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West Fork Riding Club held its second horse show June 1, 2024. We had an awesome show. Lots of new people as well as our regular ones. The winner of the Walker Creek getaway was Carl Ballengee. Congratulations to him and a big thank you to Daniel Tanner for donating the riding club the raffle. The show results for the second show are: Read More…
Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. Folks need to keep in mind that the big Creston ATV poker run will be Saturday, June 29. The ride will start out “easy” with folks saying, “Where’s the mud?’ Be patient and be sure to have working winches, pull straps, Read More…
Donna Hickman LaGrone, aged 52 of Mount Zion, WV, departed this world on June 15, 2024, after a lengthy illness. She was born on February 14, 1972, in Spencer, WV, a daughter of Kathy Noreene Tanner and Thomas Hickman. She led a life filled with love from family and so many friends. Donna spent her life in Read More…
Orma Almeda Stump, 102, of Parkersburg, WV, passed away June 10, 2024, at Wyngate Senior Living Community, Parkersburg, WV. She was born October 26, 1921, in Flushing, Ohio, a daughter of the late Carl and Almeda Riddle Bell. Orma moved to West Virginia, where she met and married her husband George C. Stump. Orma was Read More…
Buck McCumbers (and the Hillbillies) has released a new CD titled “A Norman Rockwell Time”. All songs are original written by Buck with the title cut being a song about Grantsville, WV. “The Morristown Flood” is a true story about a flash flood around Rockport, WV in 1889 that killed 19 people. “She Rode All Read More…
During the 1960s and 1970s, Walter Cronkite was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” after being so named in an opinion poll. He closed the nightly news with “And that’s the way it is,” believing to the best of his knowledge he had reported the truth as it was. I’m not aspiring Read More…
