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Hillsboro

With summer soon arriving, there is a desire to get moving and enjoy this amazing environment where we are proudly planted. We look for opportunities to take our families not only where they can recreate, but also learn about their rich heritage. Many long-held beliefs that formed our ...

Timeless View

In keeping with tradition, travels usually take me to either caloric or colorful events, and this year has been no exception. I had occasion in February to participate in Weston’s Annual West Virginia Museum of American Glass “Valentine’s Chocolate Lovers Feast” where at least 300 ...

Springtime Celebration

Springtime is special in these mountains. Physically away from metropolitan challenges, we can look out at the morning’s mist, see the sun coming up over a distant hill, and know we are recipients of God’s gifts to people. There seems to be a yearning at this time of year for certain ...

Sweet Mountain Trip

West Virginians have historically admired the colorful yellow sugar maple tree and, accordingly, made it our state tree. It has lit up our hills in autumn and now we find its springtime secret of bearing a sap that syrup producers can gather and heat to create a mouth-watering, ...

Delightful Experiences

During the past month, the most delightful experiences found me and offered such an important set of sights. One observation in nearby Buckhannon revealed a significant expansion of a successful fresh food operation. Another, an up-and-coming company near Elkins, has settled on Plantation ...

Holiday Anticipation

With snow flurries appearing in our skies and plummeting temperatures causing scarf-and-glove closet searches, we ready ourselves for the Christmas Season when people provide warm smiles, extra greetings and celebrate the birth of a baby in a manger who has saved all who have sought and ...