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KKK CROSS BURNING CAUSED CRESTON STIR IN 2003. (12/02/2023) By Bob Weaver 2003. A large burning cross with about fifteen to twenty hooded figures slowed traffic on Route 5 near Creston, Wirt County Saturday night. "I couldn't believe what I saw," said Charlie Brown, who was returning to Calhoun County from Parkersburg with his wife.Recent News Updates: 05-03-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Sober And Dumbfounded "The Greenbriar". 05-03-2024. 1909: CALHOUN WORKERS AT GODFREY CABOTS LAMP BLACK FACTORY. 05-03-2024. MYSTERIOUS GREEN ORB FRIGHTENS HUR SPOTTERS - Sightings 30 Years Apart. 05-03-2024.04-26-2024. 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.CALHOUN'S EARLY GRIST MILLS - A Grist Mill List. (03/09/2024) Nearly every small community had a grist mill, essential to grinding grain into flour, meal, and animal feed. Many of the Calhoun grists were associated with country stores, although some operated from family barns and sheds. Witt Flour Mill at Minnora Early 1900's.GRANTSVILLE'S $4 MILLION WATER PROJECT FINALLY MOVING FORWARD. (05/14/2021) 5/13/21 - After a number of delays, a major $4 million upgrade for Grantsville's water plant and system is back on track, according to Fred Rader of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council. Rader said the town opened bids last fall, but they were way over budget.

Charleston TV-11 quoted authorities last night that no weapon was found at the crime scene. The Hur Herald reported a call for help was initiated by 16-year-old Ronnie Rush, who had been staying at the dwelling. The youth reportedly drove away from the house to seek assistance. The Charleston Gazette said "Neighbors who heard gunshots found the ...

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.

Von Yoak, schoolmate from Calhoun High School in the early 1940s, spoke about Stump to his wife JoAnn, his son Mike and daughter Ann, all of Daytona, Florida. He met and married JoAnn Campbell in Grantsville. Ivy Von Yoak, who has sung at over 3,000 funerals, rendered "How Great Thou Art," and the ladies of the First Baptist Church prepared a ...WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Charleston Wildfire. (03/08/2014) CHARLESTON GUNFIRE - Charleston police are looking for three men that opened fire on a passing car on the West Side Friday afternoon. Police say the driver took off during the shooting and hasn't been found by officers. It was not clear if anyone in the car was injured. Police say there ...Recent News Updates: 05-03-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Sober And Dumbfounded "The Greenbriar". 05-03-2024. 1909: CALHOUN WORKERS AT GODFREY CABOTS LAMP BLACK FACTORY. 05-03-2024. MYSTERIOUS GREEN ORB FRIGHTENS HUR SPOTTERS - Sightings 30 Years Apart. 05-03-2024.SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - A Headless Corpse, Spirits Helped Suvival. (08/23/2023) By Bob Weaver 2023. This is a torturous story from my days as a mortician, the event happening in Clay County WV. Carl Wilson Funeral Home received a request to disinter the body of a woman resting in Ivydale, moving her to another cemetery.Mamie was the daughter of Charlie and Ida Morris Cadle of Stinson, having her first child at the age of 16. She married Oscar Donald Cross in 1924, who was a mail and newspaper carrier at Stinson, having one of the first vehicles in the area. They divorced in the 1940s. It appears they had five children, Mamie remarried, but still continued to ...

RECORD-BREAKING FLOOD STRIKES CALHOUN IN 1967. (03/14/2024) A historical flood struck Calhoun with a record crest of the Little Kanawha River at 43.90 feet. - This account transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm of the Calhoun Chronicle. - Photos courtesy of David Lee Hickman (Grantsville) and Irene Burrows Siers (Cabot Station).

Please keep your personal cats indoors or put a collar on them on Thursday the 14th. If you have any questions, please call Linda at 304-354-7506. Partial funding for Trap-Neuter-Return is provided by The Oakland Foundation, The Bernard McDonough Foundation, and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture. ~~~~~

The best account of Booger Hole is recorded in a small book written by Clay County resident Mary Lucinda Curry - "Booger Hole, Mysteries, Ghost Tales And Strange Occurrences." Curry first published her "Booger Hole" book. in 1990 and it is still available after all these years: Cindy. Curry, 3320 Ossia Road, Duck WV 25063, Send $5 plus $2 ...Chloe merchant John Rose takes a break swingin' with his. dog on the porch of the country store emporium along Rt. 16. The owner and operator of one of Calhoun's last "country" stores, John Herman Rose, 76, has passed. He was owner and operator of Chloe Auto and Hardware since 2001. John enjoyed helping people and was the ideal storekeeper.GREETINGS FROM HUR - Official Proof From 1914 (10/24/2023) For those of you who may think there never was a real place called Hur, here's your proof. An official postcard from the Village of Hur circa 1914. The card was addressed to Mrs. George Gainer, Mt. Zion. The village post office was named in the late 1800s by a local resident who was ...Grantsville Police Chief Craig Gherke said the body has been taken to the WV Medical Examiners office. Sources told the Hur Herald that the body was partially decomposed. Chief Gherke said, "It is too early to tell if the remains could be missing Grantsville resident Jerry "JD" Hess." Hess went missing in Grantsville in November, 2018.Elijah and Missouri Arnold Siers are the last two in the front row. Mr. Elijah M. Siers was born in Monroe County, Virginia, (now WV) a son of John and Rutha Siers, on March 25, 1841. In 1847 the family moved to Braxton County on the headwaters of the Left Hand Ford of the West Fork (Siers Run), where Mr. Siers spent his boyhood and early young ...

Michael John James, 77 - Normantown. (02/18/2011) Michael John James age 77 of Normantown, West Virginia, passed away peacefully to the arms of the Lord on Thursday, February 17, 2011 in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, Weston. He was born September 20, 1933 in Gilmer County WV, a son of the late Aubra and Rhoda Whitsel … Hur is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office has closed. Named after novel "Ben Hur." The village once had three stores and two grist mills. 304-354-6183. 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 ...Grantsville, West Virginia. Calhoun County. Obituary Information. Hur Herald - Online Newspaper. Hur Herald Obituaries. Local Newspaper Obituaries.In 2020, here were 9,300 fewer students in West Virginia this school year than last and the decrease could cost the public education system nearly $43 million in state funding. Calhoun, now with a low student population of 862 (2020), a near record loss of 101 students. Calhoun has continued to struggle to provide basic services with School ...HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES - The Dark And Scary Woods, Hidden Gold (05/16/2022) THE DARK AND SCARY WOODS, TALES AND SECRETS. By Bob Weaver 2000. There are several thousand acres in the back woods of Calhoun, Gilmer and Braxton County, a section of forest mysteriously recalled with tales told, now essentially uninhabited.CALHOUN DUO ARRESTED MULTIPLE CHARGES. (04/29/2021) Calhoun authorities arrested a duo Tuesday and took them to Central Regional Jail. Adam Brock Roberts, 40, was charged with permitting DUI and possession of a controlled substance. Bond set $4,000 cash. Ariel Reanne Richards, 27, was charged with DUI controlled substance, possession of a ...

HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: WAS IT COLDER THAN A WELL-DIGGERS ARSE? (05/18/2022) By Bob Weaver. 2018 - HOW COLD WAS IT AT FROZEN, WEST VIRGINIA? Calhoun County has a great place-name for frigid weather - Frozen, on the edge of the Bear Fork wilderness.By Bob Weaver. Wilsie is a Braxton County ghost town on County Route 9 between Stumptown and Frametown, close to Rosedale. It once had a group of buildings and houses, including the D. O. Moyers Store and a post office. The post office closed in 2005. Wilsie was a thriving rural village and meeting place, now joining hundreds of WV towns and ...

2000. It is eight miles northwest of Grantsville, the Village of Big Bend, along the waters of the Little Kanawha River. It is often called Brooksville by old-timers in Sunny Cal, most people believing it was named after the presence of one of Calhoun's memorable old-time characters, Creed Brooks. Since the village was first established in 1856 ...BUCKHANNON - Arguably Buckhannon's most colorful and controversial character has passed away, according to one of his closest confidantes. Carson Yeager was well-known to many for his ornery antics and penchant for alcohol as he roamed city streets, utterly homeless, for many years of his life. But when he died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday ...We 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 …Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia Carson Erie Yeager, 72, of Buckhannon, WV. (03/23/2018) Carson Erie Yeager, 72, of Buckhannon, WV; formerly of Gilmer County, WV, passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 14, 2018. He was born October 4, 1945 at Index, WV, a son of the late Clay O. and Eula Bliss Bush Yeager. Carson is survived by four brothers, Clay O. Yeager, Jr. and wife ... NICHOLS WAS FULL OF GRACE - He Lived To Tell His War Story (11/06/2023) By Bob Weaver 2004. World War II vet Oral Nichols of Grantsville died this year, but not until he stood before a vet's day celebration last year at the Grantsville Senior Center and told his World War II story.Weirton, West Virginia, is a city full of hidden gems when it comes to women’s education. From top-notch educational institutions to empowering programs and initiatives, Weirton of...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.John Kelley, Amos Ash, James Hickman and B.J. Ash (Hur Herald Photo 2005) Early 1900 photo of Oscar Ash house on White Pine, a village that once had 350 residents. Still standing, a last "soldier" is the White Pine school. The church was moved about four feet off its foundation. It is a lovely place around the church. 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.

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 online in digital form since July of 1999, he began publishing by handing out over ...

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 ...

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.CALHOUN DUO ARRESTED MULTIPLE CHARGES. (04/29/2021) Calhoun authorities arrested a duo Tuesday and took them to Central Regional Jail. Adam Brock Roberts, 40, was charged with permitting DUI and possession of a controlled substance. Bond set $4,000 cash. Ariel Reanne Richards, 27, was charged with DUI controlled substance, possession of a ...HIs move from a military hospital heralds a new and murky chapter for the country. After six years behind bars, Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president ousted following the Ar...Among the earliest settlers was Rev. Squire Alexander Huffman, who born in Virginia and moved to Calhoun. He married Hannah Vannoy, and organized the first church services in 1810. His son, Absalom and his family are buried in the cemetery. The Huffman homestead, where several generations lived, is still standing across the Little Kanawha River.Harold R. Lockhart 80, of Palestine, West Virginia, passed away Monday, February 27, 2012 at Camden Clark Memorial Campus. He was the son of the late Ivan and Ica (Lott) Lockhart. He was a 1949 graduate of Wirt County High School, served in the US Army during the Korean War and retired from Johns Manville after several years of service. He ...MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT BERNARD BELL: HEROES LIFE RECALLED BY SISTER - "My Heart Is In West Virginia" (11/07/2023) ... She told The Hur Herald "My heart is in West Virginia." Lorena just turned 86. "I was born on Hog Knob," she said. Celebrating her birthday, she said "I went to see the Mothman Prophecies movie, because it took place in Pt ...WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Charleston Meth Murder, Killer Road Rage. (04/24/2021) METH MURDER - Police say a man killed in a Thursday evening shooting on Charleston's West Side was sparked by an argument over methamphetamine. Beau Alexander Hodge, 30, of Clendenin is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Charles "CJ" Thaxton, 29, of ...Charolette Mae Hathaway Taylor, 52, of Davisville, WV, died May 5, 2019 at her home in Davisville WV. She was born April 9, 1967, in Calhoun County, WV, the daughter of Ethel Powell Hathaway of Elizabeth, WV and the late Raymond Wesley “Wes” Hathaway. Charolette worked for Home Health Care.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'sLOOKING BACK: Mary Virginia Riggs McCoy Feeding Chickens at Hur WV. (03/05/2024) Virginia Riggs McCoy, wife of John Ira McCoy of Hur WV, feeding chickens in 1950's. Photo taken and processed by Bob Weaver/1953.WV'S OLDEST FLYING PILOT - Arnoldsburg's Captain Ford Rogers Died At 87. (03/09/2024) Rogers displays one of his many flying machines. 2012. An Arnoldsburg man who was recognized by the state's governor as being the oldest flying pilot in West Virginia has died. Captain Ford Rogers, who owned and operated Rogers Used Cars and Trucks for 47 ...The best account of Booger Hole is recorded in a small book written by Clay County resident Mary Lucinda Curry - "Booger Hole, Mysteries, Ghost Tales And Strange Occurrences." Curry first published her "Booger Hole" book. in 1990 and it is still available after all these years: Cindy. Curry, 3320 Ossia Road, Duck WV 25063, Send $5 plus $2 ...

HUR HERALD'S TOP 12 NEWS STORIES OF 2008: 12-31-2008: CALHOUN FALLS TO GILMER: 12-31-2008: CHLOE NEWS: ... HERALD ISSUES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST TO CONFIRM CRIME SPREE - State Police Decline Generic Information ... WEST VIRGINIA: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE - Customers Facing 30% Increase: …CRED, a two-year-old startup that is helping credit card users in India improve their financial behaviour, has raised $80 million in a new financing round, three sources familiar w...The Miami Herald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. Many readers choose a digital subscription over a home delivery. There are several different ways that allow you to receive ...Instagram:https://instagram. kinks ideasmcdonald's giddings txillinois 4a basketball rankingslevan saginashvili hand size HUR HERALD NEEDS HELP TO KEEP ARCHIVES/HISTORY ON-LINE (09/07/2023) ... Since the Herald is no longer using a business license, send checks to Bob Weaver, 7697 Pine Creek Road, Mount Zion WV 26151. (OR) PayPal to [email protected]. Contact phone 304-354-6183. ...west virginia has 8,300 homeless public school students: 11-04-2014: wv knife and gun club - fayette man murdered: 11-04-2014: chs volleyball defeat doddridge and wirt: ... hur herald will have weather report from frozen - a calhoun name place: 01-06-2014: wirt county has stand-by warming centers : horoscope cut off datesriverside county inmate search 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 ...A funeral service will be conducted at the Ellyson Mortuary, Inc., and Cremation Services, 2 Vanhorn Drive, Glenville WV at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 17, 2021 with Pastor Kenny Fisher officiating. Burial will follow in the Turner Cemetery near Lockney WV. Friends will be received from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Monday evening at the mortuary in Glenville ... barstool fran LOOKING BACK: Mary Virginia Riggs McCoy Feeding Chickens at Hur WV. (03/05/2024) Virginia Riggs McCoy, wife of John Ira McCoy of Hur WV, feeding chickens in 1950's. Photo taken and processed by Bob Weaver/1953.May 9, 2023 · 2/28/2022 The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of February 28, 2022, there are currently 3,045 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been nine deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 6,317 deaths attributed to COVID-19. DHHR has confirmed the deaths of an 83-year old male from Read ...