CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The 18th-annual Putnam County Civil War weekend started Thursday morning at Valley Park, in Hurricane, and will continue through the weekend until 4 p.m. Sunday. The event commemorates two area land battles of the war — the July 17, 1861, Battle of Scary Creek and the March 28,[Read More…]
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Hong Kong students tour Huntington City Hall
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Fourteen students from Hong Kong will call Huntington home for the next few days and tour the city as part of an exchange program at Our Lady of Fatima Parish School. The students, accompanied by two teachers, are from Pentecostal Yu Leung Fat Primary School in Hong[Read More…]
WVU students hang around on campus
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Batman shows up for Huntington movie screening
HUNTINGTON – Riding off into the sunset in a fancy car sounds like the ending of a movie, but that became a reality for Tyler Romero as he left Pullman Square in the Batmobile Saturday. Romero was just one of 200 people who filled Pullman Square early Saturday for a[Read More…]
Country legend Hank Williams recalled in Oak Hill
OAK HILL, W.Va. — A crowd honored the memory of Hank Williams on Thursday in Oak Hill during a presentation ceremony of a memorial plaque. Williams was declared dead in the West Virginia town, after being discovered unresponsive in the back seat of his Cadillac while being driven to a[Read More…]
A different kind of presidential race
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Scores of Monongalia County elementary students gathered at Mylan Park Thursday, March 23, for the 25th annual Academic Games. Robin Marcus, coordinator of the event, said students in grades 3-5 engaged in equation exercises, in which they have to develop mathematical goals and equations to reach them[Read More…]
Trump campaign opens shop in Charleston
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Urban beavers gnaw on Charleston riverbank trees
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While legislators may not have been busy as beavers when it came to balancing West Virginia’s budget during the recently ended regular session, beavers have been sinking their teeth into the task of balancing their diets by downing trees along the Kanawha River a few hundred yards downstream[Read More…]
Colored egg and bunnies to pet in Morgantown
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Morgantown Public Library on Sunday, March 20, hosted its annual indoor Easter egg hunt. About 70 attendees, ranging from children aged two to ten, had 12 stations to choose from as well as the egg hunt. The children could pet four rabbits and look at a[Read More…]
Boys State Basketball – Parkersburg vs. Huntington
Parkersburg vs. Huntington