The superintendent has recommended and the Randolph County Board of Education has approved the closure of Harman and North Schools. Pickens and Coalton have been given perhaps at most a one-year reprieve from closure. And now the school board seeks to increase our taxes through a levy or ...

At this time of Thanksgiving I just wanted to share some thoughts of a Thanksgiving day in Vietnam. I joined 2nd Bn, 5th Marines on Hill 69 at An Ton Bridge near Chu Lai in 1966. Several companies were up north near the DMZ on Operation Prairie and in late November 1966 our battalion ...

My children’s school is more than a place of academic instruction — it is a community where lasting relationships form, stability develops, and confidence grows. Harman School has provided my children with a supportive environment that nurtures their academic achievement, emotional ...

If your readers are concerned about feeding their kids and family, the rising cost of electricity and natural gas, the price of hamburger, inflation in general, losing their job, not getting paid for the job they are doing, and/or losing their home or farm, maybe it’s time to look at ...

There has been a great deal of fear surrounding the election of Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. The city of Elkins has already had a Democratic socialist mayor and that was me from 2009 to 2013. By bringing together a very diverse coalition of citizens ...

Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, stated last Friday that people who participated in the No Kings protests were Marxists, socialists, antifa advocates, anarchists, terrorists, and pro-Hamas. A member of the U.S. Congress should know better than to ...