The 1982 Foundation is very pleased to announce the very first recipients of our GO Scholarship; Savannah Cunningham Lexi Gregory and Allison Stevens. The 2022 GO Scholarship will provide for academic expenses and work study opportunities totaling up to $60,000 over four years of undergraduate studies for each recipient. Foundation President, Crystal Mersh said “The Read More…
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Class of 2022 Awards Ceremony at Calhoun Middle High School
The Calhoun County High School Students attended an award ceremony during school hours on Wednesday, May 18 to witness their peers receive thousands of scholarship dollars toward their education endeavors. Awards were given by Calhoun faculty, area business leaders, and University staff attending. Those giving the awards are listed in parenthesis with the students receiving Read More…
Calhoun BOE Honors Students & Staff, and Discusses the Wayne Underwood Field
Calhoun County Board of Education acknowledged multiple student endeavors at the May16th, 2022 regular board meeting. Several student and parents attended the end of the school event. Following a presentation by Stella Moon for the Stars program the following students were honored: STARS Students – Nickolas Dickey, Gabriel Francis, Lexi Gregory, Ava Helmick, Natalie Holcomb, Read More…
Calhoun Bootstraps Project has Kicked Off!
Greater than 30 community members gathered in the Little Kanahwa Bus Conference rooms for the first meeting of the Bootstraps Project designed to assist area businesses and community leaders with information and tools to drive their success. Crystal Mersh, President of the 1982 Foundation and Shelia Burch, Director of the Little Kanawha Development Corporation lead Read More…
Why is there very little other news in Calhoun County besides Mrs. Mersh?
Below is a letter that Crystal Laughlin Mersh published on her personal Facebook Page and I, as Publisher of the Ridgeview News, totally stole without her permission. But we are friends, so I’m sure it’s okay. I preface this post with the statement ”we are friends” because that’s important in this day and age when Read More…
UPDATED: Commissioner Helmick Continues to Question The 1982 Foundation
While this drama continues to play out on The Ridgeview News, it is not for drama’s sake that we run the story of an email. It is because a Commissioner has taken it upon himself to continue to question a business owner and citizen on matters of law and making incorrect statements and he himself Read More…
A Return to the Follies and the Memories it Makes
The 1982 Foundation’s Spring Fling Follies on Saturday, April 16 2022 was a huge success from the perspective of attendance and enjoyment level by all who participated, both the choir and the audience. It was estimated that there were greater than 250 people in attendance. Jim Sullivan, Event Producer, kept the two hour show rolling Read More…
Tonight the Follies Return
The Return of the Follies, for which so many alumni have fond memories of, returns this evening at 7 p.m. The event will be in the Auditorium of Calhoun Middle High School at Mt. Zion, brought to you by The 1982 Foundation. Below is the program, and although it is a busy holiday weekend, we Read More…
