Food

Recipe For Ramp Dip From the WV Department of Agriculture

It’s the season of Ramps, Fried Potatoes and all the fixins’, but the WV Department of Agriculture are offering their own ideas for using the native wildflowers that grace the woods in spring. Ramps is one of few that is considered a vegetable. Allium tricoccum – commonly known as ramps but also is sometimes called wild leek, Read More…

Art & Music Community Events Holiday News

24 Christmas Market Vendors are Ready to Fulfill Your Christmas Lists!

Looking for that hard to buy for family member or friend? Stop by the Christmas Market and explore the possibilities Friday and Saturday at the Calhoun County Community Center (Old Calhoun High School) in Grantsville, WV. Also happening will be a Friday evening visit from Santa, Toy Store Visit, Soup, S’mores and Cocoa following the Read More…

Government News

WV WIC Announces Increase in Cash-Value Benefits

West Virginia’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WV WIC), within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Public Health, announced a monthly increase in Cash-Value Benefits (CVB) for WV WIC participants. The increase is funded to states by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Read More…

Guest Writers

Preserving the Harvest

There’s still time in the season for fresh vegetables There’s still time in the gardening season to stock up on vegetables, if not your own, then from the farmer’s market. Locally grown, home-preserved foods have more nutrients and vitamins for your body, and fewer additives and preservatives. And, they taste better.  If you’ve never attempted Read More…

Art & Music Community Events

Spring Fling Craft Show Hosting 25 Vendors

The Spring Fling Craft Show at the Calhoun County Community Center will surely have something for everyone with 25 Vendors selling goods and a few Information booths. The Event will take place from 10 a.m – 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 16 with all Vendors in the Main Hall unless they’re an outside Read More…