Crisis Chronicles

Posted on June 18, 2025

Around 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30th, my phone started buzzing with weather alerts. This spring has been particularly int...

Posted on February 12, 2025

Every February, we recognize Heart Month, a time to raise awareness about cardiovascular health and encourage everyone...

Posted on November 02, 2024

It was around September 25 that Hurricane Helene started gathering enough intensity to gain a significant amount of attent...

Posted on October 05, 2024

Tales from the desk of an emergency manager ... Opioid addiction has been devastating our state for years, but a...

Posted on September 07, 2024

Tales from the Desk of an Emergency Manager. Episode 3. National Preparedness Month: "Disasters Don't Wa...

Posted on September 10, 2023

Through almost anything in life, the pivotal point of success and failure is almost critical at the crux of communication....

Posted on August 18, 2023

The job of an emergency manager is relatively new. The Stafford act, signed into law by President Carter in 1988, created...

From the Bench: With March Madness Still...

There’s nothing more exciting on the sports front than a packed house that produces that charged up atmosphere t...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: City Sisters at Benedum Air...

This photo, from the 1940s, and shows sisters Betty and Jerry Hess at the Benedum Airport - today's North Central Wes...

Posted by Dick Duez
ToquiNotes: A Friend to the End and a Fr...

I am not sure of the exact time I met William Howard “Bill” McCartney. What I am sure of is that it was li...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
The Grapevine: Bidding Farewell to Fathe...

Most of the members of the Immaculate Conception Church of Clarksburg are getting ready to bid farewell well to Father...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen