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SHORT HISTORY OF GRANTSVILLE - Published In 1942. (03/20/2024) Town of Grantsville in 1942 from Pine Creek Hill, with "new". courthouse under construction to right, cleared Hospital Hill. (Photo courtesy of the David Hathaway collection) Submitted by Norma Knotts Shaffer. The following article was written by Attorney Louis Reed for deposit in ...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.It was a real community. In 1940 the town had 1200 residents, most of whom had built or owned their own homes. Today it is less than 500, mostly folks who rent property. Laid out by Simon Stump in 1866, it became the county seat in 1869 and was officially. chartered as a town before the turn of the century.Harold R. Lockhart 80, of Palestine, West Virginia, passed away Monday, February 27, 2012 at Camden Clark Memorial Campus. He was the son of the late Ivan and Ica (Lott) Lockhart. He was a 1949 graduate of Wirt County High School, served in the US Army during the Korean War and retired from Johns Manville after several years of service. He ...

Serving as West Virginia's first black bear biologist for more than 28 years, Rieffenberger conducted numerous research projects designed to collect biological data that would later form the foundation for West Virginia's bear hunting seasons. Through countless hours of field and lab work, Rieffenberger designed a hunting season that would ...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.wv knife and gun club - violent boone robbery: 01-01-2001: four scheduled for sentencing monday in circuit court : 01-01-2001: calhoun seeking change to small county school funding: 01-01-2001: hur herald updates delayed: 01-01-2001: wirt man facing six charges: 01-01-2001: young artists perform at annual heartwood in the hills showcase: 01-01-2001

May 29, 2016 ·. Bob Weaver runs the Hur Herald, a website catering to Calhoun County and the 7,000 or so people that live there. Twenty years ago, the Hur Herald started as a joke among he and his friends who live in the unincorporated community named Hur. It's just too expensive to keep the site running any longer, and after running the ...

UPDATE: WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Parkersburg Physician Arrested For Wife's Shooting (04/11/2011) Wood county authorities have arrested Dr. John Ralsten, 74, a well-known retired Wood County physician, for allegedly shooting and killing his wife, Carol Ralsten, 70. The shooting happened at the Ralsten residence late afternoon Friday. In 2020, here were 9,300 fewer students in West Virginia this school year than last and the decrease could cost the public education system nearly $43 million in state funding. Calhoun, now with a low student population of 862 (2020), a near record loss of 101 students. The sprawling structure rests on Bowers Hill along US 33-119 east of Spencer, the exchange moved to that location in the early 1930s from a site near downtown Spencer. The market was reported to have been established in the late 1800s, at the end of the long-gone B&O railroad which hauled thousands upon thousands of animals to the greater world ...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 …Morgan's family has been involved in county and community service, and are descendants of West Virginia's first settler Morgan Morgan. ... (See earlier story Hur Herald) He will assume the position on August 1st. Commissioner Rick Sampson (left) Kenadee Taylor and new WVU Extension Agent Lew Holloway (right)

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Chloe merchant John Rose takes a break swingin' with his. dog on the porch of the country store emporium along Rt. 16. The owner and operator of one of Calhoun's last "country" stores, John Herman Rose, 76, has passed. He was owner and operator of Chloe Auto and Hardware since 2001. John enjoyed helping people and was the ideal storekeeper.

A brief history written by Robert P. Mollohan said his father Perry Mollohan (1845-1898) and R. J. Chenoweth established a general store ten miles above Arnoldsburg at Chloe. The next closest store was at Newton in Roane County, and another at Servia in Braxton County. Marlene Potasnik said her father, Lambert Cooper, worked in the store about ...Bob Weaver, who publishes the Hur Herald, asked me to jot down some of my experiences when I was a high school student and worked at WSPZ in Spencer. Bob is trying to collect stories on the early days of broadcasting. Here are my memories. In 1963, when I was 17, the Spencer High School counselor, Ray Harris, hooked me up with a job lead.KKK CROSS BURNING CAUSED CRESTON STIR IN 2003. (12/02/2023) By Bob Weaver 2003. A large burning cross with about fifteen to twenty hooded figures slowed traffic on Route 5 near Creston, Wirt County Saturday night. "I couldn't believe what I saw," said Charlie Brown, who was returning to Calhoun County from Parkersburg with his wife.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 ...HUR HERALD CEASES NEWS AFTER 25TH ANNIVERSARY: 'YA GOT IT ALL WRONG' - Herald Foibles, Perseverance And Rewards (02/16/2023) THE VILLAGE OF HUR HAS FADED EVEN MORE AFTER 25 YEARS "Under WV's Freedom of Information Laws, passed years ago, citizens are entitled to information, not just news outlets. Since that …

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 ...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.He was about 94 (Nov. 2022). He held forth on the Right Fork of Crummies Creek, having been discovered ill at his cabin last Spring. Parsons of Crummies Creek was on the fringe of the Bear Fork Wilderness, with up to 25 Families once living there, with only a handful of survivors in 2022. His body has been returned to the Calhoun sod.HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun (Part Two) ... He was 16 years old when he joined the Union at Spencer, VA (now West Virginia) on November 5, 1861. He was a private of Company B, 9th Regiment for three years. He reenlisted as a Corporal and transferred to ...2024: CALHOUN'S 'LAST MAN STANDING' WORLD WAR II - Cleston Nicholas, 97, Dies. (03/17/2024) CLESTON NICHOLAS TURNS 97 SEPTEMBER 2023. "The Last Man Standing" Seaman Cleston Hale Nicholas. By Bob Weaver. Over seventy-eight years ago "The war to end all wars," ended. It was not the end of wars, a number since fought with fanciful reasoning.CAWTHON'S CATHARSIS - Lee Maynard's Book, Crum, Leaves Us a Bit Crumbly. (09/14/2022) WELL KNOWN WV WRITER LEE MAYNARD DIED ON A HEART ATTACK JUNE, 2017. By Jack Cawthon 2001. I wish I had read Lee Maynard's book, Crum, when it first was published in 1988. It has been reissued by the University Press in Morgantown, and I only now have finished ...

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 ...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.

First Published (10/30/00) By Bob Weaver. The Hur Herald has presented a series of stories and pictures about the Bear Fork backwoods, a tract of land once encompassing about 35,000 acres and currently owned by Coastal Lumber Company. The remote area, parts residing in Gilmer, Calhoun and Braxton Counties, has survived three major events, the ...By Bob Weaver. It was a tragic day in 1928 when 56-year-old farmer John Gideon Weaver was shot and killed near the Calhoun line at Trace Fork, Gilmer County. Weaver was on his way to the Kight Store at Nobe to sell butter and eggs when he encountered his long-time enemy Beaman Wright, who killed him. Weaver's widow with six children in 1928.Ridgeview News is a self funded and self marketed News organization. There are no Papers to sell or Subscriptions to buy, But for all intensive purposes it is a daily source of information that is provided without cost to interested parties of Calhoun County, the Region and West Virginia. It is the "People's Paper."HUR HERALD NEEDS HELP TO KEEP ARCHIVES/HISTORY ON-LINE (09/20/2023) ... Since the Herald is no longer using a business license, send checks to Bob Weaver, 7697 Pine Creek Road, Mount Zion WV 26151. (OR) PayPal to [email protected]. Contact phone 304-354-6183. ...By Bob Weaver. It was a humble publication nearly 60 years ago, Calhoun High School's newspaper "The Clarion," printed on a mimeograph machine, with the results often faded and barely readable. The mimeograph machine was a low-cost printing press that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper, used for decades from the late 1800s ...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 ...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.Glenville, WV - Headlines flashed across local newspapers including The Glenville Democrat and the college's own newspaper, The Glenville Mercury, which boasted that it was the 'official publication of Glenville State Teachers College.' Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous women of her time. She visited what is today Glenville State ...A few years ago, Bob Weaver, the editor of the online newspaper, the Hur Herald (www.hurherald.com) wrote a fascinating article listing reasons for admission to what was to become the Weston State Hospital. The Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny, started by the State of Virginia, was named the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane when it was ...Purdy was born in 1974 at Chloe, and is now a professor at Columbia, formerly professor of law at Duke University and the author of several widely-discussed books including "For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today" (1999) and "Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World" (2003).

Weaver is not unlike hundreds of Calhoun natives, graduating from Calhoun County High School in 1938, and leaving the hills to make a significant contribution to the greater world. Major Weaver, born in 1921 in Grantsville, expresses deep gratitude to his parents Arley E. (1887-1967) and Grace Davis Weaver (1892-1954), saying "My parents ...

Bernard Leon Wyatt, 98, is among the last men standing from World War II. Also serving in the Korean War. He died on April 22 in Lewisburg WV. He was a US Army veteran with the 285th Combat Engineers and was in the Battle of the Bulge. His funeral was Sunday at the John H. Taylor Funeral Home in Spencer, with military rights, followed by burial ...

In 2020, here were 9,300 fewer students in West Virginia this school year than last and the decrease could cost the public education system nearly $43 million in state funding. Calhoun, now with a low student population of 862 (2020), a near record loss of 101 students. 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 2002 Hur Herald - Genealogy. Watchers. Janiejac. search google books. search worldcat. Coverage. Publication information. Citation. Repositories. This is an online …Irene Jarvis Gunn, 99, of Chloe, died in Conroe, Texas on December 31,2020, just weeks before her 100th birthday. Jarvis, a descendant of the legendary "Mammy Jane" Jarvis was the subject of several Hur Herald articles. She was born January 20, 1921, a daughter of the late Spencer Doc and Effie McClain Jarvis. Irene is survived by her daughter ...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.WV in this 1952 image. B&O Ten-Wheeler #2026 leads a coach and mixed manifest bound for the Roane County seat. Photos courtesy of www.wvncrails.org. By Bob Weaver. ... As a young person, in the Village of Hur, I could hear its Spencer train whistle if the air was just right, contributing to the fascination of steam engines that stretched across ...We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.Rev. Lawson C. Whipkey, 82, of Spencer WV, went to be with the Lord on June 28, 2021. He passed at home surrounded by his loving family following an extended illness. Rev Whipkey was born on March 13 1939, in Calhoun County, West Virginia, the son of the late Delmas (Rooster) Whipkey, and Greta Kelly Whipkey. He was a pastor with The United ...THIS OLE HOUSE - "Watch That TV 'Til We Starve To Death" (07/21/2023) This ole two-story log house, built by early settler, in the backwoods would have stories, now collapsed to the groundSHORT HISTORY OF GRANTSVILLE - Published In 1942. (03/20/2024) Town of Grantsville in 1942 from Pine Creek Hill, with "new". courthouse under construction to right, cleared Hospital Hill. (Photo courtesy of the David Hathaway collection) Submitted by Norma Knotts Shaffer. The following article was written by Attorney Louis Reed for deposit in ...

FLASHBACK: "I FELL IN LOVE WITH CALHOUN COUNTY" - Totten's Connected To River Farm. (12/10/2023) Kyle Hugh "Pop" Totten, 87, a veteran of World War II, died in 2015 and his wife has passed. The Totten's - (L to R) Kyle Totten III, Kyle Totten II (Weston's new City Manager) and the elder Kyle Totten. By Bob Weaver 2001.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 ...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 ...Instagram:https://instagram. heather storm age garage squadplot again crossword2017a 100 dollar billhow long till 4am May 29, 2016 ·. Bob Weaver runs the Hur Herald, a website catering to Calhoun County and the 7,000 or so people that live there. Twenty years ago, the Hur Herald started as a joke among he and his friends who live in the unincorporated community named Hur. It’s just too expensive to keep the site running any longer, and after running the ... h e b brodie lanetexaco car wash near me Charleston TV-11 quoted authorities last night that no weapon was found at the crime scene. The Hur Herald reported a call for help was initiated by 16-year-old Ronnie Rush, who had been staying at the dwelling. The youth reportedly drove away from the house to seek assistance. The Charleston Gazette said "Neighbors who heard gunshots found the ... basketball bracket 2023 nba 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 ...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.