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The large daily news archives and many feature stories are under ARCHIVES, while the Herald is still updated daily with new and old history stories following the discontinuing of NEWS in Nov. 2021. Dille, West Virginia, was also a company town and there was a company store there. Long since closed, J. O. Dodrill was the manager for many years. ... Given in July of 1997, and is reprinted in the Hur Herald with her permission. Although her roots are in Widen and Dille, she now resides in Frametown, Braxton County, West Virginia where she ...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.Mamie was the daughter of Charlie and Ida Morris Cadle of Stinson, having her first child at the age of 16. She married Oscar Donald Cross in 1924, who was a mail and newspaper carrier at Stinson, having one of the first vehicles in the area. They divorced in the 1940s. It appears they had five children, Mamie remarried, but still continued to ...Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia. Calhoun County Park is a pristine jewel in the center of the county, a project that has been developed over about four decades for local and regional folks and their children. All reactions: 22. 1 share. Like. Comment.

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.CALHOUN'S EARLY GRIST MILLS - A Grist Mill List. (03/09/2024) Nearly every small community had a grist mill, essential to grinding grain into flour, meal, and animal feed. Many of the Calhoun grists were associated with country stores, although some operated from family barns and sheds. Witt Flour Mill at Minnora Early 1900's.(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.

Appalachian Regional Magazine stated, "He is the irrepressible cultural minister of pure country music." David began his career in the early 60s. His first concert was at Normantown High School in 1962. He first appeared at the West Virginia Folk Festival in 1963. In 1968 he was sent to the Viet Nam War as a combat medic with D Troop 3rd ...

The WV Legislature expanded the kind of legal fireworks allowed in the Mountain State, now aerial boomers are allowed. The Hur Millennium Celebration in 2000 brought more loud explosions from the ground and in the air than ever seen in this community, the display put together by family members mostly for my aged father, who wanted to live into ...Calhoun County's Hur Herald Online Newspaper Archived at Glenville State. Jason Gum. GLENVILLE, WV - For 25 years, Bob Weaver of Calhoun County has been publishing The Hur Herald. The publication is named after the village of Hur, which is located near Mt. Zion, WV and has a population of around 25 people. While the newspaper has been online in ...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 ...The Whytsell Reunion was held on August 1 at the Whytsell Park along the West Fork of the Little Kanawha (Rocksdale-Richardson), the park constructed as a 4-H project by Randall and Blanche Whytsell and their daughter Peggy (Stemple) in the 1950s. It has been a gathering place for the Whytsell clan, their extended families and neighbors, the ...There are 415 matches for the year 2020:. Date Published: Article: 12-30-2020: Joseph N. Mattis, 81, of Spencer: 12-28-2020

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Traveling around Calhoun and the Mountain State, if you gawk a little, you'll see some fascinating things that will amuse you, puzzle you, irritate you or make you feel warm and fuzzy. Here's a few along the by-ways: This guy is wrapped up in his work. All the conveniences near Rocksdale, Calhoun County. Handy cemetery for seniors in front of ...

Calhoun magistrate Lora Davis, in a court hearing Thursday, said that Sam Sloan Schrader, 29, of Erbacon, pled guilty to a charge related to the impersonation of a police officer in Calhoun County. He was fined $375.00. A charge related to taking a vehicle, likely a cruiser, was dismissed. Famous fiddler and gentleman Wine died at 93 in 2003, fiddling for 84 years. The Braxton County native has long been acknowledged for his powerful live performances and his willingness to teach and share his music, including Calhoun fiddler Jake Krack. He was the recipient of West Virginia's first Vandalia Award in 1981. The high-density photos around the county will appear on the Hur Herald. Kemper has had a long-time interest about his Calhoun roots. ... WV on Route 16. The Park is maintained and operated by a volunteer Board of Directors with members appointed by the Calhoun County Commission. There are approximately 200 acres of land available to the public ...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. ... There are numerous stories about William Hollie Griffith on the Hur Herald. ...Jack D. Cawthon, 86, Morgantown WV (12/03/2020) Jack D. Cawthon, 86, of Morgantown, passed away on December 2, 2020, at Sundale Nursing Home. ... After the demise of Hillbilly, he wrote a column for the online newspaper Hur Herald titled Cawthonâ s Catharsis. His favorite pastime was walking the land, especially his boyhood homeplace on ...REMEMBERING: DENVER ROBERTS MADE IT TO THE HEAD OF HIS CLASS - WWII Vet Died At 92. 92-year-old Denver Roberts of Grantsville, a native of Hur died, his remains being donated to the WV Gift Registery. I think of Denver at every Calhoun High alumni gathering since, who was a speaker representing his 1943 class. "After 60 years, I finally made it ...

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.Hacker, a state police veteran, was conscious and at times alert before he was taken by helicopter to Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital In Parkersburg. The 34-year-old Harrisville resident died shortly after arriving at the hospital at 12:10 a.m., authorities at the hospital said. Ferguson was arrested about midnight Thursday in a wooded area near ... Calhoun connected Dan Kemper of Parkersburg is capturing aerial shots of Calhoun County from his drone, including the Calhoun County Park, and recently the entire town of Grantsville and Bethlehem Cemetery. The high-density photos around the county will appear on the Hur Herald. Kemper has had a long-time interest about his Calhoun roots. Calhoun's highest peak is Mule Knob, between Nicut, Grannyshee, Walnut and Chloe (Rt. 16) in Washington District. It is 1584 feet high, with an unobstructed 360 degree view of the Appalachians, the world's oldest mountains. Layered outlines of taller mountains can be seen 100 miles to the east, Webster County and beyond.The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reports 432 new positive cases Thursday. More than 7,100 active COVID-19 cases in WV. Calhoun has seven new cases this week. Gilmer County High School is closed because on an outbreak, the county having an uptick.Richardson was an early contributor to the Hur Herald, stories from everyday events with turtles to reporting on the "Storm of a Century," the devastating ice storm of 2003. In a writing style that pulls readers into his accounts of forests, wildlife, plants and creation, having kept a diary for about 50 years. Perhaps driven by his ...By Bob Weaver 8-2022. Seventy-seven year old Bob Mollohan is a porch-sitter along the headwaters of Walker Creek, which winds its way from Chloe WV to a spot where Calhoun, Clay and Braxton counties join. Walker Creek is a rugged backwoods place, filled with the history of its settlers. Mollohan lives on his birthplace, the faded Village of ...

UPDATE: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR HUR HERALD READERS. 10-28-2022. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Dark Times, Alcoholic Blackout Embalming. 10-23-2022. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: POWER OF CULTS, DE-PROGRAMMING AND POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS. 10-18-2022. ORMA VETERAN KENNETH KEATON RETURNS TO SOD - Homestead "Wonderful Place To Live". 10-18-2022.

2/28/2022 The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of February 28, 2022, there are currently 3,045 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been nine deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 6,317 deaths attributed to COVID-19. DHHR has confirmed the deaths of an 83-year old male from Read ...Unlimited PTO has been heralded—then derided—as a progressive way to give employees a break. So how do we make it actually work? “There are countless things I did in the early year...SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Bob and Dianne Starcher Weaver Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary, "The Wind Beneath My Wings" (01/27/2024) 2024: BOB AND DIANNE STARCHER WERE MARRIED 50 YEARS AGO TODAYBy Bob Weaver. It was 80+ years ago in Grantsville in 1942 that the cornerstone of the county's new courthouse was laid, with the official opening some months later. The courthouse had been located in numerous buildings during a bitter struggle over the location of the county seat, with an official courthouse being built in Grantsville. THE HUR HERALD: "A Poor Persons Paper". (09/06/2023) In the Early days of the Herald's introduction to the Internet. (1999) few Calhouners had computers, so copies of stories got. pasted in a Grantsville store front window starting in 1996, even on the hottest. day of summer, folks stood around to read and discuss the news, while hard copies ... Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia. Calhoun County Park is a pristine jewel in the center of the county, a project that has been developed …HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES - Native Americans Hunted Bear Fork Wilderness, Last Native American Killed In 1804. (05/16/2022) By Bob Weaver. Bradford W. Davis, in a college thesis, wrote about Native Americans in Gilmer County, including the Bear Fork wilderness area. The area was a favorite hunting ground, Davis saying six or seven mounds ...As alumni from Normantown High School, a like-sized, also-defunct school in Gilmer County at the other end of the state from War, gather for the Class of 1966's 50th reunion on Saturday, some will likely remember hearing their parents talk about the school's David versus Goliath championship season of 1945. The one when their 150-person student ... 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. OLD NEWS - Mollohans Leg Amputated in 1910, Riverboat Can Run On "Heavy Dew," First Scout Troop In 1931. 04-26-2024.

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 ...

Stacker compiled a list of counties in West Virginia with the highest rate of food insecure children using data from Feeding America. Calhoun County is near the worst (3rd) with a child food insecurity rate of 29.3%, with the number of food insecure children at 420, the percentage of children in households with income below 185% FPL or 66.0%.

A five year trend shows more students are leaving West Virginia's public schools than are enrolling, according to figures submitted to the state this week. It is unclear about the funding loss to Calhoun next year, but it could be over $400,000. When the new Calhoun Middle/High School opened in 1998-99 the enrollment was 945 students.It was among Calhoun's worst tragedies, happening in 1916. Five small children were burned to death on Wolf Run near Orma. Mrs. James Hardway, the mother of three of the children, received serious burns and injuries, in a fire that destroyed their home. The dead are Rosa Hardway, 14; Pearl Hardway, 9; Johnny Hardway, 6; Gay King, 3; and Naman ...1 of 2. Bob Weaver runs the Hur Herald online newspaper out of his Calhoun County home with his wife, Dianne. The couple has managed to keep the paper going …Rector was born out in the country around Chloe, Calhoun County, West Virginia, in 1914, Joe LaRose wrote in Traditional Music and Dance in Northeast Ohio (March 1985). ... THE HUR HERALD ARCHIVES HAS DOZENS OF STORIES ABOUT CALHOUN'S MOUNTAIN MUSICIANS, INCLUDING STORIES ABOUT BLIND ED HALEY ...There are 415 matches for the year 2020:. Date Published: Article: 12-30-2020: Joseph N. Mattis, 81, of Spencer: 12-28-2020GREETINGS FROM HUR - Official Proof From 1914 (10/24/2023) For those of you who may think there never was a real place called Hur, here's your proof. An official postcard from the Village of Hur circa 1914. The card was addressed to Mrs. George Gainer, Mt. Zion. The village post office was named in the late 1800s by a local resident who was ... Leona married Holly Sturm, son of the founder of the Hur Telephone Company William J. Sturm (1871-1949) in 1928, and moved to the village. Holly Sturm (1905-1938) died at the age of 33 from illnesses, leaving his wife with three children to raise. The phone system was established just after 1900. Leona's father-in-law William J. Calhoun magistrate Lora Davis, in a court hearing Thursday, said that Sam Sloan Schrader, 29, of Erbacon, pled guilty to a charge related to the impersonation of a police officer in Calhoun County. He was fined $375.00. A charge related to …SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Bob and Dianne Starcher Weaver Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary, "The Wind Beneath My Wings" (01/27/2024) 2024: BOB AND DIANNE STARCHER WERE MARRIED 50 YEARS AGO TODAYBy Bob Weaver 2022. Calhoun native Timothy W. Hall, 83, has died in Lakeland, Florida. Born at Sand Ridge, he was the son of Calhoun teachers Kenneth and Martha Hall, he graduated from Calhoun County High School in 1957. Tim was the first music aficionado I met, collected jazz records in the 1950s, jazz being certainly beyond my pale.The best account of Booger Hole is recorded in a small book written by Clay County resident Mary Lucinda Curry - "Booger Hole, Mysteries, Ghost Tales And Strange Occurrences." Curry first published her "Booger Hole" book. in 1990 and it is still available after all these years: Cindy. Curry, 3320 Ossia Road, Duck WV 25063, Send $5 plus $2 ...

THIS OLE HOUSE - Memories Along Steer Creek. (11/16/2023) By Bob Weaver 2012. Steer Creek is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River draining an area of 184 square miles in Braxton, Gilmer and Calhoun counties. The Right Fork Steer Creek of 25 miles rises approximately 5 miles northwest of Frametown in western Braxton County.He was inducted into the West Virginia Voters Hall of Fame. After retiring from Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron in 1972, he returned to his Calhoun roots, in recent years living at his family homestead he named "Crowhill." His life and times recorded by the Hur Herald. See complete obituary Eucle C. Knotts.1974 & 2017 David Kutz. Kutz came to Calhoun in the 1970s to photograph their endeavors, and while here took photographs in the Grantsville area, which he has released for publication on the Hur Herald. We would like to hear from our readers regarding the photographs and the people in them, none were captioned by Kutz at the time.Instagram:https://instagram. ignacio garraus now 2022funny friday gif workfarmall 756 for salewells fargo transit number Mary Jane Hefner (above) was a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). She was born in Burnsville, WV. on 27 December 1921. When she was she was 22 years old she joined the Army (WAC). She became a Sergeant. Mary Jane died in 1977 and is buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Grantsville. Photos are from the Hur Herald Archives fort worth coronersnyder and hollenbaugh funeral and cremation services 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. glow relay short circuit kia optima In 1898, with the exhaustion of the Pennsylvania gas fields, Cabot moved his operation to West Virginia, where he acquired oil and gas leases, which he drilled successfully. By 1900 the new carbon factory - Cabot Station, in Grantsville employed twelve men paid from $1.25 to $2 a day. The plant was producing 800 pounds of carbon black a day ...2023: GRANTSVILLE HAS A NEW GREEN FIELD - Removal Rainbow Hotel. (02/26/2024) 2023: Grantsville has another soon to be green field, with.