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Powering Up Consumer Savings With Natural Gas

Natural gas consumers can expect a 40% drop in home heating bills this winter, the West Virginia Public Service Commission recently confirmed. This, in its own right, is something worth celebrating, but it also speaks to the many ways local natural gas and oil development deliver for our state and all who live here — especially in today’s inflationary market. “It is gratifying to see the wholesale prices coming down this year,” PSC Chair Charlotte Lane said. “I know this will make a big difference to West Virginia families this winter, and that means a lot.” No stranger ...

Christmas Memories Made at the White House

My family and I have a relatively new tradition of traveling to iconic places around Christmastime. It started close to home a few years ago with a visit to the Greenbrier Resort. Then we trekked to New York City to see the classic sights, such as the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center and ...

Santa Claus Will Come

And finally it’s Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia O’Hanlon, who asked whether there was a Santa Claus, since some of her friends had told her there was none. The editorial was one of those pieces which attracted instant attention and has become one of the classics of Christmas lore, reprinted annually in thousands of newspapers across the ...

The Other Wise Man Who Found the King

As a child, my favorite Christmas story was a little volume, a gift from my mother, Henry Van Dyke’s “The Story of the Other Wise Man.” As Van Dyke related the story there were four Magi, not three, who set out to find the newborn King of the Jews — Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar and Artaban. Each was bearing rich gifts. Artaban’s were three jewels — a sapphire, a ruby and a pearl. Scholars all, specializing in astrology, their studies and observations had indicated the approximate time and place of the birth. By prearrangement they started out separately from their homes ...

Let the Spirit of Christmas Guide You at All Times

Newspapers carried the joyous news of the birth of “Prince of a Baby” on Sept. 16, 1984. Princess Diana, with Prince Charles at her side, gave birth after nine hours of labor to her second child—a boy weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces, Buckingham Palace announced. “He’s a lovely baby,” said Prince Charles, who rushed from his wife’s side to a phone to call his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, at BalmoralCastle in Scotland and Diana’s father, Earl Spencer. A crowd of hundreds of well-wishers outside St. Mary’s Hospital broke into cheers as a town crier from the Mayfair ...

Marshall Memo: Happenings in Cameron; the CVB; and Rosbys Rock

Cameron Elementary PT4 Kids recently sponsored a “Penny War” at which children at the grade school took pennies to their class to raise money for a local organization. This year’s recipient was the Blue and Gold Christian Center. PT4 Kids President Amy Stern and her sons, Dexdon and Zaiden, brought several hundred dollars in pennies with some silver and paper to the Center. This was exciting for the kids attending “Kidz Kamp.” This money will be used for food and supplies for the various ministries operating at the Blue and Gold Christian Center. THE BGCC expressed a big ...