To the editor: We are fortunate that the Herald-Star covered the recent meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Health. We learned that one board member stated that the odors attributed to Apex Landfill might instead be coming from cattle farms. I know the Ohio Valley pretty well and ...
So, today is Groundhog Day. It’s one of the lesser-celebrated holidays of the year, unless, of course, you happen to live in Punxsutawney, Pa. Then, it’s a celebration unlike any other. I know this because I watched the movie “Groundhog Day,” with Bill Murray several times. ...
Roger “Cookie” Wallace passed, a longtime friend I met through his brother, Richard “Dick’ Wallace, who was a Brooke County school bus driver who listened with encouragement about my aspiration to be in the fight racket. When I was working in Wellsburg back in the late 1970s, his ...
These past few weeks have been tough for folks in the Weirton area. The ongoing water issues have pretty much taken much of our attention. Since we live on Weirton Heights, we are still under a boil order, although we are blessed to have some water when so many don’t. It makes me thankful ...
The Pinewood Derby is a piece of Americana that hearkens back to a treasured time when fathers taught sons about working with their hands and with tools to create something of value. That piece of Americana nowadays involves moms and sons and daughters, brothers and sisters or uncles and ...
Norfolk Southern has suffered another derailment — although this one, thank goodness, was more an inconvenience than a disaster. Eight cars of a train carrying several thousand pounds of soybeans derailed Monday morning at the company’s railyard in Portsmouth. Three of those cars ...