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Local children Wellness Weekend winners

Another Memorial Day has come and gone, and with it so has another Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend. Although it has always been an important element of the overall family race experience, this year we really focused on making the Tiny Tot Trot even bigger and better. We took several steps in that direction, moving the event away from Water Street and into Heritage Port where we had more room for fun and games. We had energetic volunteers who were happy to get out on the lawn and play games with the children, and our new bubble machines were a huge hit with the kids! We also ...

Belmont County gearing up for exciting summer

Belmont County is gearing up for an exciting summer full of events! From annual festivals to one-of-a-kind local events, it’s officially festival season! You and your family can enjoy attending one of our 30-plus festivals that celebrate heritage, history, our communities and of course — food! It’ll be easy to keep busy all summer long in friendly, beautiful Belmont County! With Memorial Day being considered the unofficial kick-off to summer travel and events season, and I can tell you Belmont County has hit the ground running. This weekend alone, we have the 20th Annual ...

How you can compromise and have a great marriage

Memorial Day last weekend made me think about those who gave up their lives for our freedom. I also thought about my Dad, a U.S. Marine who fought in the Pacific during WWII. As kids, Dad told us a little about some of the battles he was in. The Marines gave him books with photos of those battles. I wish I had asked Dad what he was thinking while in the landing craft heading to the beach at Tarawa. Dad knew he would have to wade ashore under heavy enemy fire with no cover. Dad was in the second wave of Marines to hit the beach. He stepped over and around dead Marines, some were his ...

The importance of building teams for success

Teamwork is essential for success in sports and in business. A few years ago, I was part of West Virginia’s first Veterans Cup Team. The Veterans Cup is a national soccer tournament for adult teams over 40 years of age. Beckley was hosting the tournament and there wasn’t a team from West Virginia in it. Our club was asked to put together a team. We practiced together for two months. We played youth travel teams. We scrimmaged the University of Charleston’s soccer team. We thought we were ready. In Beckley, we lost all three games. We didn’t even score a goal. The process helped ...

Does the government work for us or against us?

“We may even cheer on those who ask us to ... forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear. ... And rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch In response to President Richard Nixon’s unlawful use of the FBI and the CIA to spy on his domestic political opponents in the early 1970s, Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It limits all ...

Why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the best of both worlds

The conventional wisdom about Republicans after the disastrous 2022 midterms is that they need to choose between two different types of candidates: forward-looking, reform-minded governors, and populist rabble-rousers. Or maybe they don’t: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is both. DeSantis is a conservative populist who takes on Disney, sends migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and fights the left’s woke agenda. But DeSantis is also a conservative reformer who delivers concrete results. During the pandemic, he kept Florida open and running. When storms hit, he was the model of a chief ...