The Creston bingo game starts at 1 P. M. On Saturday March 7 at the Creston Community Building. Come, sample the Creston hot dog sauce, visit, play and have a great Saturday afternoon at the Creston Community Building. Doors open at noon.
The Calhoun Crew is working on the small structure [State Road says it has to be 20 feet to be a bridge] one mile up Little Creek where the road crosses Bear Fork. The road is closed during the work day as repairs are being done.
Mike Graham, age 79, passed away. He was the son of Bud & Dorothy Graham and retired from the state road. Service Tuesday 1 P. M. At the Sunset Memory Funeral Home on W. Va. 95.
Mark “Donkey” Blankenship, age 66, passed away after a long illness. He was a son of Forest & Sylvia Blankenship who lived at Annamoriah. Forest was one of the Annamoriah ferry men.
The comely Kim was visiting her mother, Wilma Mowrey.
Josie Hughes was attending to business in Creston one day last week.
Local folks have been making maple syrup.
W. Va. Attorney General J. B. McCuskey is leading a consortium of 21 states that are suing to set aside the rules against gas furnaces & hot water heaters that were established by the Biden Junta.
March came in like a lamb with hairy bittercress and jill over the ground flowering. Birds have been singing and the tom cats have been calling on the ladies with a fair amount of caterwauling. With the warm days it won’t be too long before ramps are up ready for harvest.
Engineer Evans had his crew of marauding morons out butchering trees along Left Reedy (W. Va. 14) while no one was patching the potholes. A lady with strong roots to Creston called Engineer Evans’ office to inquire about the W. Va. 5 bridge at Creston that was supposed to be replaced this year. The feller told the woman that, well sometime in the next two years the bridge might be replaced but, not to worry, each year the bridge is inspected & that there were money problems. He didn’t mention that $millions are skimmed off the top of the road budget each year for “trimming trees to prevent potholes” using high dollar rental equipment, etc. After all, Dimbulb had his deal with Slick to get “their piece of the pie”.
A local resident had occasion to motor down to Mercer county one day last week. Down in that country the tree butchering crew was cutting the vegetation that held the road bank and apparently the “gospel” Core Maintenance Manual no longer requires the removal of rock slides [and sometimes logs] from what used to be called the “clear zone” along the roadway. On the way back it was found that there are potholes on I-77 north all the way from Chelyan to Tupper’s Creek exits with some that might be described as “impressive”. Back when little Johnny D. Rockefeller IV, the carpet bagger, was playing governor those “imperfections in the surface of the roadway” were called “Jay holes” because they would rock a feller.
Debbie Griffin is on the mend after a “vacation” down at Camden Clark.
Renee Gray is now home and on the mend after gall bladder surgery.
It was reported that now W. Va. Is fifth in the nation for the production of natural gas with the state producing 10% of the total for the nation. A concerted effort is made to make sure the financial impact to West Virginia is held to a minimum as we have some of the best politicians money can buy.
FERC ( the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) has come up with new rules to facilitate AI data centers to be able to build their own power plants. This should put a stop to the story that homeowners will have to fund the extra electric capacity for the new facilities. The proposal for the data centers at the mouth of Katy’s Run is complete with a gas fired power plant with fuel supplied from Marcellus & Utica wells drilled in the vicinity. First Energy (the outfit that paid the $67 million bribe to Ohio legislators) said they had no plans to upgrade electric service for the local area. First Energy acquired Monongahela Power the longtime power company for the local area later called Allegheny Power. Aside from the upgrade for the TransCanada (Columbia Gas) compressor plant near Brohard, the last major upgrade of the electric grid was likely back in the 1950s.
The City Net crew seems to busy all around the area. One wonders if they are being funded by the taxpayers.
The bushy tails have been playing “chicken” along the roadways and more deer have been seen recently.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude inched up to $66.02/bbl. With condensate fetching $48.02/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light sold for $55.02/bbl. Natural gas was $2.86/MMBTU. Some of the “X-purts” on the tee vee have claimed that the activity in and around Persia will cause a spike in the price of crude & then gasolene but since we get no oil from there the impact, if any, should be minimal. Fuel at the BP station in Parkersburg cost just $2.35/gallon. Way back when the name of the company was the Anglo Persian Oil Company. Dictator Xi might have some problems but who cares.
