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Opinion

Today’s workplace needs a little more ‘Gung Ho!’

Columnists

My wife, Rishy, and I are owners of the Beloit Sky Carp baseball team, the high-A minor league affiliate of the Miami Marlins. I received a nice note from an employee saying they liked that I had ended an email with the words “gung ho!” I replied with a group message explaining a ...

Coercive tactics

Columnists

In the category of oldies but goodies is the long-forgotten non-aggression pact. The most famous was the one agreed to by Germany and the Soviet Union in August 1939. Now it has been revived in a peculiar way in the form of tariff agreements. President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on ...

Education emergency in Randolph

Columnists

In early August Randolph County Board of Education had a visit from state Board of Education efficiency experts explaining why our county has Emergency status now. Our BOE must create a plan to trim the RCS budget over the next five years or the State will take over the management of our ...

Boos & Applause

Editorials

Applause to the emergency crew workers who performed a water rescue, saving the lives of two individuals in Barbour County last week. The two individuals were rescued from the Tygart Valley River in the area of Cove Run late Thursday night, Barbour County officials said. A man and a woman were ...

Reader wants to keep Harman open

Letters to the Editor

Harman and Pickens schools are not the Randolph County Board of Education’s problem. The problem has been mismanagement. Us outlying country people’s kids are becoming just a number, rather than growing up with the potential of being able to play sports, after-school curriculum and ...

TVHS grad asks that school not be closed

Letters to the Editor

I keep seeing in the news where there is serious consideration to close Tygart Valley High School at Mill Creek and send all those students to Elkins High School. Please consider the following and these facts carefully before this serious action is undertaken. If this action is taken, then ...