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Glass soda pop bottles meant money back in the day
BY KYLE LOVERN Many kids today have money and a steady allowance. They never have to worry about buying things, and that’s OK. But back in the 1960s, we would turn in reusable pop bottles for money. If you lived near a grocery store in most communities, you could turn in those glass bottles for…
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Government taking away your gas cooking stove?
BY KYLE LOVERN I’m sure many of you grew up in a time when your moms or grandmothers cooked on a gas stove. Many of us heated our homes with gas heaters or furnaces. We had an electric cooking stove in our old home place at Nolan, but we heated our home in the winter…
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Remember those who gave all in the Vietnam War
BY KYLE LOVERN Growing up in the 1960s, I paid attention to current events even though I was young – especially the Vietnam War, which was in full swing from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. I remember watching Walter Cronkite on the news and some reporters in-country bringing home the news of Southeast Asia…
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Rhubarb pie and memories of the past
BY KYLE LOVERN I often write about my memories of the past and growing up. Recently a photo of a rhubarb and strawberry pie on social media brought back many memories. My mother, Charlotte Hope, was a great cook and made everything from scratch. (I know most everyone thinks their mom is a great cook.)…
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Is artificial intelligence getting too powerful?
BY KYLE LOVERN Artificial intelligence, or AI, has some people concerned, including me. I am old school. However, I do love the internet and computers and how they have made some things better. But it is weird when you surf the web for an item – for example, tennis shoes – then you start getting…
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Appalachian pawpaw fruit making a comeback
BY KYLE LOVERN Growing up, my late father Sam Lovern talked about the pawpaw fruit, nicknamed the Appalachian banana. It was a fruit tree that grew wild in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky mountains. He talked about how good it was and how he, his brother and friends ate them when roaming the hills…
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Spare women from competing against transgender athletes
BY KYLE LOVERN The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to prevent biological males from competing as transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports at schools nationwide. I applaud this bill. However, President Joe Biden said he would veto the bill. I am sorry, but those born male should not be allowed to compete against…
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Gun control is not the answer to mass shootings
BY KYLE LOVERN School shootings and workplace violence are terrible, but taking guns away from everyone is not the answer. I have my concealed permit. I’ve had it for a few years now. West Virginia has a reciprocal agreement with several other states, including Kentucky, where if you have a permit, it will be honored…
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Kyle’s Korner: We’ve come a long way from party-line phones
BY KYLE LOVERN When growing up at Nolan, not many people had telephones in their homes. It was indeed a luxury to have a phone in your house. I can remember having ours at a young age while in grade school and being able to call a couple of friends who also had the privilege…
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Remembering the devastating 1977 Tug River flood
If you lived through it, you will never forget BY KYLE LOVERN The devastating and horrendous Tug Fork River flood of 1977 forever changed the Tug Valley area. The natural disaster overwhelmed residents who lived along the watershed in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, including Mingo, Pike and Martin counties. Torrential rains fell from…
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