Marshall County residents got into the Christmas spirit on Saturday thanks to the annual Marshall County Christmas Parade on Jefferson Avenue. The parade featured floats by local businesses and organizations along with marching bands, dance teams, scouts, horses, fire engines, police cars ...
Recently, my associate dean at Ohio State University’s Lima campus sent the faculty a reprint of an earlier Chronicle of Higher Education story on students’ demands for flexibility post-COVID. For those of us who missed the original article in February, it was an interesting and informative read. Chronicle senior writer Beckie Supiano focused on the challenges and frustrations of students and professors as universities strive to offer a “normal college education” three years removed from the pandemic. She effectively summarized our current state: “Everyone keeps telling ...
Lexington, Mass., is a peaceful town, famous for being an ideal place to raise children. Young couples move there from everywhere so that their children can attend its public schools, which in disproportionate numbers send students to the finest universities in the land. Lexington has a robust library serving its hypereducated residents, and its own symphony. It is a community of bake sales and charity drives and back-to-school nights. A walk into Lexington Center one recent morning revealed that heart-wrenching posters had been pasted onto a window of a vacant store. They said ...
At least California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, admits it. On the eve of a visit to San Francisco by China’s Xi Jinping, the city somehow, someway cleared out downtown homeless encampments. Newsom flat-out cops to the reason why. The governor said, “Folks say, ‘Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’ That’s true. Because it’s true. But it’s also true for months and months and months, prior to APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), we’ve been having different conversations.” I ...
By BOB HERTZEL WV News MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It was supposed to be a Blue and Gold Saturday at Mountaineer Field, with West Virginia finishing off its home season against Cincinnati. Instead, it turned into a Greene and White day for the Mountaineers. It was a day where 12 players would walk on Senior Day and day when Don Nehlen, the Hall of Fame coach, who turned around the direction of the West Virginia program back in 1980 and led it into national prominence, would stand there before 43,588 fans, friends and relatives — five of the grandchildren and nine great grandchildren ...
By ANDREW GRIMM For The Intelligencer MADISON, W.Va. — The rest of the state Is certainly paying attention to Weir High now — they have no choice because the Red Riders are in the final four. Malachi Stromile fired a strike over the middle to fellow senior Corey Lyons for the game-winning score with 33 seconds to go in the fourth quarter to propel No. 5 Weir to the Class AA state semifinals with a thrilling 35-33 victory on the road over No. 4 Scott on Saturday. “They’re all finding out. We didn’t get a whole lot of attention coming off a playoff season last year, ...
