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Letter to the editor: In the summers of 1951 and 1952, I went aboard the towboat Patrick Gass as a cabin boy...

The Gasconade Boatyard built the sternwheel towboats John Ordway and Patrick Gass to work on construction of Fort Peck Dam.

wscott@heraldstaroline.com A VARIETY OF BUSINESS — A roof replacement for a county building and efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccine to residents were among matters before the Brooke County Commissioners on Tuesday. -- Warren Scott WELLSBURG — Efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccine to residents and a roof replacement for a county building were among matters before the Brooke County Commission on Tuesday. April Eltringham, community wellness coordinator for the county’s health department, a...

If youre able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute. In previous columns I have written about pasties, the vegetable and meat-filled pastry dough originating with Cornish miners. And hard tack — baked flour, water, and salt mixture — that soldiers, explorers, trappers, and others used for sustenance on their long journeys. Another common commodity carried was pocket or porta...