Seven decades later – almost – and Tom Hellyer still looks back with a chuckle and knowing nod. He’d been had, you see. “Yeah, that Marine knew what he was […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
Warner: Everyone equal in the voting booth
JBissett@DominionPost.com Colson Jenkins grinned as he handed over his voter registration form Thursday morning at University High School.“I’m going straight to the source,” the senior said.Said source, in this case, […]
1985 Election Day Flood: Of buried firetrucks, unaware goldfish and a mission bigger than it all
JBissett@DominionPost.com ROWLESBURG – Rick Felton worked for the railroad and was used to hearing metal on metal.Still, the CSX brakeman was sonically unprepared for what shrieked across the night before […]
Woman still marvels that she and her daughter survived the 1985 Election Day Flood
JBissett@DominionPost.com My God, Jen. I gotta get Jen. Help me. Please.Call that a clothesline prayer.Robin Moore sent it bubbling through the chop just after midnight on Nov. 5, 1985, when […]
A first down – on every play: Ridgedale teacher energizes class with ‘NFeLementary’
JBissett@DominionPost.com He doesn’t mind if you call him “Cheesehead” – no sir, not one bit.And on Tuesday morning, this fourth-grade football fan received a free backpack from his favorite NFL […]
Injunction to stop sale of Manchin Health Care Center denied
JBissett@DominionPost.comMarion County judge has denied the injunction that would have stopped Friday’s sale of the John Manchin Sr. Health Center in Fairmont. Judge Matt Delligatti made his ruling at the […]
‘A good guy taken too soon’
Lisa Lataille gave a little smile Monday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Monongalia County Justice Center. Minutes before in the glass-walled center, Magistrate Dimas Reyes accepted the […]
One foot in front of the other: ‘Kickin’ it for Katy foundation to award scholarships for mental health pursuits
FAIRMONT – Kaitlynn Jade “Katy” Newbraugh, by the accounting of all who knew her, was a top-achieving kid who liked to watch out for her family, her neighbors and the […]
‘Old show building’ about to get its name back in lights
MANNINGTON – Did you go on your first date at the Mannington Movie Theater? Or maybe you popped in later, after the place had been reinvented as a bar and […]
Mold, humidity issues being addressed at East Fairmont High School
FAIRMONT – That’s the thing about mold. It comes back. Marion County Schools Superintendent Donna Heston delivered that biology lesson, most basic, to Board of Education members earlier this week. […]
