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UPDATE 10/21/15 - Randy "Red" Hammer (Crabtree), about 62, of Munday, Wirt County, was found guilty of six counts of sexual abuse in August during a three day trial, relating to incest, sexual abuse and sexual assault. He has now been sentenced by the Wirt Circuit Court to the WV Division of Corrections. Count One: Not less than 15 years nor ...Which year would you like to see archived articles: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002ALMOST HEAVEN - Here's To You, A Few Of My Favorite WV Things (06/20/2023) Brad McElhinny: Almost Heaven, Here's To You . Here Are A Few Of My Favorite W.Va. Things. Charleston Daily Mail. WEST Virginia, my home. You are not perfect, but I love you anyway. I love your birth from rebellion. I love the story of your secession from a secession.2003. It is hopeful that Matthew Bonar and Tia Satterfield will return to Calhoun County Park 50 years hence on June 1, 2053 to participate in the opening of the Time Capsule buried yesterday. The 17-year-old seniors, members of the Student Council at CHS, would be 67-years-old. Bonar and Satterfield joined a number of other Calhoun citizens in ...

Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia. There are 1373 matches for the year 2018: Date Published. Article. 12-31-2018. SPENCER MAN SERIOUSLY BURNED IN GARAGE FIRE. 12-31-2018. CALHOUN STUDENT MEADOWS IS EQT SCHOLARSHIP WINNER. 12-30-2018.

Recent News Updates: 05-02-2024. NEW LIFE GRACES THE WOODS. 05-02-2024. BOUNTIFUL: STINK BUGS, SPIDERS , FLIES AND GNATS. 05-02-2024. SICKLES …He had been an all-state basketball player from Jackson County. Harless served in the US Army and worked as a janitor at Kaiser Aluminum in Ravenswood while attending West Virginia State College. In 1980, he received a law degree from West Virginia University, graduating at the top of his class. Harless was a union organizer for the Teamsters ...

Calhoun Commission Meets and Moves Forward with Appointing New Sheriff – Ridgeview News. Monday, April 29, 2024. . 04/24. 03/29. 3/1. . Home. News. Calhoun …By Bob Weaver. Republished from August 2003. Long before wanderlust was given names, Calhouner Charley Booher was traveling to Key West in a 1928 Model A Ford, exploring the back roads of America on motor bikes or flying over the rugged mountains in single-engine airplanes. Charley, who turned 90 this week, has long been a free spirit to see ...Click here to see - In Memoriam of Mr. Jim Bell, on Calhoun County Historical Society's Facebook page. James Arthur Bell, 93, of Grantsville, WV, went to the Lord on November 7, 2021, at WV Caring Hospice, Elkins, WV. He was born December 17, 1927, a son of the late Holly and Arldia Stump Bell. Jim married Juanita Nichols in 1949.In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.

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FORMER SPENCER RADIO BROADCASTER CHARLES MARLOWE -2016 Inductee WV Radio Hall Of Fame (09/20/2016) Membership in the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame is growing by eight, with former Spencer radioman Charles Marlow being added in 2016. Locally, he was known as "Charlie Ray."

By Bob Weaver 2022. In today's overloaded media world, it would be easy to overlook West Virginia's illustrious Jim Comstock, publisher of the "West Virginia Hillbilly," a weekly publication from Richwood, which had a run of 30 years or more, and over 30,000 paid subscribers. It would be fair to say, his monumental work is little noted nor long ...CHARLOTTE ANN SEARS - Grantsville. (09/07/2001) Charlotte Ann Sears, 60, of Grantsville, WV, died Thursday morning at her home following a long illness. She was a daughter of the late Russell and Dessie Cottrell King and was a member of Victory Baptist Church of Grantsville. Surviving are five daughters, Teresa Sears, Kimberly Sidwell, …2014: MT. ZION UM CHURCH CELEBRATES 120 YEARS - "This Is A Glorious Day" (04/14/2024) Rev. David Weaver, current pastor of Mt. Zion UN Church, welcomed parishioners and visitors to the celebration3/4/2018 6:35 PM - Minnie Hamilton Health System reported that a man walked into the emergency room Sunday with a gunshot wound to the head. Calhoun 911 dispatched a State Trooper to the hospital at 6:35 p.m. to investigate. The gunshot victim was reportedly shot by a man, who fled the scene in a Red Jeep.CALHOUN'S DEEP WELL DREAMS - Resting In The Stars. (04/05/2024) By Bob Weaver 2008. Fifty years have passed since one of West Virginia's first experimental wells was drilled at Mount Zion, Calhoun County. Local residents remember the secrecy when Exxon and Consolidated Gas erected the giant rig between Route 16 and Pine Creek.ROBERTY PETROVSKY NEW GRANTSVILLE MAYOR - Unopposed Recorder/Council Members Elected. (06/10/2021) Grantsville has a new mayor, Robert Petrovsky, who will serve a two year term. Thirty six voters cast their ballots in the town election Tuesday. Former candidate Derek Villers withdrew his candidacy earlier, but his name appeared on the ballot.WV's 53rd-54th Molasses Festival will be held Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Oct. 21-23, 2021, at Arnoldsburg. Molasses Making at the home of Charles R. and Nannie Conley. Lamb on Walker Road early 1900s (Photo courtesy of Genie Bailey) Alva Bell keepin' the stirrin' going on Rowels. Run near Hur in 1930s (Bob Weaver Photo)

Paul attended West Virginia Institute of Technology graduating in 1978 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Paul showed mechanical aptitude and interests at an early age. He enjoyed running BMW cars at Mid-Ohio and working on pit crews as a young man. In later years, he turned to enjoying NASCAR races and passed that love on to his grandson ...CALHOUN MAN SIPS ON JUG - Now Identified. (03/10/2024) The Herald published a photo of an unidentified man sipping on a jug from the 1956 Centennial Celebration. "The man sipping on that jug is Don Phipps, at that time he lived on Phillips Run and is now deceased," writes former Calhouner Jack Miller in 2007. Miller also notes, "I graduated ...In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.By Sidney Underwood. I lived in the Cabot station area of Calhoun County for over fifty years. My family moved there from Hardman Alley in Grantsville during the summer of 1955 when I was thirteen years old. My best buddy, Bill Umstead, had left River Street the previous year when his parents built a new home on Mt. Zion ridge.ENJOY VAST HUR HERALD ARCHIVES - History, Humor, News, Old Photos (09/07/2023) We invite you to visit thousands of stories and photos on the Hur Herald Archives. Some of the history and features stories are under PEOPLE, HUMOR AND HISTORY and COLUMNS, with Norma Knotts Shaffer's vast collection of historical photos under PHOTO OF THE DAY.

Roscoe Addison Darnall came to Gilmer Station in 1906 from French Creek, Upshur County, where he was born, March 17,1884, son of Robert A. Darnall and Malinda Rexroad Darnall. He was Station Agent and Telegraph Operator for the Coal and Coke railroad which was the only point in Gilmer County touched by a railroad, later becoming the B&O Railroad.the Nitz homestead and Ferris Barr, mail carrier and. photographer,many of his photos are published on Hur Herald. A typical house built in the early part of the 1900s. An abandoned sawmill on the left fork. The late Deward and Byrnadeen Offutt farm house, Offutt was a lifelong farmer and community servant. At the very head of the left fork is ...

It has been over 60 years since the government's War on Poverty was launched in West Virginia. It is a common assumption that people make choices that keeps them poverty stricken, lacking a work gene, having motivation or education to join the work force, becoming takers at the government trough. There are slackers, takers and abusers of the ...See HUR HERALD stories about Booger Hole. - Bob Weaver. WILSON DOUGLAS, OLD-TIME CLAY APPALACHIAN MUSICIAN AND STORY TELLER - Fiddler Wilson Douglas was born in 1922 on a farm in rural Clay County in an area known as Rush Fork. Wilson was an accomplished fiddler with an intricate personal style and an ancient repertoire. ... Curry, 3320 Ossia ...Juanita Jean Plant, 89, of Grantsville WV died September 14, 2021. She was a daughter of the late Ferrell and Josie Kerby Sampson. She retired from Calhoun General Hospital. She was a member of Victory Baptist Church. Surviving her are her husband of 70 years, Robert (Buzz) Plant; two daughters, Pamela Suttle of Grantsville and Charlene ...Julius Worth Pell was born at Kingwood, Preston County, on August 29, 1850. His father removed to Roane County in 1852 where the family remained until the outbreak of the civil war. After the war Mr. Pell lived with his parents at Elizabeth and Burning Springs, coming to Grantsville on June 1, 1875, nearly thirty-five years ago.12-28-2023. MISS NETTIE'S CONTRAPTION SCARED HER - "I Had To Go Sit Down". 12-28-2023. A RETURN TO HISTORIC BELLS FORD ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA. 12-27-2023. LOOKING BACK 2001 - A Few Highlights From The Hur Herald. 12-27-2023. HUR HERALD NEWS 2002 - A Few Interesting Highlights From The Year That Was. 12-27-2023.On a lark, he turned out about 30 homemade, stapled-together copies of The Hur Herald, with complete coverage of a fictitious village election. His friends wanted more of Weaver's laid-back prose, which recalls Jim Comstock's "West Virginia Hillbilly" columns - minus the conservative political tinge.Recent News Updates: 05-03-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Sober And Dumbfounded "The Greenbriar". 05-03-2024. 1909: CALHOUN WORKERS AT GODFREY CABOTS LAMP BLACK FACTORY. 05-03-2024. MYSTERIOUS GREEN ORB FRIGHTENS HUR SPOTTERS - Sightings 30 Years Apart. 05-03-2024.Charolette Mae Hathaway Taylor, 52, of Davisville, WV, died May 5, 2019 at her home in Davisville WV. She was born April 9, 1967, in Calhoun County, WV, the daughter of Ethel Powell Hathaway of Elizabeth, WV and the late Raymond Wesley "Wes" Hathaway. Charolette worked for Home Health Care.One-room schools were the bedrock of education in West Virginia since the late 1800s through the early part of the 20th century. At one time over 100 one room schools in county. They recall an intimate teacher-pupil relationship, with a single teacher for grades one through eight. Saturday, Calhoun's last standing community school reunion had a ...

Hur Herald 1998. Down the gravel path behind the Weaver abode in East Hur is a new, highly functional outhouse, possibly among the finest in Calhoun County. It is electrified, heated, lighted and even has running water gravitating from a roof tank. ... Old WV license plates have been nailed to the outside, a tradition with early outhouses. The ...

Thirty-nine-year old Renee Boyd, the significant other of Tommy Young, Sr., was caught in the 2004 cross-fire of guns and criminal activity with her children, died in 2010 from cancer. Young is now incarcerated for his part in a multi-state theft ring, with his sons Tommy E. Young, Jr. and Jacob D. Young, with Tommy Young, Jr. recently released.

A VISIT TO A SECRET CHAMBER - Cremo Store, Post Office And Lodge Hall. (02/18/2024) Daniel D. Duskey, grandson of legendary Daniel Duskey of Calhoun's Civil War Moccasin Rangers, was a Rowels Run, Cremo Village mainstay. Duskey's remaining wooden leg, the work-brittle man trudging a thousand miles on foot and horseback, from his Rowels Run home. MOST FASCINATING NEWS STORIES OF 2018 (12/28/2023) Here are some of the top stories recorded by the Hur Herald in 2018. Perhaps the biggest story is about the decency of most of our mountain citizens and how they will help each other, even when they don't particularly like each other, many of them having passed into the great beyond this year. 04-26-2024. STRANGE MUSHROOMS SPOTTED ALONG WEST FORK - "Observed By Keen Backwoods Eye". 04-26-2024. LOST CEMETERY RE-DISCOVERED NEAR EGYPT RIDGE - 30 Repose In Backwoods, Above West Fork Little Kanawha River. 04-26-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Calhoun's Godlight, Green Hills Closing Tighter. 04-26-2024. Oil and gas businessman Alvin Engleke, told The Hur Herald many of the new leases being signed in Calhoun and the area do not have free gas rights. "Royalty holders need to proceed with extreme caution before signing with these companies," he said. While Columbia Energy, drillers of most of the Roane County wells, has said they are not ...She also wrote "Nancy Hart Live!" and script for a one-woman show produced several times by the West Virginia Culture Alive! program. Johnson is a writer and journalism teacher who lives in Richwood, WV, with her husband and five children. We are grateful to Johnson for permission to publish her most recent account about Hart on the Herald.Here are some of the top stories recorded by the Hur Herald in 2018. ... WV remains near bottom with access to real broadband. A local initiative between Clay, Calhoun and Roane currently brings better promise. 11. CALHOUN COURT DEALS WITH LARGE CAST OF MURDER PARTICIPANTS - Two Calhoun murder cases, the 2016 murder of Lewis Maurell Bartlett ...The area traversed by WV 5 is best known for the Annamoriah Flats, a pastoral area of meadows and fields, and the historic Annamoriah Ferry. Annamoriah had a post office 1893-1988. Word was received here early Friday morning that the Annamoriah postoffice, conducted by W.R. Bell, had been broken into and robbed by unknown parties Thursday night.HUR HERALD HAS THOUSANDS OF HISTORICAL PHOTOS ARCHIVED (12/13/2023) By Bob Weaver. On a slow day you might take time to view the historical collection of photos by historian Norma Knotts Shaffer, under PHOTO OF THE DAY. There are other collections by Morris Bower, and a thousand others on the Hur Herald.Just such a route, eight rugged miles long, connects the tiny towns of Chloe and Elmira in the hills of central West Virginia. There 60-year-old J.B. Vaughan, astride his pinto horse, Pat, delivers mail six days a week to about 200 hill folk. Contractors Operate "Star" Routes. Burt, as he likes to be called, is not a regular postal employee.2022: DAVIS GRUBB'S WV FILM "NIGHT OF THE HUNTER" REMAINS TOP 100 MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIMES. Novelist Davis Grubb. By Bob Weaver 2017. WV novelist Davis Grubb said his 1969 novel that was made into the film "Fools' Parade" staring Jimmy Stewart, was partly based on the life of murderer William Holly Griffith, a resident of Creston, Wirt County.The 2000 Herald story used newspaper accounts of the 1963 murder, and broad speculation about the suspects from first person interviews. See BRUTAL CALHOUN MURDER STILL BRINGS CHILLS - Irene Wilson Stabbed Over 50 Times In 1963

THE STONE WALLS OF ARNOLDSBURG - Depression Era Works Holding Forth (10/10/2023) Depression era stone walls along Arnoldsburg's main drag Arnoldsburg has an array of stonewalls reflecting a time past when the country plunged into the Great Depression.Hur Herald Photos. The Legacy Market, a coffee shop, on the 200 block of Church Street in Spencer, caught fire about 7 a.m this morning, across the street from the Roane Courthouse. Damage appears to have spread from the back of business building to other buildings stretching to the Wendy's parking lot. Multiple regional fire departments ...2000. It is eight miles northwest of Grantsville, the Village of Big Bend, along the waters of the Little Kanawha River. It is often called Brooksville by old-timers in Sunny Cal, most people believing it was named after the presence of one of Calhoun's memorable old-time characters, Creed Brooks. Since the village was first established in 1856 ...JON WEAVER'S SLOW ROAMIN' WILD AND WONDERFUL (02/11/2024) Middle Mountain, Bartow, WV Photos By Jon Weaver. Ohio River, St. Mary's, WV. Blackwater Falls, Davis, WVInstagram:https://instagram. family quotes raptoro timecutter ss5000 brake control modulefrontier outage ctbotanas de gallos (Hur Herald Photo) The tiny model was dangled on a string from a pole and later showed all over the USA as an authentic UFO sighting. Barker, Adamski and others spent endless hours talking about such events on the 50,000 watt New York radio station WOR-AM, whose signal reached dozens of states, including West Virginia. gary indiana arrestscaptain crunch oops all meme Thirty-nine-year old Renee Boyd, the significant other of Tommy Young, Sr., was caught in the 2004 cross-fire of guns and criminal activity with her children, died in 2010 from cancer. Young is now incarcerated for his part in a multi-state theft ring, with his sons Tommy E. Young, Jr. and Jacob D. Young, with Tommy Young, Jr. recently released. kelly's resale and collectibles ROANE MAN JUDD REID WAS MURDER VICTIM - Gunshot Wound To Head, Burial Today At West Virginia National Cemetery (10/29/2002) A Roane County man, the mystery corpse found on Pisgah Ridge near the Town of Clay on October 17, died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to Medical Examiner Hamada Mahmoud, M.D. in South Charleston.PHOTO TOUR OF OLD CALHOUN HOUSES - Hard Scrabble And "Finer" Dwellings Of Early 1900s (02/07/2024) By Bob Weaver. Few houses of historical interest remain on Calhoun's landscape, most have been torn down, others have crumbled in the dust.In conjunction with Pioneer Day in Elizabeth, WV, over 200 visitors got a rare peak on Saturday, October 6 into the lives of Dr. Park Walker McClung, his wife Kate Nuzum McClung and their four children, who lived in a stately brick home along Court Square. Dr. McClung was the physician for Wirt County in the early 1900's and served in World War ...