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There are 334 matches for the year 2021:. Date Published: Article: 11-07-2021: John Otto "Jack" Gibson: 11-07-2021: Robert Scott Beckett, 37, of PigeonWe can thank the undertaking of three primary individuals for the research of the Elk & Little Kanawha Railroad. Bob Weaver--historian and webmaster for the Hur Herald web page dedicated to north central West Virginia--- and the the late Harlan Stump and Ron Miller, respectively, for archival images and historical research. These efforts began during the 1980s and continued until circa 2001.A goofy article in the The Sydney Morning Herald reports that scratching the back of your leg might stall the urge to run to the bathroom. A goofy article in the The Sydney Morning...In today’s digital age, where news is readily available at our fingertips, many people question the need for a physical newspaper subscription. However, there are still numerous be...

We've heard from a number of faithful readers in the past few weeks regarding the closure of the Herald. We hope to maintain the vast archives on-line for a while, but would suggest you make a copy of stories or photos of special interest to you. ... Mailing address: 7697 Pine Creek Road, Mt. Zion WV 26151.FLASHBACK: "I FELL IN LOVE WITH CALHOUN COUNTY" - Totten's Connected To River Farm. (12/10/2023) Kyle Hugh "Pop" Totten, 87, a veteran of World War II, died in 2015 and his wife has passed. The Totten's - (L to R) Kyle Totten III, Kyle Totten II (Weston's new City Manager) and the elder Kyle Totten. By Bob Weaver 2001.LOOKING BACK: W.W.I Soldiers Grantsville (07/06/2023) WW I soldiers in front of the old courthouse, Grantsville, WV. Bob Weaver collection

SHORT HISTORY OF GRANTSVILLE - Published In 1942. (03/20/2024) Town of Grantsville in 1942 from Pine Creek Hill, with "new". courthouse under construction to right, cleared Hospital Hill. (Photo courtesy of the David Hathaway collection) Submitted by Norma Knotts Shaffer. The following article was written by Attorney Louis Reed for deposit in ...Calhoun County's Hur Herald Online Newspaper Archived at Glenville State. Jason Gum. GLENVILLE, WV - For 25 years, Bob Weaver of Calhoun County has been publishing The Hur Herald. The publication is named after the village of Hur, which is located near Mt. Zion, WV and has a population of around 25 people. While the newspaper has been …

Emma Metz 1923-2009, a one-of-a-kind. spirit that graced the Calhoun backwoods. A service was held on Memorial Day 2010 for Emma Parsons Metz near her property on the right fork of Crummies Creek. Metz died in December 2009 at age 87 in the middle of a winter storm, which prevented having a funeral service. Relatives and neighbors …Brian and Jan Hastewell have dutifully reported really cold temperatures from their narrow Frozen hollow. Hastewell gave the official winter temperature on Jan. 21, 2019 at 4 degrees above zero. The wind chill was likely 15 below at times. Hastewell, an Australian native married Frozen resident Jan Schartiger, have lived in the remote hollow ...The Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built 18.6 miles out Dundon Ridge to Widen by J. G. Bradley, fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1904, controlling more than 80,000 acres of land. Encouraging worker loyalty to his company, he built a solid town at Widen. Worker homes, painted company red, were well-constructed.CALHOUN WOMAN STABBED 52 TIMES IN BRUTAL UNSOLVED MURDER - Broomstick Crime 60 Years Ago. (01/04/2024) A quiet, remote backwoods site at Broomstick. where Irene Wilson was brutally murdered 60. years ago, no one charged with her murder. If the place where victim Irene Wilson's house once stood had a voice, it might tell who was guilty of her ...Spencer WV Mayor Terry Williams says, "The Spencer Police Department has been fortunate to have many dedicated officers during my tenure as Mayor. Being a police officer is certainly not an easy position at times, and requires a special type of public servant. ... Corporal Starcher tells the Hur Herald that Spencer officers work 4, 10 hour ...

Irona Jane Yeager, 72 of Grantsville. (08/28/2019) Irona Jane Yeager, 72 of Grantsville, WV went home to be with the Lord on Monday August 26, 2019 in Morgantown, WV, surrounded by her family. She was born on July 24, 1947 in Millstone, WV to James and Goldie Stump Vannoy. Irona married the love of her life, Parker, on April 25, 1964.

2020: GRANTSVILLE SKY-VIEW FROM THE AIR - Part Three. (08/28/2023) The Hur Herald has been recording the life and times of Calhoun for 25 years, including thousands of photographs across the …

You could feel the pang of democracy at work when Hur's governing body, the Council for Social Improvement and Upward Mobility, rules on public matters. The Herald has local news, sometimes reporting of controversial subjects, and a focus on the people and history of the area. THIS OLE HOUSE: PATRICIA BURCH BARNES RECALLS STATELY GRANTSVILLE HOUSE, FAMILY. (02/08/2024) Burch Chevrolet was owned by Arlan Gail and Catherine. Kelley Burch, a longtime Chevy car dealership in Grantsville, started about 1954, gasoline was 29 cents a gallon. The Burch's lived in a stately house (built by the Kelly family) across on the road ...By Bob Weaver 2022. Calhoun native Timothy W. Hall, 83, has died in Lakeland, Florida. Born at Sand Ridge, he was the son of Calhoun teachers Kenneth and Martha Hall, he graduated from Calhoun County High School in 1957. Tim was the first music aficionado I met, collected jazz records in the 1950s, jazz being certainly beyond my pale.Historians say the first school building was built in Calhoun in the general area about 1824. The river trail, still visible today, was traveled by early explorers and settlers before the region was open to commercial riverboat ventures in the late 1800s. Mary Ann Barrows, long-time editor of the Calhoun Chronicle, wrote in 1975, that "No doubt ...Mortgage Lifter Tomato Characteristics. - Tomatoes are red and pink. - Tomatoes are amongst the most flavorful heirloom tomatoes. - Tomatoes are big and average 2 to 4 pounds. - Tomatoes start bearing fruit in about 80 days. - Tomatoes are on the meaty side. - Tomatoes have very few seeds. - Tomatoes produce an abundant crop.Edward C. Westfall, Jr., 83, of Spencer, passed away June 9, 2021 at Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg following a short illness. He was born in Lockney WV to Edward C. and Wilma L. Dotson Westfall on October 30, 1937. He was a graduate of Spencer High School with the class of 1956 and later graduated from WVU with a degree in secondary ...The Appalachian Regional Commission did not respond to a Hur Herald request related to Calhoun County and the Calhoun County Park not receiving a 2017 $240,000 grant for the Dark Skies Project. The Hur Herald has now issued a Freedom of Information request with the ARC, asking them to provide documentation regarding what happened with the funding.

John was born in Morgantown, WV on September 18, 1867 and died October 16, 1929. Suzanna was born July 1869 and died in 1944, according to great granddaughter, Anita Hartshorn Vannoy. The house, whose front faces the river, was once a stopping place for riverboat captains and workers who were forging their way upstream to Glenville.UPDATE: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR HUR HERALD READERS. 10-28-2022. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Dark Times, Alcoholic Blackout Embalming. 10-23-2022. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: POWER OF CULTS, DE-PROGRAMMING AND POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS. 10-18-2022. ORMA VETERAN KENNETH KEATON RETURNS TO SOD - Homestead "Wonderful Place To Live". 10-18-2022.04-26-2024. STRANGE MUSHROOMS SPOTTED ALONG WEST FORK - "Observed By Keen Backwoods Eye". 04-26-2024. LOST CEMETERY RE-DISCOVERED NEAR EGYPT RIDGE - 30 Repose In Backwoods, Above West Fork Little Kanawha River. 04-26-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Calhoun's Godlight, Green Hills Closing Tighter. 04-26-2024.AMERICAN PICKERS COMING TO WV IN APRIL - Contacted The Hur Herald To Help Spread The Word (03/10/2021) The History Channel's famous show 'American Pickers' is coming back to West Virginia, in April of this year ... the show is looking for leads throughout the state, specifically interesting characters with interesting items and lots of them!The Herald has captured the life and times of our county and region since being on-line since 1999, and even before with hard-copies since 1996, day after day. We didn't miss much. For us, it has been a labor of love. Hur Herald News Photos 2005. Christopher Cox being taken to Grantsville arraignment.WV's 53rd-54th Molasses Festival will be held Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Oct. 21-23, 2021, at Arnoldsburg. ... Run near Hur in 1930s (Bob Weaver Photo) By Bob Weaver. The West Virginia Molasses Festival at Arnoldsburg is a reminder of what was a customary ritual throughout Calhoun's farm communities, the making of molasses, recalling old-time farm ...The remaining 115 acres will be bought through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel Conservation Fund. The land transfer culminates a 10-year Nature Conservancy project aimed at protecting nearly 2,000 acres of former timber company land adjacent to the Roaring Plans and Dolly Sods wilderness areas.

LOOKING BACK: W.W.I Soldiers Grantsville (07/06/2023) WW I soldiers in front of the old courthouse, Grantsville, WV. Bob Weaver collection2022: DAVIS GRUBB'S WV FILM "NIGHT OF THE HUNTER" REMAINS TOP 100 MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIMES. Novelist Davis Grubb. By Bob Weaver 2017. WV novelist Davis Grubb said his 1969 novel that was made into the film "Fools' Parade" staring Jimmy Stewart, was partly based on the life of murderer William Holly Griffith, a resident of Creston, Wirt County.

In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.Dec. 2022 - A Pine Creek man Steve Allison has died. About 25 years ago he relocated to Calhoun from the busy metro life of California, building his home above Grantsville in the woods. He loved the backwoods life and low taxes, likely the only voter showing up to Calhoun Commission meetings, praising the officials for keeping the taxes low.The Whytsell Reunion was held on August 1 at the Whytsell Park along the West Fork of the Little Kanawha (Rocksdale-Richardson), the park constructed as a 4-H project by Randall and Blanche Whytsell and their daughter Peggy (Stemple) in the 1950s. It has been a gathering place for the Whytsell clan, their extended families and neighbors, the ...Elma Jean Mace, 85, of Sassafrass Ridge, Calhoun County, WV passed away November 12, 2019 at her home. She was born August 10, 1934, a daughter of the late Ralph William and Beulah Claudis Poling Mace. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by brother, Deo Darrell Mace. She is survived by sister, Helen June Mace; sister-in-law ... The Hur Herald has done numerous stories on Nancy Hart, who originally lived along the West Fork of the Little Kanawha near the Roane-Calhoun line, near Rocksdale-Richardson, and a cartoon series about her life by Neil Grahame. The Teenage Terrorist of Roane County. H. Donald Winkler. Nancy Hart had spirit and spunk— and good aim. AMAZING EVENING SKY ON TINGLER MOUNTAIN (11/12/2023) Beautiful evening sky photos all taken by Ed Tingler at his home on 'Tingler Mountain,' up304-354-6183. 7697 Pine Creek Rd. - Mt. Zion WV 26151. E-MAIL [email protected]. A QUESTIONABLE PUBLICATION. Editor Bob Weaver returned to his ancestral Village of Hur in 1995 and started The Hur Herald's printed version in 1996 "for the amusement of my neighbors," often printing and handing out 2000 copies. Because of expense, The Herald was ...TEAM BON JOVI/WEST VIRGINIA - Gov. Wise Proclaims June "WV Mountain Bike Month" (05/29/2004) L to R: Steve Ware, Doug Wayne, Governor Wise, Cai Clothier, Greg Moore, Bryan Fawley, Michael Haid. West Virginia Governor Bob Wise has declared June as West Virginia's Mountain Bike Month at a ceremony in Charleston. After reading the …

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A long view from Hur of Rattlesnake Knob the highest peak in the distance The road leading to Rattlesnake Ridge, with at least three families living on the remote stretch. A view from the ridge toward Ritchie County By Bob Weaver. Rattlesnake Knob is a 1310' peak between Joker and Ace Haney Hill at the head of Little Creek.

By Bob Weaver 2022. Few came to central West Virginia before 1800 except Native Americans and a few explorers, traders and hunters. Gilmer County was unsettled until Jacob Bush came from Lewis County, then called Harrison, to settle as a squatter on Cedar Creek about 1.5 miles from the current U.S. Route 33/119, west of Glenville.BRAXTON COUNTY VILLAGE OF GIP ONCE HAD THREE STORES. (10/27/2023) Gip WV store and post office. Second Gip store across road from post office/store. By Bob Weaver. Two stores in the Braxton village of Gip were owned by competing brothers Gordon and Earl Hall, with another early store owned by the Sharp family. The Village of Gip was supposed to ...IT HAPPENED IN WEST VIRGINIA - A Book About Sunny Cal, The Whipping At Sand Ridge (04/14/2024) I have re-read the Palmer girl's life in Calhoun County during the Great Depression. It accurately portrays in a heart-felt matter the life experienced by most Calhoun families-Bob Weaver. The eight Palmer sisters down on Sycamore in early 1950'sTHE HUR HERALD SHINING STAR AWARDS - Making The Community Better: 11-20-2002: CALHOUN MAGISTRATES REPORT - Magistrates Postalwait And Robinson: 11-20-2002: DRUG FREE OLYMPIC DAY A SUCCESS - In Spite Of Weather: 11-19-2002: EMERGENCY SERVICES BUILDING MOVING AHEAD - Commission Has Little Input Regarding Project: 11-19-2002: CRESTON NEWS: 11-19-2002Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia. Calhoun County Park is a pristine jewel in the center of the county, a project that has been developed …My cell phone number is 304-210-3331. I was born and raised in Calhoun County, attended White Pine Elementary School and graduated from Calhoun County High School. I am currently employed at Hardmans Home Center in Grantsville and also am a substitute bus driver for Calhoun County Schools.1974 & 2017 David Kutz. Kutz came to Calhoun in the 1970s to photograph their endeavors, and while here took photographs in the Grantsville area, which he has released for publication on the Hur Herald. We would like to hear from our readers regarding the photographs and the people in them, none were captioned by Kutz at the time.From West Virginia Tourism. 10/09/2017: Sleep Under The Stars! The East Coast's Finest Stargazing ... From the Hur Herald. 05/03/2019: Update: Darkness Has Fallen On Calhoun's Dark Skies Project. 04/27/2019: Calhoun Park is Pristine Jewel - Offers Dozens Of Opportunities, Take A Tour. 04/07/2019: Northern Lights Photographed At Calhoun Park.Edward C. Westfall, Jr., 83, of Spencer, passed away June 9, 2021 at Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg following a short illness. He was born in Lockney WV to Edward C. and Wilma L. Dotson Westfall on October 30, 1937. He was a graduate of Spencer High School with the class of 1956 and later graduated from WVU with a degree in secondary ...1905- Creston was once a booming town, shown here is a section. facing the Little Kanawha River, with stores, mills, livery. stables, hotels, physician's office, all the old structures. gone with the more recent arson of the Creston General Store; Creston's up-river neighbors Richardson and Arnoldsburg, likely had a greater population than ...There are 334 matches for the year 2021:. Date Published: Article: 11-07-2021: John Otto "Jack" Gibson: 11-07-2021: Robert Scott Beckett, 37, of Pigeon

Calhoun County. Hur Cemetery. Added: 1 Jan 2000. Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 78760. Find 344 memorial records at the Hur Cemetery cemetery in , West Virginia. Add a memorial, flowers or photo.By Bob Weaver. An enterprising businessman attempted to move Calhoun into 20th Century with accommodations for travelers, post World War II, building a motel just west of Grantsville along Route 5. William (Bill) and Jean Stalnaker had the motel built in the 1960s and owned and operated it until it was sold to Fred Basnett of Annamoriah. Starcher started his career in 2007 with the Grantsville Police Dept. He graduated from WV State Police Academy in 2008. He previously held the administrative positions of Chief of Police (Grantsville PD), Chief Deputy, and Sheriff of Calhoun County. Starcher has been a law enforcement instructor since 2013, and holds 10 Areas of Expertise (AOE ... Instagram:https://instagram. harbor freight tools cathedral citycrystal shop san jose cakelly slater girlfriend listcox communications ri webmail In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.CALHOUN WOMAN STABBED 52 TIMES IN BRUTAL UNSOLVED MURDER - Broomstick Crime 60 Years Ago. (01/04/2024) A quiet, remote backwoods site at Broomstick. where Irene Wilson was brutally murdered 60. years ago, no one charged with her murder. If the place where victim Irene Wilson's house once stood had a voice, it might tell who was guilty of her ... mezeh morrisvilleverify nurse aide license texas The Little Kanawha River winds through a six counties in West Virginia, connected to an early history of settlements and commercial development when river travel prevailed. The oil and gas industry owes much of its development in West Virginia to the Little Kanawha River. "The river ranges through some of the most rural countryside in West ... gizmo ripple tank answer key By Bob Weaver 8-2022. Seventy-seven year old Bob Mollohan is a porch-sitter along the headwaters of Walker Creek, which winds its way from Chloe WV to a spot where Calhoun, Clay and Braxton counties join. Walker Creek is a rugged backwoods place, filled with the history of its settlers. Mollohan lives on his birthplace, the faded Village of ...Elma Jean Mace, 85, of Sassafrass Ridge, Calhoun County, WV passed away November 12, 2019 at her home. She was born August 10, 1934, a daughter of the late Ralph William and Beulah Claudis Poling Mace. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by brother, Deo Darrell Mace. She is survived by sister, Helen June Mace; sister-in-law ...