The U.S. Supreme Court has a serious ethics problem, and the latest revelations about Clarence Thomas should be alarming to every American. For 20 years, Thomas has accepted high-end, luxury, all-expenses-paid vacations around the world from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. And he never ...
Fentanyl, also known as Actiq, Duragesic or Sublimaze in its prescription form, is a potent painkiller developed in the 1960s to treat extreme pain. Some strains of Fentanyl can be 50 times more potent than morphine. Because Fentanyl is so potent, drug dealers have been progressively increasing ...
The Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) would like to thank the community for its amazing support of the 23nd Annual “This Race is for the Birds!” Between sponsors, participants and volunteers, the race raised over $20,000 to support PVAS’s mission to “preserve, restore and enjoy the ...
The Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association (SBPA) would like to thank supporters of the Shepherdstown Battlefield for protecting the 122-acre Osbourn/Far Away Farm on Trough Road from development or further deterioration. With your help, we raised over $79,000 for the American ...
It’s March 17 when I write this, which means that the 31 days set aside for Women’s History Month are already half-way over. I prefer to call this Women’s Future Month, especially in these times. We need all the optimism and forward-thinking energy we can get about the future for women ...
When I learned of West Virginia House Bill 2459, which was introduced by Delegate Wayne Clark (Charles Town, wayne.clark@wvhouse.gov), I was outraged. He knowingly put forth a bill that would negate the local zoning ordinances that do not allow industrial solar facilities to be built anywhere, ...
If you happened to be up around 3:30 a.m. last Saturday morning, you might have seen what looked like a lunar eclipse in the night sky. It was, in fact, the soul of Jack Young passing up to heaven, ready to take up new challenges. Jack had passed away, after a short period of time in our local ...
We, and our neighbors, have been witness to an amazing spring ritual in recent years. Some of the Canada geese who became parents by the stream, Fountain Rock Spring, in Morgan's Grove Park, walk their fledglings across Morgan Grove Road to get to Morgan's Springs, either by walking along ...
All cultures believe in the sanctity and necessity of water. In our state, a bipartisan effort to save our West Virginia waters from the deadly and pervasive PFAS (forever chemicals) is currently before our legislature. According to West Virginia Public Radio, 130 of our drinking water ...
According to West Virginia Public Radio, PFAS “forever chemicals” have been found in 130 of our state’s drinking water supply systems. The network recently reported that the Eastern Panhandle is a “PFAS ‘hot zone,’ with unsafe levels found in 21 raw water supplies.” A federal ...