LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

Parents still need to complete school return survey

  • By Randall Farley | Marion County School Superintendent

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging. As we continue planning for returning to school in August, we must also make sure that our plan has considerations, in all aspects, to foster the overall health and well-being of our students, staff and community members. We have cont… Read more

FAITH JOURNEYS

Paid in full

  • By Pastor Bill Rager Mount Zion Community Church Grant Town

The times we are living in right now are like a blast from the past! Read more

Make plans to volunteer or take part in July 7 food distribution

  • By Stephanie Cummons | Times West Virginian

July is a popular month for birthdays around here. My baby sister turned 33 Wednesday (and still doesn’t drive on the interstate) and in a few short weeks I turn 38. We have added friends to our birth month list over the years (and a couple of their babies), and when we gained Rudy into the … Read more

The times, they are a changin'

  • Tina Shaw, President Marion County Chamber of Commerce

We live in a new world. Business as usual is no longer the catch phrase for the small business industry and the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 has and will continue to have a devastating impact on small businesses and hourly workers. Most came to a complete stop in March laying off employees… Read more

FAITH JOURNEYS

God offers us true freedom

  • By Rev. D.D. Meighen | For The Times West Virginian

1 John 4:20: "Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen." Read more

Absence of a father

Absence of a father

  • By Frank Jarman | For The Times West Virginian

For the past eight years, we have held an annual baby shower for expectant families in Marion County. Two years ago, we shifted from a “baby shower” format to a “Connection Café” for new parents, hoping to draw some of the fathers, as well as the expectant mothers. Read more

Father’s leadership urgently needed

  • By Elton Slusser | For The Times West Virginian

The biological and unchanging law of reproduction allows a man to be a father. The title “father” is not earned and is a statement of fact. But beyond this title, and with much effort, love, and personal communication, this title can and should evolve into the endearing name of “dad.” Read more

In the image of God

  • By Rev. Jordan Trumble | For The Times West Virginian

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Read more

From diapers to diploma

  • By Elton Slusser |

It is commencement time again, and graduates will be given valuable advice on success in their oncoming life adventure. My thoughts concerning what I would tell the graduates stems from reflecting on two of my own life events: the high school graduation of our last grandchild and the birth o… Read more

LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

School district examining the return to classrooms

  • By Randall Farley | For The Times West Virginian

This year has presented various challenges for us in maintaining the high quality of education we are accustomed to providing our students. Staff of Marion County Schools are completing the final tasks to close the 2019-2020 school year. Obstacles of this year’s closure will extend it throug… Read more

FARMINGTON COLUMN

Sign up now for the online food handlers class

  • By Stephanie Cummons | Times West Virginian

Stephen King is most noted for his horror and suspense. His books range from the really out there to those that leave you haunted and questioning the world as you know it. Read more

FAITH JOURNEYS

The Lord's Prayer and George Floyd

  • By Rev. D.D. Meighen | For The Times West Virginian

Luke 11:2-4: He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.’ Read more

FAITH JOURNEYS

Why, God, why?

  • By Rev. Valerie Gittings | For The Times West Virginian

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place” — Acts 2:1 Read more

WHITE HALL COLUMN

Middletown Commons keeps taking shape

  • By Claudia Holbert | For The Times West Virginian

Is there anything any more beautiful than the rhododendron blooms? Everywhere you go you can see them in our area. The flowers at the stoplight at the Commons are pretty too, and if you go down Route 73 past Boothsville, you can see hundreds and hundreds of them in white and lavender along t… Read more

OUR VIEW

Caution urged in reopening

For a spell last week, it seemed that all that was needed to get the greenlight to reopen a certain type of business was to call Gov. Jim Justice. Read more

Coach Neal Brown rolls our character development program

Coach Neal Brown rolls our character development program

  • By Bob Hertzel | For The Times West Virginian

MORGANTOWN — Coach Neal Brown is not only building football teams in his program as it enters its second year at West Virginia, but he plans to build men, too, out of his players as he introduced the “The 5th Quarter Program.” Read more

Obituaries

Barber III, Charles

Charles Ray Barber III, 23 of Fairmont continued on from us on July 6, 2020. He reunites with father Charles Ray Barber, Jr., Grandfather Charles Ray "Chill" Barber I, and Great Grandfathers Harold S. Williams and William Earl Slider; and Aunt Susan Denise Slider. Ray is remembered by his mo…

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