Mary Ellen Haney

Welcome mats are out at Marion County schools, with students in their first-day duds, carrying new backpacks, and excited to make new friends and learn new skills as they begin the 2024-25 academic year.

Today's word of the week led me down the yellow brick road of discovery. Does this happen to you?

So soon! September is here already, and we begin to "wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage and welcome summer's ghost" (Henry Rollins, American singer, writer, spoken word artist,

Twenty-three years ago, on the second Tuesday of September, we awoke to see the storied twin towers of New York's World Trade Center crumble to earth. Scarcely believing our eyes,

I haven’t offered a recipe for several weeks, but I was inspired by a note written by longtime Clarksburg reader Hermilo Valero. From my recipes, Mr. Valero has made salmon

This week’s weird word is sternutation (Latin, mid-16th century), a noun that means “the action of sneezing”: “Ms. Franklin was trying to speak, but she was caught in a fit

Thus far, October has been an eventful month for our family. After an absence of too many years, my Ukrainian daughter, Liuda, arrived in Pittsburgh last Thursday.

Today’s Word of the Week is Nyctalopia (Greek, late 17th century), a noun meaning “The inability to see in dim light or at night. It’s also called “night blindness” and

Fall has officially arrived in Fairmont with the seasonal closing of Dairy Crème Corner on Saturday. I intended to stop by for a final baby-size chocolate cone (my favorite DCC

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness has never paid an adoption fee. Leppy, a beautiful striped kitty (an all-time favorite with my family), who arrived at my home in