The sound of chirping birds stirred me awake in the morning hours. The window behind my bed welcomed sunlight through my curtains and wished me a good morning. As the majority of Americans do, I rolled over and picked up my phone to see what the world had been up to during my rest.
When age creeps up on you, you remember when the things we take for granted today were new. I can remember when seeing “in color” on a televis…
It is an abnormally cold winter morning here in the mountains of southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia, at least at the time of this w…
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A liberal journalist has set aside his ideology and written something honest and positive about President Donald Trump. Vox senior corresponde…
My grandmother planted a weeping willow tree in the front yard of her home on Pigeon Creek when she was 8 years old, I think she said.
A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week:
There’s a narcissistic, childish bully in the West Virginia Statehouse. And, regrettably, Mercer County put him there.
It rolled up off of one wall and bounced like a loose ball up against the other – virtually a deafening surge of noise. That was only one feat…
As a human, I can wholeheartedly say that humans are strange creatures. We are creatures of habit, we don’t like change and God forbid a telev…
Maybe the most ridiculous if also the most common progressive complaint about Republicans refusing to impeach President Donald Trump is that h…
As a human, I can wholeheartedly say that humans are strange creatures. We are creatures of habit, we don’t like change and God forbid a telev…
Last Thursday, I put on rain gear and headed out while rain was drenching the region and waterways were coming out of their banks. I decided t…
10:30 a.m., at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluefield (Bluewell). Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton.
2 p.m., at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell. Burial will follow at Mitchem Ridge Cemetery on Burke Mountain.
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