CHEERS to Brett Kuprowicz, a Bridgeport student, for representing Belmont County at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Although he was eliminated, he made his hometown proud. JEERS to word that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus is on the rise in some parts of the world and ...
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, signed on last week to be a cosponsor of a bill that would recognize May as National Foster Care Month. That resolution later passed. He was not alone, of course, in addition to sponsors Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., there were 14 ...
Belmont County Western Division Court Judge Eric Costine made an important decision last week, determining that the prosecutor’s office made the right call when it decided not to file criminal charges in the wake of an altercation at a high school football game in October. But he also ...
Well, all of that hard work I wrote about a couple of weeks ago paid off. My husband, Mike, performed his annual magic shows at Follansbee Primary School on Thursday, and he was a hit! Previously in this space, I wrote about his time-consuming preparations for those performances. He worked ...
the time, I didn’t realize how good college life was. Engineering classes were challenging with exams and projects but nothing like the real world. Stress and responsibility were low. I only had me to worry about. I had no bills to pay. My work-study job payed for entertainment and ...
Dear Editor, It is truly discouraging but quite obvious that current president Donald J. Trump, who also happens to be a convicted felon, when taking the U.S. presidential oath of office to begin his second term in the White House during his inauguration on January 20th 2025 swore that to the ...