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Suspicious fire guts warehouse
Photo by Roger Adkins
A Parkersburg firefighter feeds a hose line into a warehouse on Seventh Street that caught fire Wednesday.
August 28, 2008
PARKERSBURG — A warehouse was gutted Wednesday by a fire that investigators believe may have been intentionally set.
A firefighter sustained minor injuries during the incident at Bear Run Auto Wrecking, 625 Ryan St., Parkersburg, said Capt. Jason Kuhl of the Parkersburg Fire Department. The warehouse is owned by Ron Vaughan and is located off of Seventh Street behind the Dairy Queen.
Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 7:30 p.m., and saw flames and heavy smoke coming from the building, Kuhl said.
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Search warrant led to animal rescue effort
August 28, 2008
PARKERSBURG — Complaints about pollution and animal living conditions led to a what has become the largest animal rescue effort ever conducted in West Virginia.
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Any and all doubts erased by Clinton
August 28, 2008
Editor’s note: Robert Rupp, a political historian at West Virginia Wesleyan College, is providing a daily journal of analysis and happenings from the Democratic National Convention.
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Car hits school bus
August 27, 2008
MARIETTA — A combination of speed and too many occupants in a car may have contributed to a Tuesday afternoon crash on Jennings Hill Road involving a carload of teens and a school bus.
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Jay, Bill and Joe address DNC 8-27-08
Thu, August 28, 2008 @ 8:34AM
Hillary Clinton released her delegates (of course including me, Jean and her other WV Delegates) on Wed, 8-27-08 at a giant meeting around 1:300 Mountain Time. at the Convention Center - a huge building which is not the same at the Pepsi Center where the DNC is held. By that decision she formally ended her campaign and freed us to vote as we wished. She told us that she was voting for Obama. Voting started at 3:00 PM at the Pepsi Center and it takes 1 1/2 hours to get from the Convention Center to the Pepsi Center, so needless to say we were really cutting it close to get there, but we made it - barely! Jean and I were joined by my wife Michele (Shelly) Rusen, our son Kirk Auvil and his friend and fellow PSHS Senior, Jared Bailey. Kirk and Shelly stayed Tuesday night so Kirk could play in the PSHS/PHS boys soccer game Tuesday night. Sadly for us, South lost 1-0 to go 1-2 on the young season.
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Music for the masses
Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 10:08AM
I have been a music reviewer nearly as long as I have been a reporter. This means I have a load of CDs that are pretty bad. The reason is simply because in the early days of my career, I had a pretty unlimited supply of music sent to my college. New and established artists' new CDs would be shipped by the cart load to the newspaper office and, as the only CD reviewer on campus, I was handed boxes to lug back to the dorms and I kept what I wanted and what no one else wanted. I was more than happy when I came to this office and was given the freedom to review what I want without need of keeping anything. But, with this large collection, it's difficult to keep track of the music I love. CDs I have fallen for have been lost. Between loaning them out (I like to share what I enjoy with friends) and going from car to car, music I enjoy has disappeared. Their memory lives on with the empty cases shoved under my bed and hidden in storage bins in the attic.
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What an Amazing Race!
Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 2:07PM
What an awesome weekend for the half marathon. The weather was picture perfect, the competition was fierce, and everyone seemed to run or walk great races. I had a wonderful time coordinating the race this summer. I got to work with a great group of committee members and volunteers who take great pride in the half marathon and two-mile race. This race wouldn’t be possible without the help of the community and the various sponsors. I’m not sure if many people were aware, but I got to ride in the lead truck. It was such a feeling of accomplishment to see all of the runners take off and fill Juliana Street. Everything I’ve been working on all summer finally fell into place and ran smoothly.
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Olympics
Tue, August 12, 2008 @ 12:29PM
I've been watching the summer Olympics on television - I always forget how much fun the sports are until I start watching them. Several times, the Beijing sky, in all it's smoggy glory has been shown. I have heard that many people are wearing masks to limit their exposure. It seems to me that it would be a great location to make some money -"Finest medical masks available. Allows you to take a deep breath and not worry! Guaranteed to stop everything but oxygen!" Hopefully, no one is being scammed because they did not take a mask over with them but I would expect several vendors to have masks for sale at incredibly high prices. May be I should have purchased stock in a medical mask making company before the Olympics started. Oh well. Too late now.
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Dogs going here
Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 8:44AM
I've gotten several inquiries about where the dogs from the Whispering Oaks Kennel are going. They're going to these places, according to the Humane Society of Parkersburg: Washington Animal Rescue league; Virginia Beach SPCA; Dachshund Rescue of North America Danville Area SPCA; Best Friends (for dogs with special needs); North Shore Animal league; The Sterile Feral; Ohio Federation of Humane Societies including Capital Area Humane Society, Cleveland Animal Protective League, Allen County Humane Society, Delaware County Humane Society, Cincinnati Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society of Greater Dayton; Luv 4K9s; Citizens for Humane Action; Lucky Star Cavalier Rescue/English Toy Rescue; Society for Improvement of the Coalition of Stray Animals; Purebred Rescue of Ohio; A Forever Home. A hundred dogs have been placed with an animal rescue group from Missouri.
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Author Book Signing
Mon, August 25, 2008 @ 10:46AM
Local author Patsy Evans Pittman will be signing her book, "Blood Kin & Other Strangers," a collection of Appalachian stories and poems, from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store. You can find out more about the book at www.publisherpage.com.
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Take me out of the ballgame
Thu, August 28, 2008 @ 10:36AM
A couple links to pass on today. The first is from Deadspin regarding Patriotism gone overbaord at Yankee Stadium. A man claims he was ejected from the stadium after not standing still in the seventh inning during the singing of "God Bless America." The Yankees have a "no excesive movement policy" and this guy - an admitted Red Sox fan - got up to use the bathroom. So he claims. He was escorted out of the stadium by two New York's finest. I'm not entirely sure I believe the guy's story - I'm sure he wasn't totally innocent - but there I bet there is some validity to his claims. ... Then there's the Bo Pelini's press conference. Pelini is the new head coach at Nebreaska - replacing craptacular Bill Callahan. Pelini showed up to his weekley presser wearing a blue - not red - shirt. He was questioned about it by reporters.
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Now that's poetry
Wed, August 20, 2008 @ 9:21AM
I have this old hardback book that's about a hundred years old now, Robert Service's "Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses." For years, I have carried it with me on many fishing trips and itás a great deer-camp read. When it's painfully hot, reading "The Cremation of Sam Magee" either makes you feel cold inside, or resigns you to the fact that the heat is much better than the Yukon chill that froze the bones of Sam Magee. My first exposure to Service was as a kid at the soil and water conservation camp in Cedar Lakes. One of the adult leaders could recite it from memory and he did by the campfire every year. Service wasn't an adventurer like Jack London, although he wanted to be. He left his job as a bank teller in Scotland to move to Canada seeking some excitement. He wound up working as a bank teller in Canada, but his poems made him a fortune.
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Site now offers social networking connection
Thu, August 28, 2008 @ 12:54PM
An explosive growth has occurred in the past few years in the use of social networking sites on the Web. Social networking sites are simply sites where people that know each other, or have similar interest, can gather and share ideas and other things. The two giants, Facebook and MySpace, have more members than most countries have people. Most social networking sites operate is the same basic way. You set up a page and then allow your “friends” to see it. You approve “friendships” before they are added to your page. Once added, they can view photos that you post, leave comments on your “wall” and view your current status. Once viewed as strictly an online tool for those under 25, social networking sites have become a great way for people of all ages to stay connected.
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Football here again
Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 10:17AM
High School football season begins in West Virginia Friday night and The News and Sentinel has added a new feature to our Web site to help in covering the games. Blurbs about the ongoing games will be posted on our Web site at halftimes and will be updated at the end of the game. The halftime highlight, we hope, will prove useful and valuable to our readers. Drop me or sports editor Dave Poe a line about your thoughts on the halftime highlights.
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