Back in August of 1875, Edward Bickersteth heard a sermon about peace. Later that Sunday afternoon he visited a terminally ill friend and the friend asked about the sermon, since he hadn’t been able to be there. Bickersteth told him about the preacher talking about an inner peace that is ...

Have we got a deal for you! Today we are bombarded with telemarketing calls and events or people that go viral. In the late 1700’s, land in the “Ohio Country” was an attraction and curiosity to people living in the colonies. Sometimes it was called “Ohio Fever.” The Ohio Country then ...

House Bill 2014, the Power Generation and Consumption Act of 2025, introduced on 3/18/25 into the WV House of Delegates by Speaker Roger Hanshaw at the behest of Gov. Patrick Morrisey, is a recipe for keeping West Virginia an extraction colony and sacrifice zone, with a 21st Century ...

In the span of two years the old dam at Little Hocking claimed two major sternwheelers and 18 lives. As the Kanawha pulled away from Marietta on Jan. 5, 1916, Jennie Hoyt stood on her Virginia Street porch and watched it leaving the wharf carrying her son Fred, who was a clerk on the boat, ...

One of our partners reminded me a couple of days ago, it’s time to start planning for the annual food drives hosted by The Marietta Times and Parkersburg News and Sentinel each fall. He was right, of course, but my first thought was “Wow, this seems early.” It’s not. The more time ...

As a councilwoman and a parent, I’ve learned how decisions made in Columbus—and even in Washington—don’t stay there. They reach into our neighborhoods and communities in ways that are often overlooked. I see how state and federal policy directly impacts public services at the local ...