By JANELLE HUNTER The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register MARTINS FERRY, Ohio — Eggnog is seasonally produced by Martins Ferry’s United Dairy and shipped across the region to cater to those who enjoy the traditional holiday drink. United Dairy has three plants in operation — the original plant in Martins Ferry,[Read More…]
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Elf off the Shelf goes ‘wild’
The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — The Inter-Mountain mail room employee Bryan ‘Lee’ Remano entertains guests as the Elf on the Shelf character during The Inter-Mountain’s ‘Wild Wednesday’ promotion where newspapers featured $162,000 in potential Black Friday savings. Also pictured is The Inter-Mountain Business Office Manager Marcia Myers. See more from[Read More…]
Turkeys a minute, but tasty, part of business for small WV farms
By MAX GARLAND Charleston Gazette-Mail SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — Although West Virginia is projected to raise 3.5 million turkeys for all of 2017, some small farmers are unsure they’ll be adding more to that figure in the years ahead. “Given the difficulties, it remains a small part of our business,” Shady[Read More…]
A Thanksgiving Tail: The year the turkey got away
By LAURA DEAN BENNETT The Pocahontas Times I came across a picture by Norman Rockwell the other day, titled, Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey. It put me in mind of an old family story from way before I was born – about the year everyone had Thanksgiving at Aunt[Read More…]
‘We literally can’t keep up:’ Opioid crisis causing backlog in forensics
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth part of a seven-part series on West Virginia University’s efforts to address the opioid crisis in the state. The speakers in this series shared the work and progress in their respective fields and departments at an academic media day held by WVU on[Read More…]
WV Parks invite people to choose hikes over long lines on Black Friday
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail As an alternative to inching toward checkout lines amid hordes of shoppers on Black Friday, two West Virginia state parks and the New River Gorge National River are offering free, guided “Opt Outside” hikes to scenic locales in natural settings. Opt Outside hikes began in[Read More…]
Oglebay Good Zoo offers new reindeer exhibit encounter in Ohio County
By SCOTT McCLOSKEY The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Oglebay Park’s Good Zoo has built a brand new reindeer exhibit just in time for the Christmas holiday. To enjoy the exhibit — referred to as “Santa’s Reindeer Training School” by zoo officials — patrons have the option of[Read More…]
West Virginia ski season ready to begin
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Joe Stevens has just about given up trying to predict what the weather will be for West Virginia’s annual ski season. “It’s weather,” the spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association said. “We’re going to weather the weather, whatever the[Read More…]
Be safe out there: AAA warns of holiday parking lot accidents
Staff report The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — AAA reminds shoppers to keep a watchful eye out for vehicles and pedestrians this holiday season. With Thanksgiving marking the official start of the holiday shopping season, the number of shoppers visiting stores will increase dramatically. Officials say vehicle and[Read More…]
Japanese bride returns to Beckley for Thanksgiving
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Michiko Ohira Crysel celebrated her first Thanksgiving in West Virginia, after coming to the United States as a war bride in 1959. She’s in West Virginia again to share the holiday with friends who welcomed her when she started her journey as[Read More…]
