HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - A special "call" council meeting will be held Monday, August 29 at 5:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers, according to Mark Bates, chairman. The agenda will include second reading of the street paving ordinance and first reading of an ordinance proposing a comprehensive review by an outside consultant for the Huntington Fire Department. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - The following is the agenda for tonight's meeting of Huntington City Council at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at Huntington City Hall. The prayer and pledge will precede the evening's agenda. Read more
Just a few weeks ago, Morgantown businessman Bill Maloney was in high cotton, having bested two more seasoned Republicans to secure the nomination of the WV GOP for Governor--all on his first try. Granted, Maloney had more money to spend in that race than his opponents. In the general election, to be held on an obscure Saturday in early October, Maloney will face a candidate more flush with funding: Earl Ray "Big Earl" Tomblin. Read more
ST. LOUIS, MO (HNN) - ENEWS has reported that "St. Louis rain sample shows radiation dose on August 20, almost triple previous high reading. An Examiner reporter said that a citizen reporter following the advice of Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, demonstrated with a Geiger Counter that background radiation following rainfall was 178 times normal. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV(HNN) - Good movies strongly advocate a new perspective making you think. Better movies expose the viewer to new ideas allowing them to form opinions. The best movies often change your mind about a subject while coaxing a tear or two from your eyes. ‘Doughboy” is the latter.Read more
If I were to place one each of the following seeds in the palm of my hand, the space covered would be negligible: cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, squash, egg plant, pepper, okra, tomato and corn. Yet if I plant them, cultivate them and harvest them I have the makings of meals and a gloriously tasteful handout from nature. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Several good things were happening at the Dutch Miller Summer Concert Series at Pullman Square on Thursday evening. The 6 PM show that is often not announced started with a surprise concert from Lucy Angel a world touring trio from Nashville, TN. The three attractive women are mother Kate and her daughters Lindsay and Emily.They were apparently traveling in West Virginia and got booked for the Dutch Miller Concert Series at the last minute. The audience loved them and Lucy Angel may have got a lot of new fans. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Having won the $100,000 Pet Safe prize, Huntington broke ground on the new dog park Thursday, August 18. PetSafe CEO Randy Boyd came to Huntington Thursday afternoon with a $100,000 check he presented to Executive Director of the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District (GHPRD) Kevin Brady at the construction site for the new Ritter Dog Park.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Marshall University started the semester with their third annual recreation festival by welcoming new students to campus exposing them to many businesses and organizations in the area. Banks, restaurants, health care and local companies were set up on part the gym floor and were handing out things like coupons, samples, markers, pens and literature telling about who they are and what they have to offer. The Cabell Huntington Health Department was offering free screenings and vaccinations. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Children enjoy animals from the Columbus Zoo as part of Fifth Third Bank's celebration of their new location at 517 Ninth Street. Read more
“Nuclear weapons are not the causes of conflict, they are symptoms of a threat environment already predisposed to war”--Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, "Why civil resistance works: The strategic logic of nonviolent conflict" (p. 63). Read more
New Hampshire YR Straw Poll Results Startle Establishment Candidates Romney and Perry
Forget Pepsi; it appears that veteran Texas congressman Ron Paul is the choice of a new generation.At the New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll and Lobster Bake in New Castle New Hampshire on Saturday, August 20, Paul, taking 45 percent of the total votes, soundly defeated his rivals for the Republican nomination, beating second –place finisher Governor Mitt Romney by over 35 percent of all votes cast.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN)- Hockey fans and dog lovers each have a Saturday event or meeting in Downtown Huntington. First,the Huntington Ice Sports Coalition meets at 12 noon at the Cabell County Library’s main branch . They will discuss prospects for reviving a professional hockey team for the city.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Thursday’s Huntington City Council work session revealed pending motions to refer numerous agenda items for Finance Committee review. Read more
Huntington, WV (HNN) - Your Huntington Symphony Orchestra announced today that the next Picnic with the POPS will be Saturday Aug. 20, 2011. The theme for this Tailgating Orchestra Style event is, “A Tribute to the American Heroes”. Read more
Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), showing mortgage rates, fixed and adjustable, reaching all-time record lows providing further incentive for those homeowners looking to refinance. The 30-year fixed averaged 4.15 percent, breaking the previous record low of 4.17 percent set November 11, 2010. Read more
The brilliance of the “Mad Men” television series lies in the crackerjack acting and script, but even more in the way the series dramatizes the paradigm shift of American women from gross subjugation to rough equality. In an early episode, protagonist Don Draper reluctantly allows his wife to consult a (male) psychiatrist, and then calls the doctor, who casually violates confidentiality. The series explains much about how the males of my generation often haplessly misunderstood or deliberately ignored the autonomous subjectivity of females. Read more
Anyone who was on the fence about the appeal of road course racing leading up to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Watkins Glen International on August 15 must now have surely cold-shouldered the “road courses are boring” side in favor of the side simply known as “wow.” Read more
If you've read Anne Perry's 2009 novel "Execution Dock" featuring William and Hester Monk, her new "Acceptable Loss" (Ballantine Books, 320 pages, $26.00) will sound familiar. If you haven't, not to worry: Perry has included more than enough information from the previous novel to make "Acceptable Loss" stand on its own two legs. Read more
MARFORK, W.Va.—Catherine-Ann MacDougal is descending her oak tree on Coal River Mountain that she has lived in for the past month in protest of strip mining, and police have been notified.Read more
Office Depot Inc. is recalling Realspace™ PRO 3000 Series Desk Chairs sold nationwide and in Canada from May 2009 to June 2011. A consumer's finger can get caught in an opening in the chair's tilt mechanism, posing a pinch hazard. Read more
After wasting nearly three years and Lord knows how many trillions of American treasure in a futile effort to purchase jobs with government money, President Obama has signaled that he is finally getting serious. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV- The wait is over! Individual tickets to all Marshall Artists Series 2011-2012 events will go on sale Monday, August 22nd at 10 a.m.! From musical powerhouses Elvis Costello, Michael McDonald and Glen Campbell, to Tony-Award winning Broadway musicals full of toe—tapping tunes,Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - This mid-August weekend will toss movies of nearly all genres at viewers, hoping that one will rise above "Planet of the Apes" and "The Help."
However, for many in our area, schools have opened earlier than normally due to the persistent bad winters with excessive snow days. As a result, cinemas have in some cases already switched to post-Labor Day schedules, i.e. no weekday matinees. Another impact of the early start of school, the Friday Night Lights schedules tend to impact flicks.Read more
Ed Asner better known as journalist Lou Grant narrates a new documentary on the destruction of World Trade Center 7. Asner, and architect, Richard Gage, AIA, narrate an unfolding story that decimates the official account ("collapse due to normal office fires") of this 47 story high-rise which was destroyed on the afternoon of 9/11 in record time: top to bottom in under 7 seconds - and at free-fall acceleration for a third of its fall. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – A definition of “economic development” in a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) document regarding CDBG funds sent a future Kinetic Park sales proposal back for clarification.Read more
Existing-home sales declined in July from an upwardly revised June pace but are significantly higher than a year ago, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 18 by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Monthly gains in the Northeast and Midwest were offset by declines in the West and South. Read more
Housing affordability in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2011 hovered for the 10th consecutive quarter near its highest level in the more than 20 years it has been measured, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 18, by the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) data. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV – Marshall University’s Bachelor of Science in Safety Technology Program has been reaccredited through Sept. 30, 2016 by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission (ASAC) of ABET, Inc.
Exercise and recreation ... are as necessary as reading; I will say rather more necessary, because health is worth more than learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. —Thomas Jefferson, W&M Class of 1762
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. -- George Carlin (1937-2008) Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV - The Marshall University men’s soccer team warmed up for its 2011 season on Wednesday afternoon with an exhibition match against the visiting VMI Keydets.Read more
