There will be a baked steak (not stake) dinner Saturday, August 22 at the Creston Community Building starting at noon. There is also carry out. For details call Kathleen at 275-0003.
The Creston area once again had power outages, downed trees and more thunder storms. There has been high humidity and when one fellow got out his “Sunday, go to meeting shoes” they were covered with mold.
Folks that are involved in agriculture are reminded that the annual farm use reports are due in the county assessor’s office by August 31, no exceptions.
Terry Dye & Kyler Propst were attending to business in Creston over the weekend.
Several local folks were consulting with their physicians. Mary Reno is in a Charleston hospital undergoing tests on her heart.
A local couple who had been in the United Kingdom came home and got sick. Another local lady woke up one morning unable to speak.
Sheriff Mike McFee & son attended the Creston Neighborhood Watch meeting.
The Comely Kim was visiting her mother Wilma Mowrey.
Homer Dougherty, age 87, of Looneyville passed away. He was an inspector for the W. Va. Office of Oil & Gas and was well known and well thought of in the area.
Folks have been seeing some young turkeys out and about with the hens. The other morning the game warden had to deal with an injured buck with a fine rack just past the turn on the Clark straight.
Hunters have been putting up game cameras to see where the best of the wily bucks have been hiding. One fellow has been somewhat frustrated for all he gets on his camera is a huge bear that just lays around. Bear meat is not really choice eating.
The right-off-way folks were in Creston talking about purchases of land for the proposed new bridge across the Little Kanawha.
The Jerusalem artichokes along the road on the Creston flats are quite spectacular. The flowers seem to follow the sun.
It was reported that some of the big Marcellus drillers make a point to purchase all the minerals that they can before they start drilling as the assume [rightly] that folks do not know the actual value of what they owe so they sell for pennies on the dollar. Those who own oil & gas in Gilmer County are being flooded with cards & letters. This trend was noted in Marcellus Drilling News.
Locals continue to get calls about ‘good deals’ on Medicare. One trusts that the fraud folks under VP Vance will root several of these people out and the calls will cease.
Schools are back in session. Some folks who attend the Christian school at Brooksville were talking with folks who are in the government schools and the public school children were astounded at the level of comprehension for their former classmates. It has been clear now for a long time that the public schools want to make sure that the youth in West Virginia are left behind. Now we again hear that the Wirt School Board wants to float a big bond issue to build a new school even though there is a problem with the tax base. Of course if they screw up the state will take over and merge the school system with Wood County. Just a couple of years ago the Roane County school board went on a spree and now the Walton & Geary schools are gone. Thirty mile rides from Elana for first graders. -really clever.
The rumpus over clothing vouchers for poor children continues and it would seem that facts are hard to find. Local folks keep getting political flyers telling us what a wonderful job for us that is being done down under the golden dome. When the Creston News writer was in school most of the children went barefoot until the snow started to fly and there was a contest as to who was the last boy to come to school wearing shoes.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $80.40/bbl. With condensate or super Mountain High Test fetching $63.40/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $70.40/bbl. Natural gas elsewhere is $2.73/MMBTU and the price of gasolene ranges from $3.53 to $4.50/gallon depending upon where one is.
