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Adapt to strengths

By Greg Kozera In 2024, our high school soccer team started the season with only one win in our first seven games. We won our last seven games, outscoring opponents 31-1, and won the 2024 West Virginia boys state AA-A championship. After the first seven games, head coach Joe came to me and said, “Coach, I know their dream (the boys) is to win the state championship. I don’t think we have the horses to do it.” Smiling, I said, “Looks like we will have to develop them.” As a coaching staff we developed the talent. Something very important also happened that I didn’t ...

No matter your label, accept Jesus’ offer

By Mark Wilmoth This story bothers some folks. First, there’s the problem of the text. Look up John 8:1-11 in your Bible and you’ll probably see a footnote that reads “The earliest manuscripts do not include John 7:53-8:11.” Why waste time studying a text that might not even belong in the Bible? Well, you should know that there are over 400 Greek manuscripts (The New Testament was originally written in the Greek language.) that include this text. Almost all Bible scholars accept this as a genuine story; the scholarly debate doesn’t concern its legitimacy or accuracy. The ...

Modern protestors often create chaos

Tensions escalated in Minneapolis recently after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by Federal law enforcement officers after Good allegedly used her vehicle to target an ICE officer. The New York Post later reported that Good was involved with ICE Watch, a loose coalition of activists in Minneapolis working to track and disrupt ICE operations. Acting on her anti-ICE views, Good was uncooperative in a traffic stop and accelerated her vehicle toward an ICE officer, who reportedly shot Good in fear for his own life and safety. A day later, ICE officers in Portland, Oregon, ...

Explosive Cyclogenesis and the 1950 Blizzard

Pardon the weather-speak. I’m talking about the Blizzard of November 24-27, 1950. It was a POWERFUL storm with records that still stand. Snowfall was 27 inches for Marietta, 37 for Parkersburg. It was like a wintertime land-based hurricane. “Explosive cyclogenesis” means that the storm ...

MOV Climate Corner: Standard of Living – Questioned

Aldo Leopold, a man considered by many as the father of modern conservation wrote, “Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.” That was around 1949, and I think that if Aldo could fathom what the world has become now, he would consider not only the cost to things natural, wild, and free, but also the welfare of mankind. Aldo’s world was shaped by events closer to his time like the passing of the ...

Icy rivers should be enjoyed from a distance

With winter comes cold, and with cold comes ice. Ice on our roadways adds danger to our daily commutes, it’s something that northern drivers learn to deal with, but it still causes havoc with our lives when it closes schools and cancels events. Ice on the rivers though, is a ...