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PINEVILLE - Every kind of ghost and goblin you can imagine, and animals and even dinosaurs, roamed the streets of Pineville last month during the annual Autumn Festival.
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HUNTINGTON - You can get a fresh look and take at Appalachia in the new documentary "hillbilly" that is being screened in Huntington and Charleston.
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HUNTINGTON- Tamara D. Huffman has established an endowed scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in memory of her mother, E. Pauline Harrell.
Wyoming County Commission to meet
PINEVILLE - The Wyoming County Commission will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 21, in the County Commission Meeting Room at the Riverside Complex.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - More than 900,000 pounds of prescription medications were voluntarily disposed of in a single day at nearly 6,000 collection sites nationwide during the 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 27, according to a release by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Louisville Field Division.
GILBERT - Republican incumbent Mark Dean won re-election to the House of Delegates District 21 seat, which includes the southern half of Mingo County as well as parts of Wyoming and McDowell counties.
HUNTINGTON - Facing adversity and a tied game against the Charlotte 49ers in the third quarter, Marshall University's football team needed a lift.
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HUNTINGTON - Marshall University began preparations to send off a batch of new graduates in December with its semi-annual Countdown to Commencement that concluded Nov. 7.
CHARLESTON - Daniel Tucker, 26, said he can't remember how many times he tried to quit opioids, but now he's on his longest stretch of sobriety.
In the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 24, Democrat incumbent Ralph Rodighiero and Democrat Tim Tomblin defeated Republicans Jordan Bridges and Aaron Stone.
I came across a book that I had almost forgotten the other day. It was written by Jack Craft in 1969.
Jack Craft was the founder of Consolidated Bus Lines, which served the southern coalfields for many years before everyone owned a car. Emblazoned on every Consolidated bus, below the company name, was written "Serving the Billion Dollar Coalfields."
CLEAR FORK - Emma Grace McCoy was laid to rest in a ceremony at Christ Community Church Friday morning after she died following a long illness.
NEW RICHMOND - Four years ago Dalton Blake was talked into joining the Wyoming East cross country team by some friends.
NEW RICHMOND - Emily Saunders remembers the feeling of being just a little bit different than everyone. At 6-foot-4, she isn't hard to spot.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A retired Army paratrooper and West Virginia lawmaker seeking to restore the Democratic Party's blue-collar roots chose Veterans Day to formalize his campaign for the presidency in 2020.
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GLEN DANIEL - There are shockers.
Then there was Friday's Wyoming East at Liberty game.
It wasn't so much that Liberty won the game, and thus ended a 25-game losing streak that dated back to 2016.
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PINEVILLE - While many people are aware there are nurses in Wyoming County's school system, most are not aware of the depth of the tasks they perform.
PINEVLLLE - Christy Laxton never wanted to leave her community that she loves.
Turns out she didn't have to - and her ability to come home again has been both a boon to the community and a sense of pride for the Wyoming County native.
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PINEVILLE - The Town of Pineville hosted its annual Autumn Fest 2018 on Saturday, Oct. 27.
Autumn Fest coordinator and Pineville Recorder Victoria Knight Clay provided this list of winners:
PINEVILLE - Here is the October arrest report from the Wyoming County Sheriff's Department, arranged in order of date, with suspect's name, charge, and the name of the arresting officer:
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PINEVILLE - The Pineville Lions Club is sponsoring a walk at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17.
The walk, which will begin at the Wyoming County Courthouse steps, will help sponsor diabetic children, ages 7-15, from Wyoming County to attend Camp Kno-Koma.
There are plenty of adventure opportunities in the Mountain State. Each offers residents and visitors interesting ways to enjoy the state's scenic outdoors.
Courtesy of Donna Musgrave
The Upsilon Master Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority held a meeting and Halloween Social on Oct. 23 at the home of Donna Musgrave in Pineville.
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LOGAN - Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College is partnering with the West Virginia Attorney General's Office to offer a Senior Citizen Cyber Security workshop.
Seems like I never tire of looking at the archives and reading about stuff that is, in some ways, very ordinary. But a lot of the day-to-day happenings seem a little odd today.
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Students in elementary and middle schools in Wyoming County have transportation home from after-school functions or tutoring, thanks to the county's activity buses.
CLEAR FORK - Westside had to pick its poison Friday night when it hosted Oak Hill in the season finale at the Burial Ground.
When Amber Atkinson graduated from River View High School, she told her husband she wanted to find something meaningful to do - "something that drew me in," she said. Now, two years later, each time the Bradshaw native travels through McDowell County, she's filled with a sense of pride.
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