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Marmalade: Sunshine in a Jar

WHEELING — Orange marmalade doesn’t care if the sky is gray. For at least a couple of hours, it will turn your kitchen into a steamy, citrus-scented slice of the tropics. Canning captures the best of every season that way, noted Cheryl Kaczor of the West Virginia University Extension ...

Winter Can Be The Perfect Time To Get Outside

BELMONT — Sometimes, Popsicle cold is what makes a good hike, according to John Hickenbottom, a park naturalist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Hickenbottom, who was visiting Barkcamp State Park in Belmont for the day, couldn’t help but check off some reasons that winter ...

How Local Can You Go?

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register MOUNDSVILLE — Is it possible — in a real, 2023 kind of way — to grow up, train for a career and launch a successful adulthood without leaving the Ohio Valley and family roots in the dust? Maybe not in every case, but food truck entrepreneur ...

The Ghost Of Post Office Past

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — The terrazzo-floored, marble-walled lobby is quiet in a sanctuary-on-a-Monday-morning kind of way. Only two of the dozen or so aluminum-grilled windows that once bustled with an entire city’s worth of all things postal are open. ...

If You Rebuild It…

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — It’s cold and raining-snowing, and there’s nothing remotely cozy inside 722 and 724 Main Street. There’s only the steel beams that are keeping the walls from caving in and the bit of rubble that remains on the floor after both ...