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Early voting opened in West Virginia on May 1 with voters in Harrison County now able to cast their ballots at two locations.

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Everything is in place for a seamless May primary — except for the people who will make it happen, according to Harrison County Clerk John

TIMES are hard for professional musicians. With almost no live work for over a year, many are in dire financial straits. Figures released by the Musicians’ Union revealed that as many as 1 in 3 musicians are considering leaving the industry, with 47 per cent having already taken jobs outside the music industry. Events were brought to a head recently when a country house in Northamptonshire appeared to ask “competent” musicians to work for free. In the since-deleted post, Lamport Hall asked musicians who might be “rusty after lockdown” to perform for free as part of a ticketed event....

- All of us just lived through one of the biggest historial years in the past century. It’s hard to think about it in that context when you are just trying to get through from day to day, but 2020 will be looked at as a year like few others in history when it comes to societal change and upheaval. Think about it. When COVID-19 was brewing in China in December of 2019, our “normal” society was living on borrowed time. Nobody had any idea at the 2019 Christmas Dinner that our entire society would change in less than three months. But it did, and we are still feeling the effects of it...