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Congrats to WVU Class of 2024!

Do you know what’s special about the college Class of 2024? Four years ago, many of them were the high school Class of 2020: The first graduating teens to have their senior year derailed by COVID-19. Months away from leaving childhood behind and entering that strange new world of semi-adulthood, their whole lives were turned upside down. Classes were canceled, then eventually moved online, so no more morning hangouts at the lockers, catching up with friends at lunch, rehearsing for the play, or practicing for the game. Prom got nixed — or delayed until summer or moved outside ...

Legacy and future of Scott’s Run Settlement House

It is a testament to the Scott’s Run Settlement House’s success that it has grown beyond what its 100-year home can accommodate — and that people don’t want to see it leave. There’s the Scott’s Run Settlement House the nonprofit organization (SRSH) and Scott’s Run Settlement House the house. The house has served as homebase for the nonprofit since 1922, when the organization was founded to serve the influx of immigrants coming to Osage to work in the mines, and so the two have always been synonymous. However, the organization, which has long addressed food insecurity ...

Someone has to clean up the mess at Bartlett

It’s disheartening to hear that Bartlett House faces a much more dire situation than we thought. It was bad enough when word was just that the emergency shelter out at Hazel’s House of Hope might have to close; it’s devastating to hear that the entire program — including the long-term facilities at West Run — could close in under 60 days without a large cash infusion. And it was mind-boggling to hear just how much Bartlett House was in the hole: A staggering $745,000 to 23 creditors. How did it get to this point? Unfortunately, all we have at the moment is speculation ...

It’s National Nurses Week

Imagine, for a moment, walking into any hospital or urgent care or primary care clinic and there are no nurses around. In our imagination, it’s either pure chaos as waiting rooms fill to bursting with patients who haven’t even made it to an exam room for initial questions and diagnostics or it’s eerily silent because the clinic is virtually defunct without any nursing staff on hand to provide and expedite medical services. Nurses are the lifeblood of health care, working tirelessly and endlessly to keep medical services going — the ubiquitous front line we may take for ...

What to know before you go vote

We are just over a week from the May 14 primary election, and early voting is already underway. If you’d like to know more about who and what will appear on the ballot, we highly recommend that you take a look at the Voter’s Guide (F section), which will give you a little insight into the candidates running for office, and sample ballots in today’s paper. (Sample ballots will run again May 12.) Pay attention to the top of each ballot: You should receive the ballot for the political party with which you are registered, so make sure you are looking at the correct sample ballot. ...

Cinco de Mayo: A brief history

As year-rounders (or “townies”) in the University City, most of us look upon Cinco de Mayo as a Latino- or Mexican-themed bacchanalia that leaves downtown uninhabitable for those under 18 and over 35, if we acknowledge it at all. Since Cinco de Mayo is tomorrow, we thought it would be interesting to explore what this holiday means beyond partying and a trip to your favorite Mexican-food joint. May 5, or Cinco de Mayo, is not, in fact, Mexico’s Independence Day — that’s Sept. 16 — though it does celebrate Mexican national pride. Rather, it commemorates a Mexican military ...