HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN)- The Regional Chamber of Commerce Children's Art Festival Extravaganza brought art and children together on the Ninth. St. Plaza between Third and Fourth Avenues on Saturday afternoon.
The event in it's fourth year used a recycling theme this year. An example was taking used newspapers and making decorative hats from them. There was also a station with printing inks using blocks of wood for stamping. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Council seems primed for approval of the purchase of a Harvey Road residence appraised at $59,000, where the road has becomeRead more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Huntington firefighters responded to an apartment in the 1100 block of 25th Street. The duplex was vacant. No injuries occurred. The alarm went out at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday morning , June 12.
You came into my life whimpering as a puppy. After you jumped into the back seat joyfully anticipating a ride, you did not know this trip would be to your earthly forever home.
But as the sun went lower on the Michigan earth, you sensed and whimpered about those you would no longer see. The mom, dad and siblings were left behind. You did not know they soon would be separated too, as your owner pulled up stakes for the Oregon TrailRead more
If you're looking for a touchy-feely, "I'm your buddy AND your dad" approach to parenting in Bruce Sallan's "A Dad's Point-of-View: We ARE Half the Equation" (JuneDavid Publishing, 264 pages, $19.95, discounted on Amazon, Kindle $7.79; from the author: website special is $12.95 and includes its companion poster http://brucesallan.com/index.php/store ) forget about it! If Amy Chua is the Tiger Mother of parenting, Bruce Sallan is the Lion King on skis.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Capt. Steve Hall , one of the lead investigators in two unsolved high profile cases, has died of brain cancer. Hall played a prominent role in the infamous quadruple Prom night homicides of four teens. He called the murders a “wake up” call for Huntington and detailed the Detroit cocaine connection.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV. – Head coach Bob Gray of the Marshall University men’s soccer team has announced the signing of three incoming players to join the Thundering Herd in 2011.Read more
After returning from an intensive three-week trip to the U.K., Belgium and the Czech Republic, talking with many people in business and scouring the print media, a few conclusions slam one right in the face:Read more
Blair, WV (HNN) – Upwards of 350 students, community leaders, union miners, artists, historical preservationists, and others will march to the base of historic Blair Mountain, W.Va. Friday afternoon, June 10 in preparation for a massive march and rally up the mountain Saturday. For five consecutive days they have marched under the hot sun and pouring rain - singing, chanting and carrying signs memorializing mountains destroyed and communities put in jeopardy by mountaintop removal. Read more
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
Any fairminded person realizes, especially in the wild world of collegiate sports, that fans and donors to a university have to be flexible, especially with a new hire, whether in a new head coach or athletic director. No one is perfect, and both roles require a unique individual who can handle stressful, multiple tasks. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Issues which touched the council ordinances introduction of additional police surveillance cameras in and around Fairfield and the award of an Old Main corridor construction contracthave apparently been resolved. During the Thursday, June 9, work session both ordinances due for second readings Monday night have been positioned for approval.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Two budget revisions on Huntington City Council’s Monday night agenda met no opposition at the Thursday council work session. As explained by Finance Director Deron Runyon, the revisions encompass routine money movement adjustments. Read more
Embattled WVU Head Football Coach Bill Stewart will resign soon, perhaps as early as Friday. So say multiple sources in Huntington, Scott Depot, and Morgantown. According to one of the sources, Stewart will collect $600,000 as part of a deal with the WVU Athletic Department. Read more
At their retreat in Guyana on May 21 and 22, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) Heads of Government are reported to have noted that the preamble to the revised CARICOM Treaty focuses exclusively on ‘economy’ and does not speak to ‘society’.
Two images of cats -- my favorite animal -- were burned into my brain when I finished reading Mara Hvistendahl's "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (PublicAffairs, 336 pages, notes, index, $26.99). One was of Puneet Bedi, a medical student in India, seeing a cat "bounding past him, a bloody blob dangling from its mouth." Stray dogs and cats were common in Indian hospitals in 1978, but what Bedi saw in that cat's mouth turned out to be an aborted fetus of a girl that was treated so casually -- left on a tray where any stray animal could find it -- "because it was a girl," a nurse told him.Read more
Some Marshall football fans might find the trials and tribulations of the WVU football program an entertaining carnival to watch lately. However, the real takeaway from this complete debacle is to have a better understanding of human behavior when dealing with personnel matters. Oliver Luck, whom all called brilliant when he came in as WVU's Athletic Director, has quite possibly done himself in due to a lack of basic awareness of what makes coaches tick. Read more
At the heart of "Super 8," are six kids in a 1970s Ohio steel town whose summer dreams of making their first Super 8 monster movie masterpiece are suddenly interrupted. After witnessing a horrific train accident, the mysterious events surrounding the crash reverberates through their friendships, their families and forever alters the way they view their lives. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – After hearing potential fire service brownout warnings regarding the remainder of the Fiscal Year 2010-2011, Huntington City Council compromised on fire department budget revisions. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – It’s “Super 8” weekend for West Virginia and the nation. The science-fiction thriller represents the most high profile film shot in the Mountain State, and, it’s getting exceedingly uplifting reviews from the nation’s critics, including one ‘best of summer’ projection.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) –Members of Local 289 of the International Association of Firefightersattending the Tuesday night, June 7, meeting unanimously passed a vote of “no confidence” regarding Huntington Fire Chief Craig Moore. Lt. Raymond Canafax, local president, informed Huntington City Council at the Wednesday, June 8 special meeting.Read more
CHARLESTON, WV – “Super 8” is one of the most anticipated films of the summer, and the West Virginia Film Office is launching a dedicated website to celebrate the release of the film which was shot in and around Weirton.Read more
Todd G. Buchholz uses dozens of examples from movies, plays and books to help make his point that stress and competition are good for people and countries in his extremely readable "Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race" (Hudson Street Press, a member of the Penguin Group, 304 pages, $25.95), but he left out one example that I think would have been useful.Read more
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted quickly to nationwide antinuclear protests re-ignited by the still-out-of-control radiation disaster at Fukushima, Japan. The Chancellor first ordered the powering-down of the seven oldest and most dangerous reactors in Germany, and she halted plans for any new reactor construction. Read more
EKSuccess Brands is recalling American Girl Crafts™ Pearly Beads & Ribbon Bracelets kits sold nationwide from September 2009 to June 2011. The surface coating on some of the beads contains excessive levels of lead. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The City of Huntington will host an open forum on Monday, June 13, 2011, to discuss the five-year implementation of the 2006 Marshall University Study conducted on behalf of the City. The discussion will take place in City Council Chambers at Huntington City Hall beginning at 6 p.m. Read more
The New York Sunday Times on November 28, 2010 published noted historian Geoffrey C. Ward’s review of a biography of President Theodore Roosevelt [TR].Read more
Canadian novelist and Esquire columnist Stephen Marche earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Shakespeare because he believed Shakespeare -- whose works encompass "the great globe itself" of high and low culture, to use the Bard's phrase -- would never bore him. The author of "How Shakespeare Changed Everything" (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins 224 pages, notes, $21.99, also available as an e-book) delivers a book for the general reader that even an English major like me can appreciate -- and there's not a drop of boredom in this little book.Read more
This week, West Virginia gas prices have increased a penny a gallon. This brings the current average price for a gallon of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline to $3.781 at the pump.Read more
I’m an avid skier and this past season I took on a role I never expected. I became the “helmet police,” whenever I saw people not wearing a helmet. I did my police work in a polite, respectful manner, but I couldn’t help but get a bit more passionate when I confronted “Parental Hypocrisy” in its finest: with skiing parents and their kids. Parental Hypocrisy is not taught in Parenting Classes or is a recommended Parenting skill or style.
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