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12-31-20252022: GENTLEMAN, SCHOLAR AND ACTIVIST FOR THE COMMON MAN - Dr. Tony Russell Has Died
12-31-2025DAVID KIRBY'S PINE CRIK TALES - "The Whole World Blew Up, Like Getting Hit With A Sledge Hammer"
12-31-2025SIDNEY UNDERWOOD: SHIRLEY HOSEY - "Feared No Man, Survived Many Dangers"
12-31-2025THE GREAT NEW YEARS EVE CRASH OF 2011: DRIVER FLEEING FROM GRANTSVILLE POLICE DEMOLISHES FIVE VEHICLES - Driver Suspended DUI, "Worst Mess Ever"
12-31-2025CAWTHON'S CATHARSIS - Before I Doze Off, Happy New Year!
12-31-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - New Years Eve, A Wassail Bowl Of Thera-Flu
12-31-2025NEW YEARS EVE 1999: FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD - Calhoun More Old Than New, Lurching Into New Millennium
Minnie Hamilton Health System
12-30-2025 FADED FROM GLORY: GILMER STATION-BOWER NOW COAL GHOST TOWNS
12-30-2025DANIELS RUN NEWS 1902 - "Arise Blue Devil, Tell Us What You Know"
12-30-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - "Sure Was A Great Banjo Picker"
12-30-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Children Abandoned: The Pain That Never Went Away
12-30-2025'THE FLAMING FORGE OF LIFE' - See Family People Of Place, Spanning Three Centuries, Gip WV 100-Year-Old Blacksmith Shop
12-30-2025GINSENG HELPED LAUNCH PEREGRINE HAYS' GIGANTIC HOLDINGS - West Fork Holdings Exceeded 30,000 Acres
12-30-2025DR. HOWARD C. TOEPFER DELIVERED 5,000 CALHOUN BABIES - "He Took Hams, Chickens And Produce"
12-29-2025A FEW TOP 2019 CALHOUN NEWS STORIES
12-29-2025FIVE GENERATIONS OF OLETA CUNNINGHAM FAMILY MEET
12-29-2025THIS OLE HOUSE - Siblings Clung To Little Kanawha River Dwelling
12-29-2025"CALHOUN STUDENTS WERE THE GREATEST" - Educator Stalnaker Says "Country Boys Would Want To Whip Ya"
12-29-2025LOOKING BACK: Youth Drowns in Steer Creek in 1913
12-29-20252001 FLASHBACK: SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER - A Barnes Run Baptismal
12-28-20252024: CALHOUN HAS MASS SHOOTING ON PINE CREEK - Four Shot, Two Dead, PA Man Tribioli Charged
12-28-2025DARK HISTORY: WEST VIRGINIANS RECEIVED GRISLY LOBOTOMIES - Procedure Used At Spencer State Hospital, Disturbed Veterans Targeted
12-28-2025DARK HISTORY: WV LAST STATE TO ALLOW INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION - Officials Say Practice Not Used Since 1950s, Hundreds Of Mental Patients Received Lobotomies
12-28-2025DARK HISTORY: 230 WEST VIRGINIANS STERILIZED UNDER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM - Thousand More Had 'Ice-Pick' Lobotomies
12-28-2025DARK HISTORY: SPENCER STATE ASYLUM HAD TORTURED HISTORY - Old Paupers Cemetery Holds Hundreds Of Graves
12-28-2025LOOKING BACK TOP STORIES - Hur Herald 1999-2002
12-28-2025CALHOUN SUNDAY SCRAPBOOK - June, 2003, Vet Cain Treats Cat
12-28-2025 HUR HERALD NEWS 2002 - A Few Interesting Highlights From The Year That Was
12-27-20251800s: OLD WILD AND WOOLY NEWS GILMER COUNTY WV
12-27-20252020: HISTORIC CISTERN DISCOVERED IN RICHARDSON
12-27-2025MOST FASCINATING NEWS STORIES OF 2018
12-27-2025SOME TOP HUR HERALD NEWS STORIES FROM YEARS PAST
12-27-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: "HUMAN FLY" CLIMBED OLE CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL TOWERS
12-27-20252014: SPENCER MURDER VICTIM FINALLY LAID TO REST - Christian Dawn Starcher Seabolt Murdered In 2002
12-27-2025A MYSTERY: WHAT WAS THIS "THING?"
12-27-2025CALHOUNERS FEATURED IN STRANGE NAME BOOK - Joker And Big Ugly To Horneytown And Cukoo
12-27-2025FLASHBACK 2005: HUR HERALD NEWS PHOTOS CAPTURED LIFE AND TIMES
12-27-2025FLASHBACK 2005 RELAY FOR LIFE: YOU CAN'T BEAT "CURVACEOUS CHER" - Winners Judiciously Selected
12-27-2025LOOKING BACK 2001 - A Few Highlights From The Hur Herald
12-25-2025"WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR" - A Meditation On Christ's Nativity
12-25-2025MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU
12-25-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Christmas At A Place Called Home
12-25-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Village Of Hur's End Times, Angels Sing
12-24-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Mernie's Christmas Tree Gift
12-24-2025REMEMBERING: DR. CHARLES ALBERT STUMP (1927-2011) CAME HOME - 'The Bridge Between The Living And Dead Is Love'
12-24-2025BOB WEAVER 1958: GREETINGS FROM THE VILLAGE OF HUR
12-24-20252008: JOYFUL FACES - Santa Comes To Grantsville
12-24-202520+ YEARS AGO: SANTA CLAUS COMES TO TOWN
12-24-20252001: CHRISTMAS DAY AROUND SUNNY CAL - Some Folks Worked
12-24-2025NITRO WAGON EXPLOSION BLOWS MAN TO HEAVEN IN 1918
12-23-2025TORTUROUS TIMES FOR CALHOUN'S MOCCASIN RANGERS DECEMBER 1861
12-23-2025FLASHBACK: 1930 Sunday Outing, 16" Calhoun Pipeline Construction
12-23-2025THE LAND OF EGYPT - Roane County Road Longtime Spencer Access
12-23-2025SIDNEY UNDERWOOD: MY FATHER'S WATCH - A Christmas Gift That Keeps On Giving, Recalls Wayne Underwoods Passing
12-23-2025A JOYOUS BIG PUF CHRISTMAS - An Off-The-Wall Visit To Jack Cawthon's World
12-23-2025 2009 BLIZZARD HITS REGION - The Deepest Snow Since 1995-96, Major Power Outage, 1000s Stranded On WV Turnpike
12-23-2025HARRIET WHIPKEY: CHRISTMAS DAWNING
12-23-2025CALHOUN'S ARISTOTLE - "Anything You Wanted Him To Be, The King Of West Fork Eloquence"
12-22-2025REMEMBERING: 40-YEAR SCHOOL CALHOUN TEACHER BERNICE STUMP PASSES AT 94 - Her Life And Times
12-22-2025DANIELS RUN NEWS 1902 - "Post Office A Nuisance"
12-22-2025ICONIC SPACE IMAGE: "PILLARS OF CREATION"
12-22-2025A SHORT CHRISTMAS STORY: JESSI COSGROVE: "Just One Gift"
12-22-20252014: LAST "RUBBER GUN GANG" MEMBER PASSES
12-22-2025ODE TO CHARLIE BLAIR: "WE LIVE IN A WASTEFUL WORLD"
12-22-2025CHRISTMAS: HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED - Calhoun W. O. "Bill" Umstead 1966
12-22-20252006: FLASHING AXES CARVED LIFE IN THE CALHOUN WILDERNESS - Over 150 Years Have Passed Since Its' Birth 1856-2006 - "No Whup, No Holler"
12-22-202523 YEAR FLASHBACK - Pictures From The Holiday
12-21-2025THREE OLD GRANTSVILLE PHOTOS FOR 1930'S-1940'S
12-21-2025CINNI AND THE CHRISTMAS STORY
12-21-2025HUR "MEMORIES" PROJECT RECOGNIZES HARDY ANCESTORS - Their Labor A Gift To Us
12-21-2025KANAWHA HEAD SCENIC SPOT ON LITTLE KANAWHA WATERS
12-21-2025MACFARLAN'S FABLED RITCHIE MINES - From Fortune To Despair
12-21-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Jean Shepherd's Kindness, Then Comes A 'Christmas Story'
12-21-2025OLD NEWS - Christmas Days Of Yore
12-21-20252001: OPENING CHUCK'S CASKET AT THE GRAVE - 'Rest And Goodbye'
12-21-2025UNKNOWN FACES - The Farris Barr Collection 1905-1918 (No.17)

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