The Rev. Timothy J. Allen, who has served as a Methodist minister for 40 years, will be ordained in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of West Virginia, by Bishop Matthew D. […]
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Officials tell lawmakers that jail conditions are satisfactory and improving
West Virginia officials who oversee the corrections system told lawmakers that they believe improvements are taking place. “You all know, painfully, we’ve had some public episodes with corrections,” state Homeland […]
Submit grievances for Festivus
Few of us have quite as many grievances as Frank Costanza — or are as funny about them. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a gripe or two festering […]
Huntington’s Zah Jackson repeats as Carl Lee Award winner
HUNTINGTON — Billy Seals bristled at an official who threw a flag for pass interference on Zah Jackson early last season. “A kid with offers from SEC programs doesn’t need […]
At gubernatorial debate, no good options presented
If last Thursday’s MetroNews gubernatorial debate is anything to go by, Republican primary voters have no good options. None of the three participating candidates stood out as an overall good […]
I built my own tribe for Hanukkah
by Bliss Goldstein Twenty years ago, I moved from L.A. to San Francisco and then Bellingham, Wash. — so far north I could spit across the border and a Canadian […]
Norman Lear and me
Television producer Norman Lear, who died last week at age 101, probably could not get away today with what he put on the small screen in the 70s with his […]
Explosive 3rd quarter the difference as Clay-Battelle tops Cameron 69-43
BLACKSVILLE — The Clay-Battelle boys basketball team earned a strong victory over the visiting Cameron Dragons on a chilly Tuesday night in Blacksville inside Statler-Wilson Gymnasium. After taking a seven […]
Hawks come out flat in 73-40 loss to Parkersburg South
MORGANTOWN — Four games into the season and the University High School girls’ basketball team is still searching for its identity. Are the Hawks (2-2) the team that knocked off […]
Wheeling Central uses size, speed to top Trinity Christian 77-47
MORGANTOWN — Wheeling Central Catholic was simply too big, too fast and too physical to stop as the Maroon Knights rolled over Trinity Christian 77-47 high on the hill in […]
