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Kyle’s Korner: Remembering some old high schools and mascots
BY KYLE LOVERN With the consolidation of high schools throughout the years in the Mountain State, many smaller and charming high schools are now nothing more than memories. Many of us have fond recollections of the sports programs at these rural schools that no longer exist. Countless numbers of those schools had some really unique
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Newspaper reporting, content never more relevant
BY BRETT WESNER Newspaper reporting and content have never been more relevant. We all have stories of readers desperately seeking reliable information about COVID-19 during the pandemic and turning to us to deliver accurate national and state health departments’ evolving assessments as well as local reporting on treatment options in our communities. We at NNA
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Friends of the Tug Fork River, DEP and REAP deserve praise for tire cleanup
The Friends of the Tug Fork River organization is the driving force behind the recent tire cleanup of the Tug River between Warfield and Kermit. The group received help from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and REAP (Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan) to remove hundreds of tires from the waterway in the last couple
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Make today a good day
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Life is one day at a time. You don’t have tomorrow. You hope for tomorrow, but it’s not guaranteed. We plan for tomorrow. We save for tomorrow and look forward to tomorrow. Today is what we have. If today is the last day of your life, how is it going? If
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Social media may be fun, but for the facts, we need newspapers
BY AL CROSS I love social media. They keep me in touch with dozens of friends whom I might otherwise have contact with just every few years or every few decades. They let me share articles that I think bring greater understanding of a subject, usually with a comment of my own, and enjoy similar
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‘Cult of positive thinking’
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller “Nickel and Dimed,” which showed that hard-working people simply weren’t making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, “Bright-Sided.” It argued that the cult
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America’s foreigner flood: Spread the love around
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Nearly 5 million foreign nationals have entered the United States since Biden became president. Some people call them undocumented immigrants, some call them unauthorized immigrants, many call them illegal immigrants. If they were entering the country legally with proper documentation, then we would call them documented immigrants or legal immigrants. Wyoming
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What’s in a name?
There could be a lot BY KYLE LOVERN What’s in a name? Most of you may know that Mingo County is named for an Indian tribe while neighboring Logan County was named for the Chief of that tribe. But what about some other area towns and villages? Martin County was founded in 1870 and is
