ELKINS — We welcome the Christmas season with open arms and anticipation that some special moments have arrived. How fortunate we are that we live in an area where people actually devote days and weeks toward filling our lives with attractive displays of color and delight that provide ...
November is here! We’ve set back our clocks and have watched the leaves turn a beautiful fall color. We are also beginning to feel the temperatures drop and have observed students wearing their coats and warmer clothes to school. We had an exciting professional development opportunity for teachers on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, with the 95% Group. Twenty-one educators were provided with step-by-step solutions for providing effective oral language support in the daily classroom structure and completed a lesson plan framework. As we continue to move through November, ...
The warm late October weather we became accustomed to has finally disappeared and we are awakening to colder winds as winter is edging to the starting gate. It is time to watch for a sunny day so one more autumn walk can be taken and allow us to contemplate what lies ahead of us and what we ...
Cooler mornings and evenings are coming our way as October makes its bid to be our favorite month. With autumn forest colors reaching peak, it is one of our most beautiful times of the year, but little children will remind us as they search in attics for costume apparel that Halloween is on ...
Summer has been so appreciated this year. As August is upon us, one recognizes that enjoyable activities have returned to our schedules and being able to be part of our social order has done us all lots of good. While vaccinated folks have considerably more freedom to come and go, a ...
If putting a real splash into your summer is a goal, one may gather the family and head for Route 119 North out of Philippi to find Tygart Lake State Park on Grafton’s edge. A new and wonderful addition has been constructed among the facilities there and is known as the Adventure Lake ...
