An age-old question: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It’s actually both! Botanically, a tomato is a fruit because it grows from a flower and holds seeds. But we treat it like a vegetable because it has a savory taste and goes so well in main course dishes. Tomatoes work in sandwiches, ...
MORGANTOWN – The toxic air caused by Canadian wildfires canceled Switchfoot’s July 17 performance in Morgantown as part of the Ruby Summer Concert Series. It’s now looking like that may have just been a temporary delay. Morgantown Arts and Cultural Development Director Vincent Kitch ...
MORGANTOWN – Joe Boczek and the team driving GameChanger, the drug abuse prevention and awareness program geared to Mountain State youth, did something last week that they normally don’t do. They relaxed. And enjoyed their moment. But it was fleeting. GameChanger this past Thursday in ...
A few months ago, becoming enamored of dahlias, I learned and wrote about their many different varieties, origins in South America, etc. Late in spring, I bought a few tubers from a hardware store and planted them in large pots. Some sprouted but never managed to bloom. Later in the season, ...
When writer-director Bob Ahmed was scouting locations for his film, “Adam’s Fire,” he found himself lost in Lost Creek, West Virginia. “He's driving around, and he sees this farmhouse up on a hill, and he thought that would be the perfect location,” Bob Ohmer, an actor and producer ...
Forty years ago, we were in the midst of a “Just Say No!” campaign to raise awareness of the problems of drug use and addiction. The request was from Nancy Reagan to the young people of the United States of America to “Just say No” to drugs when offered. It did not address the real ...
