• News
    • Environment
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Drugs & Addiction
    • Classifieds
  • Features
  • Latest Issue
  • Life
    • Health & Wellness
    • Food & Farming
    • Society
    • Education
    • Art & Essays
    • Community
    • Writing
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
The Observer logo
Log In
Lost your password?
Lost your password?
Search
  • News
    • Environment
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Drugs & Addiction
    • Classifieds
  • Features
  • Latest Issue
  • Life
    • Health & Wellness
    • Food & Farming
    • Society
    • Education
    • Art & Essays
    • Community
    • Writing
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
Recent News
  • Observer Contributor Co-Develops Memorial Site for Opioid Victims
  • Bringing Back Bob (Part 2)
  • Wellness Center at WVU Medicine Celebrates 20 Years
  • Holiday Blessing: Shepherdstown Boasts Tour of Historic Churches

Tagged West Virginia

The Flatwoods Monster Comes Alive Again

Lisa Troshinsky
October 24, 2018
Society
(As October is bookended by Halloween, we thought it appropriate to recount the tale of one of the Mountain State’s most hair-raising urban legends—an...

West, By God: Telling Our Story

Rich Goodman
October 8, 2018
Community, Society
A person of importance walked into the room and kindly asked each of us our name, and where we each called home. When my turn came, I said, "I'm Rich ...

West Virginia’s Outdoor Heritage Needs Help from Our Senators

Independent Submission
August 1, 2018
Environment, Politics
When I entered the Navy as a teenager, I didn't know much about the world. But as a backpacker and paddler, I knew I loved West Virginia's public land...

Is Legalization the Answer … to the Opioid Crisis?

Mike Chalmers
February 6, 2018
Drugs & Addiction
On Thursday, January 4th, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions effectively ended the federal policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state l...

WV Lands on Top Ten List of Best States for Seniors

Jillian Williams
August 7, 2017
Society
SeniorAdvice.com, based in Austin, Texas, has announced the ten states that are most and least accommodating for seniors—and West Virginia came in at ...

Let’s Have Clear-Eyed Conversations About Coal

Mary Anne Hitt
April 20, 2017
Politics
— The sooner the better. Since the election, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from reporters who want to know, basically, what’s up with Appalachia...

The West Virginia Workplace Freedom Act

Neal Barkus
March 22, 2017
Politics
— While popular in writing, most people don’t know what it means. In early February 2016, West Virginia became the 26th state to adopt a “right to ...

Oxford House Offers Area Addicts a New Recovery Option

Mike Chalmers
August 27, 2016
Drugs & Addiction, Health & Wellness
In its simplest form, an Oxford House describes a democratically run, self-supporting, drug-free home. Oxford House, Inc., is a publicly supported, no...

Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Renews Itself Again, and Again

Adam Booth
April 21, 2016
Life, Society
When I first moved here sixteen years ago, Shepherdstown was seeing a new wave of neo-hippies in town, the seventh-or-so such wave since the ‘60s. Dru...

Slowing Down to Savor

Ana Prillaman
April 1, 2016
Food & Farming, Life, News
Many of us have a desire to create a healthier world, and the Slow Food movement is a collection of meaningful steps towards that goal. Once, not s...
  • 1
  • 2

Connect with us

  • View WVObserver’s profile on Facebook
  • View WeTheObserver’s profile on Twitter
  • View WeAreTheObserver’s profile on Instagram

Hoxton"

SamByrer

JodiPope

Recent Articles

  • Observer Contributor Co-Develops Memorial Site for Opioid Victims
  • Bringing Back Bob (Part 2)
  • Wellness Center at WVU Medicine Celebrates 20 Years
  • Holiday Blessing: Shepherdstown Boasts Tour of Historic Churches
  • The Macho Masculine Manly Man

Trending Topics

  • Environment
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Technology

Latest Issue

  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise
  • Contact