By Kaitlyn Eichelberger Preston County’s Buckwheat Festival is preparing to celebrate “80 Years of Memories.” Everyone is invited to join Preston County for four days of parades, carnival rides and games, livestock shows and sales, arts and crafts, a car show, and Preston ...
KINGWOOD — The Solid Waste Authority will put out bids for its e-cycle event in May. Don Smith, who represents the Preston County Commission on the SWA, said the bids will be opened during the June meeting. The e-cycle event will be Aug. 20. Smith said he would also like to change the ...
KINGWOOD -- This year, Aurora School is working to continue the great work that has already been done. That’s what principal Mandy White told the Preston County Board of Education at its regular meeting Monday evening. The school won first place with its float in the Buckwheat ...
KINGWOOD — Preston County business owners said sales were down substantially this year compared with previous Buckwheat Festival weeks. Sarah Davis, at Down Home Diner, which is next to Fireman’s Field, said the restaurant was busy Saturday and Sunday but not ...
KINGWOOD — Queen Ceres LXXIX Keely Jo Gregory and Buckwheat Festival Chairman Tarrell Ries were among the visitors to the annual car show on the last day of the festival at Kingwood Civic Center. Gregory said it was her first car show. Ries said the car show is held ...
A 62-year-old woman is accused of putting her gun to another woman’s head during the Buckwheat Festival. Marilyn Martin, of Gans, Pa., is charged with wanton endangerment by the Kingwood Police Department. At 7:12 p.m. Friday, an officer responded to a fight at 214 S. Price St., on ...