Sometimes I wish w all could enjoy the simple things in life the way children often do. I had the chance to spend some time with several young relatives last week, and I had a lot of fun doing almost nothing at all. We didn’t need to go anywhere special — the home of my brother and ...

Last week we were in Florida for the Plastic News Executive Forum. While we were here I wanted to see my friend, Al, who is fighting cancer. We spent an afternoon with him and his wife in January. Unfortunately he was in the hospital and we couldn’t visit. I’m glad we spent the time ...

Today we launch our annual progress edition — six special sections published over the course of three days that take a look at various aspects of life in the Ohio Valley. This effort is a joint project that we worked on with our sister publications The Intelligencer and Wheeling ...

Super Bowl LVII made history in several ways. One of them is Autumn Lockwood. At only 29, she made Black history this year by becoming the first Black woman to coach in the Super Bowl. Not only that, she has a connection to the Ohio Valley. She is one of the Philadelphia Eagles’ coaching ...

The Butterfly Effect is a hypothesis presented to the New York Academy of Science in 1963 by Edward Lorenz. His theory simply stated is: A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of ...

I was honored this past week to have the chance to speak to the Barnesville Rotary Club. Dr. Douglas Huff, my eye doctor, extended the invitation and told me I could talk about any topic of my choosing. While I pondered leading a discussion about Ohio history and the township system that was ...