Times Past

10 Years Ago Week of October 23, 2014   Teaching Youth  To Volunteer   According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 64.5 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2011 and September 2012. While those statistics do not include children under...

10 Years Ago Week of October 16, 2014 State Asked To Adopt Two Franklin Streets County school officials and the Town of Franklin are asking the State of West Virginia to take over full maintenance duties, from snow removal to paving, for Lee Drive and part of South Branch Street....

50 Years Ago Week of October 10, 1974 Man on the Move,  Virgil Byrde Has Walked 60,000 Miles in 16 Years Walking is a lost art for most people, but not for Virgil Byrde. He has been on the road for the past 16 years, constantly moving from place to...

10 Years Ago Week of September 25, 2014   Gran Fondo Cyclists To Pass Through Franklin     The 107-mile Alpine Loop Gran Fondo cycling event will pass through the county seat and parts of the county on Sunday. The event was founded three years ago by a professional mountain bike...

10 Years Ago Week of September 11, 2014 SUGAR GROVE Education  Was the Responsibility  Of Church and Home  The beginning of education in Pendleton County was very much a responsibility of the church and home. Teaching children in those early days was considered very private. Parish pastors assumed responsibility for...

40 Years Ago Week of September 13, 1984 Honest and Dependable Forgers Help Revive Blacksmithing  As New Art Form by Boris Weintraub National Geographic News Service David A. Ponsler, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla., watched carefully as Francis Whitaker, 77, a master blacksmith from Aspen, Colo., bent a piece of steel...

40 Years Ago Week of September 13, 1984 Honest and Dependable Forgers Help Revive Blacksmithing  As New Art Form by Boris Weintraub National Geographic News Service David A. Ponsler, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla., watched carefully as Francis Whitaker, 77, a master blacksmith from Aspen, Colo., bent a piece of steel...

10 Years Ago Week of September 4, 2014   Locals Need to Tell  GSA What They Want  At Sugar Grove—Manchin   Sen. Joe Manchin III, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia Division of Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein toured the Sugar Grove Navy base last Tuesday to determine its suitability...

10 Years Ago Week of August 28, 2014 ‘Gazette’ Story Tells  Allegheny Problems The most widely circulated and influential daily newspaper in the state, “The Charleston Gazette,” dedicated some of the front page of its Sunday edition to a lengthy story about the perilous stretch of Rt. 33 on Allegheny...

20 Years Ago Week of August 26, 2004   SUGAR GROVE   Writer Shares  ‘Rules for Teachers’   Summer has sped by like a red hot arrow shot from a blazing sun. The midsummer flowers are blooming all along the roadsides. There are patches of eye-pleasing contrasts of black-eyed-Susans interspersed...