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MOV Climate Corner: The truth matters

The war on climate science has returned with a vengeance. The Energy Department recently banned several words including “climate change” and “emissions.” Bipartisan approved renewable energy projects are being canceled. Environmental agencies are being dismantled. Climate science based policies are under attack. These hostile attacks are using a report of the recently disbanded sham “Climate Working Group,” which was stacked with climate contrarians. The fact is that the fundamental principle of global warming is considered “settled science.” This means it is ...

Fort Frye provided refuge during an uncertain time

Long before there was a school district named Fort Frye there was a fort named Fort Frye. Same location, just different points in history. Shortly after members of the Ohio Company set up shop in Marietta in 1788 they began to notice the abundance of flat boats floating right past the ...

Passion: Fine for relationships, NOT governing

This week, a group from our church took a day trip to the Greenbrier Resort to see fall colors. We planned months ago to leave Charleston at 8:30 a.m. on Amtrak riding to White Sulphur Springs, arriving at noon and having lunch. Each person or couple could choose whatever they wanted to do ,like visit shops, walk around the grounds, do the bunker tour or relax and read. We planned to catch Amtrak back leaving White Sulphur Springs at 5:05 p.m., returning to Charleston by 8:30. Many in our group had not ridden a train for years and were looking forward to the train ride. At midnight ...

Learning to get along with one another

By Mark Wilmoth Do your prayers usually begin with a phrase like “Dear Father in Heaven”? Bible scholar R.C. Sproul wrote in 1996: “A few years ago, a German scholar was doing research in New Testament literature and discovered that in the entire history of Judaism—in all existing books of the Old Testament and all existing books of extra-biblical Jewish writings dating from the beginning of Judaism until the tenth century A.D. in Italy—there is not a single reference of a Jewish person addressing God directly in the first person as “Father.” The Jews might refer to God ...

The Black Walnut: A versatile and valuable native tree

J.J. Barrett WVU Extension Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! A chance of frost is in the forecast as the growing season winds its way down. Many gardeners perform a fall cleanup and plant a cover crop such as winter wheat in the garden space. However, vegetable gardening can ...

Nahum Ward to Scots: Have I got a deal for you

Nahum Ward was a prominent early Mariettan, owner at various times of 100,000 acres of land and of a showcase home in Marietta. Nahum Ward was serious-minded, but he dreamed big. He promoted his land with newspaper ads in the eastern U.S. He even made a year-long trip in 1823 to Scotland ...