Several area high school band students are adding their musical talents to the Charleston Chamber Orchestra, and they're bound for the Big Apple later this year to perform at a world-class venue at 881 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan.
Veterans of Foreign Wars members in Chesapeake, Alum Creek and Elkview saluted one of their own, Keith E. Harman, the national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, when he spoke to the groups on April 18.
My hometown in northern West Virginia was small in population, but big in cultural diversity.
Putnam Countians ages 18 years or older can make some money — and memories — this summer, by becoming AmeriCorps members for the West Virginia University Extension Service Energy Express program.
For the second season, the West Virginia Power, the low-Class A farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is being headed up by Wyatt Toregas.
At the entrance to Gideon Woods, a few feet past the semi-circular bald patch for parking, there were deep ruts like someone started to drive in a pickup truck, changed their mind and backed out.
The West Virginia Council of Churches will host a community event next week in Hurricane that will include free Naloxone training, a screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Heroin(e)” and a panel discussion addressing substance use disorder.
Despite a difficult winter where a lot of things were up in the air, and other things seemed to be falling out of the sky, they are beginning to pop up around town. They are an indication of things to come.
Buffalo Elementary School music teacher Levi Billiter struck up the band for his students on Friday, April 13, and youngsters listened to -- and learned from -- the University of Rio Grande Chorale.
Sign-ups are underway through Friday, April 20, for 32 teams to get rolling and bowl for prizes — plus a good cause for area youths — on Saturday, April 21.
Putnam County is one of the fastest growing regions of West Virginia.
I was introduced to Moroccan cuisine many years ago when Marshall University instructor Marianne Waterbury offered a Mediterranean cooking class.
Whether cross country or track, Hurricane runner Chase Basham runs with the head of the pack.
Indian cinema is the vibrant, lively springboard for the eighth annual Bollywood Night West Virginia fundraiser, to benefit Manna Meal and WV Health Right.
Four left turns were all it took to get to Gideon Woods from my house. I probably could’ve made it in 15 minutes, maybe even 10. If there wasn’t so much to see and do.
The West Virginia Food Truck Festival is rolling into Hurricane this weekend.
Members of the Regional Intergovernmental Council and other agencies conducted an open house on Thursday, April 5, at the Putnam County Library in Hurricane to present plans to improve and augment bicycle and pedestrian facilities throughout the county.
I’ve been helping a friend with his small business. That has meant driving around the state, and even some brief forays into Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Gateway Christian Church will host its annual Jesus Prom Sunday, April 29, at St. Albans High School.
My hometown in northern West Virginia was small in population, but big in cultural diversity.
The fourth annual Dog Jog, Putnam County's largest 5K run/walk event that combines paws for a cause, will be held in mid-June at Valley Park in Hurricane.
When most people hear the word “poison,” or hear about the West Virginia Poison Center, they think of a child getting into household cleaning supplies kept under the sink. People who do not have children in their home often wonder why they should have the West Virginia Poison Center’s number…