If you are 21 or older, you are cordially invited “bling” in the new year with style and pizzazz at the inaugural Black and White Ball Tuesday, Dec. 31, and Wednesday, Jan. 1, at Valley Park in Hurricane.
... to the more than 400 Hot Diggity Dog 5K Run participants, who helped raise funds for the Putnam County Animal Shelter’s Spay/Neuter Fund on Thanksgiving Day.
This season, Buffalo girls basketball player Joni Smith finds herself in position to score after filling the team’s point guard spot last year.
I grew purple sweet potatoes for the first time this year. A friend gave me six slips. The plants were far more productive than other sweet potatoes I’ve grown.
West Teays Elementary School ESL teacher Rachelle Williams took a few spins on the oversized wheel, bought a few vowels, deduced some puzzle solutions and won runner-up honors on the long-running television game show “Wheel of Fortune” recently.
I have quite a few friends in the running community, and I think that is one of the reasons the sport will always be something special to me.
Thanksgiving weekend I came down with a serious case of “cabin fever.” I caught it during a holiday outing with my family.
Putnam Shoes For Children Founder Debbie Pye has announced the 2018-2019 school year will be the first year that the nonprofit, Putnam County-based organization will purchase winter shoes for area children in need.
In high school, my choir teacher took us all out caroling around the town of Nitro.
You may not see Mommy kissing Santa Claus this Saturday in Nitro, but the Big Guy is coming to town, anyway.
Some pet-sitters get paid in cash. Our customers pay us in limoncello — a fantastic lemon liqueur from Italy — or Christmas cookies.
There is so much going on this time of year, it is difficult to pick a topic to discuss. That’s why I am picking two.
The anticipation of a new season never gets old, even though I have now been through over 30 years of them. When I learned to ski in 1985, to tell you the truth, I didn’t have any idea what I was getting myself into. As I look back, other than spending time with my family, it is where I have…
A Christmas concert, “Repeat the Sounding Joy!,” will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at Forrest Burdette Memorial United Methodist Church in Hurricane.
Word of Light Community Church will be conducting a live Nativity at Valley Park in Hurricane on Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1.
November is National Diabetes Month, and, as such, it’s a timely reminder to remember the early symptoms of diabetes that could affect you or a family member.
Kyler Meeks paces Poca with his leadership and stellar defensive play in hopes to return the Dots boys basketball team back to postseason play this season.
I grew up in a house on the main street of a small West Virginia town during the ‘50s and ‘60s. We had a postage stamp yard. The remnants of my grandfather’s once-tended rose garden flanked the garage.
Earlier this year when my mother’s health began to fail, she made me promise two things.
The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a joyous time — an opportunity for families to get together and to show friends and family you love them. None of that should be taken for granted.
This weekend, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Charleston's West Side will host 28 West Virginia fine artists at the 16th River Arts Show and Sale, at 520 Kanawha Blvd., West, Charleston.
