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Buckhannon’s Strawberry Festival in full swing
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Deann Baughman of Buckhannon and her family sit in the same spot every year to watch the various parades in the West Virginia Strawberry Festival. It’s a family tradition that’s been going on for the last five years. But that’s what the Strawberry Festival, which is in[Read More…]
Ripley mom, daughters win look-alike contest
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A retired librarian and her two daughters are the winners of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Mother-Daughter Look-Alike Contest. “Oh my goodness,” said an excited Daisy Bennett of Ripley. Her daughters are Gina Guffey, 50, of Leonardtown, Md., and Amy Phipps, 48, of Burns, Tenn. Bennett is[Read More…]
A Huck Finn day on the Kanawha River
Condominiums take shape in downtown Charleston
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Anyone who’s driven across the South Side Bridge into Charleston in recent months has been unable to miss one of the latest construction projects in downtown. Crews from Richard Wilbur Builders Inc. have spent the first part of the year gutting the five-story office building next to the[Read More…]
W.Va. officials worried about work zone speeding
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Reckless driving and excessive speeding through Interstate work zones in West Virginia’s capital have become such a problem in recent months that State Police may soon be asked to help enforce posted speed limits, a Department of Transportation spokesman said Wednesday. While there is no timetable yet[Read More…]
Demolition of Charleston recycling building begins
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After years of problems and months of planning, the first bricks of the century-old building at the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority’s Slack Street recycling center came tumbling down Tuesday morning. An excavator pulled and pushed at the wall of the building closest to the public drop-off as[Read More…]
Huntington cleanup draws residents of all ages
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A few years ago, Jana Stoner of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church gave Monty Fulton of First Presbyterian Church a call. She and a group from her congregation had been to Joplin, Mississippi, to clean up the aftermath of the devastating 2011 tornado, and came upon a nondenominational[Read More…]
