November 2007:
November 30, 2007
Rocco's Goes to Hollywood
Food Network Discovers Ristorante
By Tony Seaton
Huntington News Network
Chef Rocco Muriale and his restaurant will be featured on a show hosted by another chef, Food Network's Guy Fieri, called Diners, Drive-ins and Dives next season ...
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November 28, 2007
Christmas Parade Draws Hundreds Downtown
Up Fourth Avenue and Down Third to Pullman
By Tony Seaton
Huntington News Network
Miss the Christmas Parade Tuesday night? Forget there was one? Hundreds lined both Fourth and Third Avenues to see it for themselves, but if you weren't one of them, we've got just the thing for you. A quick video recap of the parade, the Grinch program and the tree lighting at Pullman.
Two hours condensed into a few minutes of video and some still pix too. Such a deal.
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November 19, 2007
Kayford Mountaintop Removal Continues Unabated
Massey and Magnum Coal Companies Continue Ripping Apart Famous Mountain
By Tony Seaton
Huntington News Network
The view from the "high wall" or Hell's Gate, as Larry Gibson, self-styled "Keeper of the Mountain," calls it, above the mining site, is not pretty. Thousands of aces of pristine hardwood forest are simply gone. Dumped into nearby hollows and streams as"valley fill." 750 feet of forest and soil and rock have been stripped away to get at one coal seam about five feet thick which had been that deep in the former underground. Coal companies tout mountaintop removal as a safer, cheaper and quicker way than deep mining to supply power companies burgeoning demand for Appalachia's top-shelf bituminous coal. Environmentalists, clean water advocates and folks whose homes happen to sit atop coveted seams that are often already owned by coal companies, disagree. They say that not only is the true cost of mountaintop removal not considered, but that the world's oldest mountain chain will never recover from the assault on its ecosystems. Meanwhile, "draglines" the size of buildings and trucks with 16 foot- tall tires continue tearing the mountains of West Virginia asunder.
Watch producer Tony Seaton's video with Larry Gibson and a group of James Madison University students who came over from Virginia to see first-hand what mountaintop removal looks like.
November 15, 2007
37th Annual Marshall Memorial Service
Hundreds turn out for first Post "We Are" ceremony
By Tony Seaton
Huntington News Network
Many speakers talked about the hope "We Are Marshall" embodied in its tale of the rebuilding of the Marshall football program and the healing of the Huntington community after the plane crash that took 75 lives 37 years ago Wednesday. "The real story was not the win over Xavier," said Parker Ward, who lost his father in the crash and was the keynote speaker, "It really was about keeping the football team."
Coach Mark Snyder, Marshall President Kopp, Chief of Police Skip Holbrook and Red Dawson, who sat in the crowd for the first time were just some of the attendees among hundreds. They listened to music, heard prayers and addresses and watched as the Memorial Fountain was turned until the spring.
See video of how it all looked and sounded by clicking a picture above.
November 4, 2007
Great American Rampage Tour
Karnivool, Ankla, Skindred and Nonpoint Rock Monkey Bar
Four bands you've maybe never heard of kicked out the jams Thursday at Huntington's Monkey Bar. They're all label-mates on Bieler Bros. records and Huntington was their 5th stop on a multi-state tour that's expected to see them hitting more than 40 venues. Skindred and Nonpoint talked to producer Tony Seaton before their shows and told him what they hoped to bring to the stage.
Click on any pic for their interview clips and bits of the concert.
And click on their links to learn more about them and hear more of their music.
