Love and Light

Posted on June 05, 2025

One of the simple pleasures of living in Bridgeport, West Virginia is tasting the little drop of nectar inside the rip...

Posted on May 21, 2025

It’s graduation week for many of our high school students. The experience of graduation provides young adults wi...

Posted on May 14, 2025

Rest is best! It has taken me quite some time and a LOT of life to come to this realization. Sleep is now a priority which...

Posted on May 07, 2025

I remember like it was yesterday running my first ever race. It was about ten years ago, and it was the Clarksburg 10k...

Posted on April 16, 2025

A couple years ago, my Martha Stewart friend, Katie, invited me to visit her beautiful field of zinnias. Katie’s...

Posted on April 09, 2025

Habits are important for our health and happiness. What we implement into our regular routine determines what we will cult...

Posted on April 02, 2025

Life is NOT easy. In fact, it’s part of the human experience for life to suck from time to time. Often times, we...

Posted on March 26, 2025

Our words mean so very much! They have the power to change someone’s entire day for the better. They also have t...

Posted on March 19, 2025

Did you know that Wednesday, March 19 is “National Let’s Laugh Day?” They say that laughter is the B...

Posted on March 12, 2025

Why are we all Negative Nellies? What happened to make us all negative beings in our culture and world today? ...

From the Bench: Trying to Legislatively ...

It did not take long, nor should it have taken long. It should have never needed to have taken place at all. ...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: Wayne Jamison and Team Cele...

The exact date, location, and event shown in this photo is not known, but it is decades ago when the late Wayne "...

Posted by Dick Duez
It's Happening: Fond Memories of J. Eddi...

On Jan. 8, the former Leeson’s Import Motors storage facility was demolished, leaving a large pile of rubble on a little p...

Posted by Julie Perine
ToquiNotes: BHS has a National Coach of ...

There may be some confusion for those reading this blog. The only point of that confusion is that it may seem like a s...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Off the Shelf: Looking at Library Progra...

Some of our most popular programs for children are our Storytime programs every week for different age groups. These progr...

Posted by Angela Spatafore
The Grapevine: Getting Ready for a Speci...

If you were to pick up a document and it started with the sentence, “when in the course of human events, we hold...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
The Cyber Beacon: Community Cyber Awaren...

Editor's Note: Blogger Joe Earley will see a disruption in his blog in the months ahead. Earley is running for the West Vi...

Posted by Joe Earley