Follansbee Community Days remains one of the most-anticipated celebrations in the Northern Panhandle — and Tri-State Area. It’s a three-day festival that opens Friday, with the parking lot of the Follansbee Community House being the center of the activities. There will be plenty to do for ...

Residents of the Tri-State Area see themselves as a tough, self-sufficient, independent bunch. At least that’s the narrative generations have used to fuel a “pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps” approach to many things. But the reality might be something different, as one study suggests ...

We cannot describe the spirit of freedom any better than those who created the document which led the nation toward the actions which we celebrate today. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the course of human events, it becomes ...

The Fourth of July is a time traditionally shared with family picnics and get-togethers. Many of those celebrations will be accompanied by a few bangs, booms and splashes of color and sparks. And, while we hope everyone will have a good time, we ask, once again, that you leave the fireworks ...

On what will become a four-day weekend for many West Virginians, there will be ample opportunity for celebrating the summer and our Independence Day. But as we do so, the West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program reminds drivers that, to ensure their personal freedom, they’d better ...

We ask everyone to take a moment during the next couple of days and remember that, despite of whatever differences we have, there are few nations in the world where citizens are able to gather to celebrate the freedoms residents of the United States of America too often taken for ...