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Now comes Christmas: Pantry Plus gears up for Yule

MORGANTOWN — ‘Tis the season. If you didn’t know, Parker Alexander could have told you all about it Tuesday. The 7-year-old was gearing up for it, in fact, in those hours before Thanksgiving, as he gathered with his mom at Pantry Plus More in Westover. Boxes brimming with turkey ...

Community Thanksgiving meal returns

MORGANTOWN -- After a forced hiatus in 2020 because of COVID-19, Wesley United Methodist Church Community Thanksgiving returned Thursday to prepare and hand out meals for first responders, nursing staff employees, the homebound, and anyone who wanted to grab one to go. Karen King, who ...

Gratitude is as much a practice as an emotion

It’s as much a Thanksgiving tradition as turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce: Naming the thing — or things — you are grateful for. (After all, it is Thanksgiving.) It can be hard to pin down what we’re grateful for in a normal year, but after nearly two years of upheaval and ...

For caregivers, the menu or venue shouldn’t define Thanksgiving

by Peter Rosenberger While the public face of Thanksgiving projects a Norman Rockwell painting, stress and sadness better describe the holiday for many of America’s millions of family caregivers. Numerous caregivers fear that this may be the last Thanksgiving with their loved ...