Many of our communities have an ongoing battle with abandoned and dilapidated properties. Houses and businesses left to decay, with no care, become a nuisance, creating health concerns, attracting rodents and other animals, and, often, becoming an issue of safety as they fall apart or become ...
Last weekend saw the return of the Festival of Nations in Weirton, following a gap of about six years. I previously wrote about how this had become one of my favorite events over the years, and, I must admit, it didn’t disappoint. The modern version of the festival began in 2009 and ran ...
We have well and truly entered spring, and with it will come thoughts of proms, graduations, summer jobs and post-secondary choices for high school seniors. It’s also time to brace for the inevitable “So, what are you going to study?” from friends and relatives curious about what comes ...
To the Editor, Some time ago I met a woman whose son had died in the Vietnam War. I met her at a Gold Star Family Weekend, an annual event at Camp Dawson in West Virginia. I am a Gold Star father and a Vietnam veteran. Her son was a member of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol when he was ...
It’s hard to believe it is almost Easter. We blinked. And that new year we were all celebrating just yesterday? Well, that year is already a fourth of the way over. If you made a New Year’s Eve resolution, did you stick to it, or did you abandon it weeks ago because it was harder ...
Many years ago, when I was in Boy Scouts with Troop 65 out of Memorial Baptist Church in Weirton, we had a great local history presentation by the late Chuck Cronin. Cronin gave a wonderful talk on Weirton Steel during World War II. In addition to the presentation, he brought in a 16 mm ...