CHARLESTON, WV — Fall fire season starts Friday, Oct. 1, and continues through Dec. 31. The West Virginia Division of Forestry (WVDOF) reminds residents to confine their outdoor burning to the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. Fires set during that time must be put out before 7 a.m. “The fall season is typically marked Read More…
Year: 2022
West Virginia Ginseng Harvest Season Now Open through November 30
West Virginia Ginseng Digging West Virginia’s hills are filled with gold – a gold root, that is. The lucrative root, known as ginseng, brings out treasure hunters every year from September 1 through November 30 to dig it up and sell for a pretty penny. The Division of Forestry closely monitors the harvesting of this Read More…
August Property Transfers for Calhoun County
From the Office of Jean Simers, County Clerk
Creston News
Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. This weekend will be the big sternwheel regatta at Marietta. Before the locks & dams were let to go out on the Little Kanawha, lots of paddle wheel boats called regularly at Creston. The W. Va. Trappers Association will have their Read More…
Bearfork Bluegrass Offering Fall Classes
Bear Fork Music classes will be holding an early sign up on Saturday, September 10, 2022. This sign up is to gather information about the interest in our classes this coming fall. In order to hold a particular class there must be a minimum of five people showing interest. If there is less than five Read More…
Dominion Energy Announces Closing of Sale of West Virginia Natural Gas Distribution Company
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) today announced closure of the sale of its West Virginia natural gas utility – Hope Gas, Inc. (Dominion Energy West Virginia or DEWV) – to a subsidiary of Hearthstone Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of Ullico Inc.’s infrastructure fund, for $690 million, adjusted for customary closing items. This transaction Read More…
Calhoun Centennial Bowl – Another Wayne Underwood Field Memory in the Books
Alumni across the ages took to the Wayne Underwood Field for the Calhoun Centennial Bowl with a final score of 32 to 26, White Team wins with coaches Jeff Church, Keith Smith and Kevin Yeager, against Red Team, Coaches Paul Goodrich and Roger Carter. But as the prognostication went of one of our favorite people, Read More…
WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF NATURAL RESOURCES ANNOUNCES UPDATED REGULATIONS FOR COYOTE NIGHT HUNTING
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The West Virginia Natural Resources Commission approved updates to the regulations for coyote night hunting. Using any color artificial light or night vision technology, including image intensification, thermal imaging or active illumination, for coyote hunting in West Virginia is permitted between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31 on private land. Hunting coyotes at Read More…
Speaker to Call Members Back in Session – Clarity of Abortion Laws back in Discussion
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, will contact members of the House of Delegates next week to call them back into session Monday, Sept. 12 alongside the regularly scheduled interim committee meetings. The House adjourned to the call of the chair July 29 during the third special session of the second session of the 85th Legislature. Both Read More…