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Hope for a bright future, is no myth

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Last Sunday Lynnda and I attended the Christmas Luncheon at the West Virginia Radio and TV Museum and Hall of Fame at Huntington. One of the presenters mentioned, “One of my claims to fame is, I was there and saw Chuck Yeager (the first man to break the sound barrier) fly his jet under the Southside Bridge in Charleston.” I have heard the story of Chuck Yeager flying his jet under the Southside Bridge over the Kanawha River in Charleston. It always sounded like folklore or a legend to me. Yeager confirmed in an interview, he flew an Airforce P-80 Shooting Star jet under ...

Birth

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Lanora Marie Mavis Walters was born Nov. 29, 2025, to Ariel Reese and Christopher Walters of Oak Hill. She was born at 8:41 p.m. at Marietta Memorial Hospital weighing 6 pounds and 13.8 ounces and measuring 19 and 3/4 inches. Lanora was welcomed home by sibling Salina Lynn Walters. Grandparents are Jeffery and Patricia Walters of Beaver, and Stacy Hammond of Oak Hill. Great-grandparents are Karen and Steve Adkins of Oak Hill.

Curiosities of the Mountains

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The first observers called them ancient ruins, ancient remains, antiquities, curiosities of the mountains. We know them today as Indian Mounds, or locally as the Marietta Earthworks. The word “curiosity” conveyed the sense of awe and mystery prevalent at the time. These were not the ...

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors

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When a group recites the Lord’s prayer together, the group leader may say, “Let’s use ‘trespasses” or “Let’s use ‘debts,” as in “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Both words work, but in Matthew’s account of the Lord’s prayer (Matthew 6:9-13), Jesus used the word “debts.” “Debts” reminds us that we owed God obedience and He didn’t get it. We abandoned His path and struck out on our own. Maybe it’s easier to understand this principle if we think about someone whose actions or words wounded deeply. They “owe” us. They have taken ...

Be thankful for failure and disappointments

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Thanksgiving was this week. We are thankful for our many blessings and successes. Did you ever think to be thankful for your failures and disappointments? They can be better teachers than success. Lynnda and I have been married for over 50 years. We are thankful for finding each other and being able to stay together for 50 years. We had bouts with cancer. Lynnda had a serious car accident in 2012. My job kept me on the road a lot early in my career and our marriage. We are blessed with three children and nine grandchildren. Lynnda and I connecting was a result of failures and ...

MOV Climate Corner: W.Va. residents deserve answers

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Residents of West Virginia are seeking answers to their questions about proposed data centers/ power plants in their communities. These include a 500-acre data center in Tucker County, the 150-acre ammonia plant and 200,000-square-foot data center which are part of the Adams Fork Energy project on the Logan-Mingo county line, and the Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) project in Mason County. The center proposed in Mason County will “include a power plant, hydrogen production facility, carbon dioxide storage facility, and data center complex.” There are no federal ...