Don’t be deceived by the outdoor setting and the blue tarp that so many of us are accustomed to throwing over the back of a pickup truck or a yard sale table. It wasn’t an ordinary tarp, and it wasn’t an ordinary evening when I interviewed another new family in Calhoun, three generations of White’s. Read More…
Tag: West Virginia
Meet the Plato’s – Their story will make you laugh, cry and want to know them as friends
I first met the Plato’s where I meet many people in my life, at church! When Jack and Lola Clark invited them to a Victory Baptist Church service. But it wasn’t until our chance meetings became several overlapping events that I truly began to call them friends. I knew they were not West Virginians, but Read More…
Gov. Justice announces over $1.2 million in Justice Assistance Grant awards
10/24/2022 CHARLESTON, WV – Gov. Jim Justice announced today that he has awarded $1,204,534.00 in Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program funds to thirty-nine (39) projects statewide. These funds will be used to assist state agencies, local units of government, and private non-profit agencies in carrying out specific programs that offer a high probability of improving the functioning of Read More…
Welcome The Gerlach Family – Why they love Calhoun County, West Virginia and How they’re making it Home
By Shari Johnson, Publisher Over the past few years, I’ve had several opportunities to meet the new families that are moving into Calhoun County. Multiple families from multiple states, and it always caused me multiple musings as to why they’d move to Calhoun County. What would draw anyone to a small county, with little to Read More…
West Virginia continues to shine with the best fall color of the decade
Department of Tourism encourages visitors to share foliage videos to social media in exchange for exclusive merchandise Charleston, W.Va. – Fall color continues to spread, bringing the most vibrant autumn shades of the decade into a number of travel regions across the Mountain State as the West Virginia Department of Tourism releases its fourth fall foliage Read More…
West Virginia State Capitol joins in National Lights On Afterschool campaign, set to turn blue on Oct. 20
10/19/2022 Charleston, WV – The West Virginia State Capitol is joining a host of landmarks and thousands of other businesses and organizations across the nation set to turn blue as part of the national Lights On Afterschool campaign. The campaign, organized locally by the West Virginia University Extension Services’ Statewide Afterschool Network and the Salvation Army’s Read More…
Speaker Roger Hanshaw meets to Discuss the Future of Calhoun County
Three of Calhoun County’s Political and Business leaders met Wednesday with Speaker of the House, Roger Hanshaw in his Charleston office to discuss the future of Calhoun County. Calhoun County Commission Candidate Craig Arthur presented his platform and hopes for the community that he grew up in as well as his desire to change the Read More…
Webinar Available from Business Perspective today on Amendment 2
Click the image for registration link or go to the WV Virginia Chamber of Commerce Facebook Page for coverage today at 2p.m.
Creston News
Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. From what one reads elsewhere the schism in the church continues with a group that seems determined to ignore Biblical teaching in favor of “modern thought” likely with the intent to destroy the church & Christianity. A fellow named Paul talked Read More…