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In 2022, PBS published an article about the political shift that was beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years were becoming Republicans. More than 1 million voters across 43 states switched to the Republican Party between 2021 Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy Republicans Weaken Our Military Leadership When We Most Need It Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization, attacked Israel on October 7. Rampaging across the border, Hamas militants committed unspeakable atrocities, raping women and parading them naked, beheading babies, and randomly, brutally, killing or taking hostage everyone they came upon. President Biden called it “an act of Read More…
Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. The Wirt County Farm Bureau annual meeting will be Wednesday October 25 at 6 P. M. at the dining hall at Camp Barbe. Bring a covered dish. The Creston Halloween party will be Saturday, October 28 at 5 P. M. at Read More…
Friday, Oct. 20 at 6 pm, Studio 88, county-wide program for piano & vocal students, will host a Halloween Party at CCCOA building, 105 Market St. Grantsville. Open to the public, children & adults welcome. Costumes not required but encouraged. Entertainment includes performances, open mike, games, contests. Food will be provided.
The investigation into yesterday’s home fire on Beech Road continued today, October 15th, 2023 with the WV State Fire Marshall’s office having staff on scene to sift through the debris in search of another possible victim and information regarding the cause. At approximately 1 p.m. the second body was discovered in the rubble of the Read More…
ATTENTION: There has been a change to the vendor cost for space at the craft show. We are now just asking for a donation for the space, instead of charging a fee. We also ask all vendors to make a donation of a door prize, so we have a way for thanking our attending guests! Read More…
February 13, 1941 – October 12, 2023 WILLIAM GRANT RAMSEY, 82 of Summersville, passed away Thursday October 12, 2023 in the CAMC Hospice Division. He was the son of the late Raymond and Dorothy Ramsey and was born in Clay County February 13, 1941. Bill was the owner of the Gassaway Dry Cleaners; he was Read More…
UPDATED AT 8:20 P.M. – OCTOBER 14, 2023 A call to Calhoun Control came across the Radio for what Ridgeview News assumed was another ordinary, but tragic house fire. Due to the location of 1259 Beech Road, the house was located a short distance up a rock base driveway, so RVN Writer, Whitney Butler drove Read More…