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Preston County sees increase in COVID-19 deaths

KINGWOOD — Preston County has the 10th highest COVID infection rate in the state of West Virginia, according to Preston County Health Department Director V. J. Davis. “Tomorrow it could be even higher,” he said at Thursday’s Preston County Health Department meeting. Davis said ...

Learn to save a life (or two)

If you had the opportunity to learn the Heimlich maneuver to keep somebody from choking to death, you wouldn’t think twice, right? If you were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you’d most likely administer it to someone who has lost consciousness. And if you knew a way ...

Flex mental muscles

Fergie said it best, “I be up in the gym just working on my fitness!” As we all should, but do we work on our mental fitness? Did you know on average every year in the U.S 18.1% (43.6 million) suffer from some form of mental illness (HealthyPeople.gov). I recently came across a great ...

Get out of your comfort zone

Do the words “new” or “change” frighten you? Maybe not even frighten you, but just words you do not care for because your life is good the way it is now? With that question in mind, is change a bad thing or a good thing? I know many people who like what they like and don’t like what ...