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WOJCIK BETHLEHEM — Admired community leader and village council member Stanley “Stacky” Wojcik died Wednesday, leaving friends and peers to mourn his loss. He was 70. Wojcik, who took a seat at the council table in July of 2007, a role which he held ever since, was a well-known man about town, active with city affairs and instrumental in keeping village affairs running smoothly. Social media posts indicate that Wojcik died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19. Numerous Bethlehem offic...

BRENNAN WHEELING — The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston wants its members to have a voice in its present and future. To do that, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Diocesan bishop, has reestablished a group that will give laypeople that opportunity. The Diocesan Pastoral Council is back and will hold its first meeting in nearly 15 years this month. Diocese spokesman Tim Bishop said the faithful deserve the chance to help move the church forward. “You can’t go wrong involving the laypeople,” he ...

Staff Writer Photo Provided Justin Zimmerman, headmaster of The Linsly School, stands by The Aviator statue at Banes Hall on the school’s Leatherwood campus. WHEELING — Students at The Linsly School are back to school five days a week — even when it snows. Catholic schools in Ohio County also have resumed in-person education Monday through Friday, though these students were learning remotely on Monday due to the weather. At both The Linsly School and schools within the Diocese of Whee...

For The Times Leader WHEELING — The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston wants its members to have a voice in its present and future. To do that, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Diocesan bishop, has reestablished a group that will give laypeople that opportunity. The Diocesan Pastoral Council is back and will hold its first meeting in nearly 15 years this month. Diocese spokesman Tim Bishop said the faithful deserve the chance to help move the church forward. “You can’t go wrong involving the lay...

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Jan 28, 2021 Last summer, as the world was struggling to understand and fight COVID-19, Ohio Sen. Stephen Huffman, R-5th Dist., asked this question of the executive director of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, during a hearing in which lawmakers were trying to understand how to best fight the virus: “Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups? Or wear a mask? Or do not socially distance themselves? Could that be the...

Local Eats: B-Dogs has specialty hot dogs topped with Fritos and more in Flint Updated Jan 16, 2021; Facebook Share FLINT, MI — B-Dogs offers more than your typical hot dog. The specialty hot dog cart, located inside the Flint Farmers’ Market, has hot dogs with toppings beyond ketchup, mustard and onions. Customers can order hot dogs topped with cheese, jalapenos and Fritos chips, sloppy Joe sauce, or macaroni cheese and bacon. The cart also offers a hot dog topped with coleslaw called the...

Exit poll: Nation in a funk turns to Republicans WASHINGTON — The glum voters who handed Republicans full control of Congress on Tuesday feel the U.S. is stagnating under President Barack Obama’s leadership but put little faith in politicians of either party. Most voters leaving polling places said they don’t have much trust in government, feel the nation is off on the wrong track and believe life will be worse for the next generation. Those feeling pessimistic were more likely to v...

My wife, Debbie, and I have collected many memories on our bicycle travels throughout America. Most are positive. However, none of them affected me more than cycling through an Indian Reservation in Montana on our honeymoon tour. It drove home the emptiness of broken promises. Evidence A week before our arrival on “the Rez” we’d been warned to stay clear of it: “crazy kids, alcoholism, not a good place.” Yet as we cycled toward it, the beauty and vastness of the high plains wowed us. ...

January 8, 2012 Agenda 21, via ICLEI, to paraphrase Heritage, is a voluntary plan adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. It calls on governments to intervene and regulate nearly every potential impact that human activity could have on the environment. The UN is dominated by a Marxist philosophy and they see nations like the United States as gluttonous in its destruction of the earth’s resources which belong to everyone. They are no friend to the United...