taken great pains to plan for her birthday parties months in advance.  Some of her ideas have been good; others have required a gentle re-direction from her mother and I (one year she wanted a Disney Princess “Brave”...

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Container Gardening – Big Results In Small Spaces

Container Gardening – Big Results In Small Spaces

Now that it has officially ended, I think I can safely say that this past June has been the rainiest I can ever remember in my 41 years here in the Ohio Valley. I can hardly recall a day over this past month where our plans weren’t derailed because of...

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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." There were 56 men from each of the original 13 colonies who risked their reputations,...

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Prepping for Racing

Prepping for Racing

Every summer I run 5Ks. Every winter I swear I am going to stay on the treadmill and work out. That never happens. So every April, I am busting it out at the track or the walking trail in St. Clairsville getting ready for the summer’s 5Ks. As I am...

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Livestock Club

Livestock Club

I was a 4-H member for years and although I grew up in the country, I never took a livestock project while being a 4-H member. Years later, as my own children became involved in 4-H, I was a little surprised when my middle child, Stefanie, announced that she wanted...

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Nationally Recognized Attorney Sharon Eubanks Joins Bordas & Bordas

Nationally Recognized Attorney Sharon Eubanks Joins Bordas & Bordas

Nationally Recognized Attorney Sharon Eubanks Joins Bordas & Bordas Nationally recognized attorney and author Sharon Eubanks has joined the Wheeling, W.Va.-based law firm of Bordas & Bordas where she will focus on complex civil litigation. With more than 30 years of experience in the legal field, Managing Partner Jamie Bordas...

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A DEDICATION TO NINE FAULTLESS LIVES

A DEDICATION TO NINE FAULTLESS LIVES

Not too long ago, I wrote a blog about being a transracial family and now I write to you about MY FEELINGS on the recent killings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where 21-year-old, Dylann Roof shot nine black church members to death. These are not...

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Just what is the TPP? Do you know?

Just what is the TPP? Do you know?

Do you know about the recent ongoings with the two escaped prisoners from The Clinton Correction Facility in New York, and the complicit prison employees? Have you heard about the recent shark attacks or quarterback Tom Brady's appeal in "Deflate Gate?" I am well aware of the latter three issues...

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Just what is the TPP? Do you know?

Just what is the TPP? Do you know?

Do you know about the recent ongoings with the two escaped prisoners from The Clinton Correction Facility in New York, and the complicit prison employees? Have you heard about the recent shark attacks or quarterback Tom Brady's appeal in "Deflate Gate?" I am well aware of the latter three issues...

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