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Opinion

Coming Together for Friends and Neighbors

Editorials

The last week has been a whirlwind for hundreds of Ohio County families devastated by the June 14 flooding in what now has become the largest single mass casualty incident in recent memory. Consider: - Eight dead and one still reported as missing. Among the dead were a mother and her ...

Easterseals Event Was Huge Success

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: On behalf of the Chippewa Lake Water Ski Show Team we want to thank Easterseals, the city of Wheeling and the community who attended the Ohio River Splashtacular. As team show director for this event, I spent time working with Easterseals and Betsy Bethel-McFarland and ...

I’m Worried for W.Va. Amid Scientific Funding Cuts

Local Columns

Growing up in West Virginia, I was fascinated by the science in nature surrounding me — the deer quietly disappearing into the forest’s edge, the blinking lightning bugs dotting my backyard, the exposed rock layers drawn alongside our winding country roads. Before I even understood being a ...

Looting Has No Place Here

Editorials

As residents in Triadelphia and Valley Grove began the recovery process last Sunday from the flash flooding that claimed eight lives, it was heartwarming to see the strength of our community on display: neighbors helping neighbors recover from the single deadliest incident in recent memory in ...

A Chaotic Start to Trump’s Second Term

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: It is truly discouraging but quite obvious that current president Donald J. Trump, who also happens to be a convicted felon, when taking the U.S. presidential oath of office to begin his second term in the White House during his inauguration on Jan. 20, swore that to ...