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Girls' Flag Football Program Is a Touchdown for St. Clairsville

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A new chapter is being written on the field in St. Clairsville — one where girls are suiting up, pulling flags and proving the gridiron isn’t just for the boys. The St. Clairsville Parks and Recreation Department’s launch of girls flag football at the elementary level marks an important step in creating more inclusive opportunities in youth athletics. Ranging from kindergarten through third grade, the athletes capped their inaugural season in exciting fashion: playing their final game during halftime of a junior varsity contest at Red Devils Stadium. That halftime showcase ...

Aquatic Conservation Center a Great Addition at West Liberty University

Editorials

West Liberty University has put itself in exclusive company with its latest addition. The university last week cut the ribbon on its new Appalachian Aquatic Conservation Center. That center is now just one of four at universities across the United States. You’d have to travel to Blacksburg, Virginia, and Virginia Tech to find the next closest. With the new facility, West Liberty University hopes to be the nation’s top university in the conservation of crayfish and spotted turtles. According to Zachary Loughman, chairman of organismal biology, ecology and zoo science departments at ...

Helping the United Way

Editorials

United Way organizations across the country serve their communities by connecting those in need to resources to support them as they face their challenges. “When you donate to United Way, you help kids succeed. You help adults secure jobs. And you help families become healthier. Your support fuels our mission and creates stronger communities where all can thrive,” according to its website. Plenty of financial support comes from individuals, of course, but there are also reliable community partners who make a big difference for the organization. One of those partners is the ...

'Culineering' Challenge Is a Great Way To Learn

Editorials

For high school students to be most dialed into their educations, how they learn must be much more than just desk-centric, skill-and-drill lessons. There needs to be some ingenuity, some fun, an opportunity for those students to utilize their imagination and creativity. An event hosted this past week at Oglebay Park Resort did just that. High school teams from across West Virginia came to the resort for the fourth-annual Culineering Challenge, a competition that allowed both aspiring chefs and aspiring engineers to work together on a project. In this competition, high school teams ...

The TikTok of the Clock

Local Columns

The news business is constantly changing and that means changing with the times. So, reluctantly, I have started a news TikTok. I’m not a fan of TikTok. I don’t like how the app is designed or how it’s meant to keep a user swiping for minutes and sometimes hours. I don’t like its connection to the Communist Chinese government and how it constantly scrapes information and data. The problem is that is where the young’uns are, and if you want the teens and young adults to read your news stories, you have to be where they are. And TikTok is where they are. I don’t know when ...

Electricity Prices Are Soaring — Coal Is a Key Solution

Local Columns

Electricity bills are climbing almost everywhere, and the reasons have little to do with ideology. Three forces are driving prices higher: massive new utility spending on infrastructure, rising natural gas costs, and growing capacity shortages in electricity markets as power demand soars from the AI revolution. In some states, prices have jumped more than 60% since 2022. The Trump Administration inherited this mess and now has its work cut out for it. The strategy the administration has embraced is built around reinforcing dispatchable power — the generating resources that ...