October 2009

 
 
  • Oct 31 p Tonight's Trick or Treat in Clayberry. Be careful on the roads tonight. Those yard apes will be everywhere.
  • Oct 31 p  For scanner listeners, tonight is the primo night for audio pleasure.
  • Oct 30 p In the last edition of the Communicator came a Did You Know on the longest word that can be typed from the first line on the puter keyboard. That word: typewriter.
  • Oct 30 p What's the longest word that can be typed using only the second line of the keyboard, that's the line beginning with A and ending with ".  Email you answers. I think the longest word has 6 letters (in the plural form).
  • Oct. 30 a Tonight the Panthers play at Schoonover Bradley Field. Last home game of the season. Come out support the ones trying hard, the players. For those far away, wyap.com will be internet broadcasting the event. Those closer to home, try 101.7 FM
  • Oct. 30 a Clay Middle will be in the Conference Championship over in Roane County beginning at 1pm on Saturday.  Saturday night while most are out trick or treating,  the Pee Wee A team will be playing in the Super Bowl at Schoonover Bradley Field. WYAP will be broadcasting both of those games too.
  • Oct. 30 a Let me tell ya a story
  • Oct. 30 a 30 something Steve Goodwin is a heck of a nice guy. Plays in a band, works hard, family and all the trimmings too.  Awhile back he got mixed up in some Murder Mountain metal recycling that wasn't suppose to be recycled. Then there were some domestic issues.
  • Oct. 30 a  During his probation time, the Judge said very plainly, no drugs. None
  • Oct. 30 a  Tuesday Steve thought his probation time was over. At the Courthouse he found out it wasn't and had to wee wee in a bottle. Others are adding that Goodwin tried faking the test with a clean sample bottled in his pocket.
  • Oct. 30 a That was Wed. Thursday, Mr Goodwin was sentenced to 60 days in the slammer plus 11 months of probation afterwards.
  • Oct. 30 a Someone needs to provide Steve with a calendar. As Maxwell Smart use to say, missed it by that much!
  • Oct. 30 a  Obama de Bama just back peddled on another transparency promise when he blocked release of those detainee abuse photos already circulating around the web. Sadly, shades of Dubbya.
  • Oct. 30 a As many as 5.7 million Americans were infected with the H1N1 virus between April and late July. About 6 percent of people who were hospitalized with the virus died. Here's more on the unproved vaccine coming much too late.
  • Oct. 30 a By now, the US should have had 120 million doses, according to predictions in July. This estimate was cut to 45 million when it emerged in August that the vaccine virus was growing at half the usual rate. Now even some of those doses have not arrived.
  • Oct. 30 a For those interested, the bathroom is coming together with new drywall, paint, tub, and sink all back in working order. Can clean up now and dump but still no couch! Life is tough. Even the Irene the Basset is beside herself without a soft place to snooze.
  • Oct. 29 a Something to keep you busy for a while
  • Oct. 29 a So you think the USA is the place for prosperity, wealth, and freedoms. Well... we ain't at the top by any means.
  • Oct. 29 a A possible cure for cancer. Looks promising.
  • Oct. 29 a Legalizing pot. it's coming sooner than you may think.
  • Oct. 29 a Deadline for submitting stuff for the next Communicator is Friday at 6pm. Email your info ASAP.   Translation, the paper coming out late again.
  • Oct. 29 a We're hoping to include a bunch of pics from the upcoming CMS Conference Championship and the Saturday night Pee Wee Super Bowl. If you take some good pictures during either, please email over. Thanks
  • Oct. 28 a We'll explain the post slow down in a minute
  • Oct. 28 a County Commission meets this morning at 10 am. On the agenda is trying to find volunteers to fill empty slots on the Business Development Authority and Housing Authorities. How about one of you? Not on the agenda is any mention of the lawsuit brought by the Top Badge  6 weeks back.
  • Oct. 28 a are you sitting there in your boxers getting a good dig? How about some interesting reading on the history of men's underwear.
  • Oct. 28 a Everybody is asking but we don't know if the escapees from Mt Olive were caught.
  • Oct. 28 a  Besides being without a couch for over  a week , on the home front, we're remodeling the bathroom. No naps and then days without  those mandatory indoor facilities. Drywall dust everywhere and where stuff normally is, it ain't. This getting ready for winter is getting tougher.
  • Oct. 28 a  Instead of updating this site, evening hours have been spent getting the bathroom done. Something's are very important and a crapper is one of em. Sorry for the slowness.
  • Oct. 28 a If you use HP-94 ink cartridges in your printer, Delta Office Center at Two Run has a deal. $10 a cartridge.
  • Oct. 28 a Does anybody need a brand new,  drain on the left, white metal bath tub? Brand new, still in a box and available for $75. Cost $109 at Lowes last Saturday.  Call 304 587-7586
  • Oct. 26 a Lots of scanner excitement this morning as local Badges were alerted to two bad guys escaping from Mt Olive around 2 am. By 10 am about every on duty officer was working the Lizemores end of the county in search of a dark colored Chevy product.
  • Oct. 26 a  Eyeballs were peeled going up every side road and hollow. The perimeter at Lizemores Elem was checked as a precaution.
  • Oct. 26 a  Sounded like prison officials were going back and checking the area closer to the facility. As of 11:30 am, nothing found in Clayberry.
  • Oct. 26 a Why wo much effort in Clayberry when the two thugs were from other counties? A guy working on a cable system spotted a vehicle matching the description.
  • Oct. 25 p  We had pluses and not so goods during the last seven days of Life in Clayberry...
  • Oct. 25 p Obama De Bama decided that the swine flu is serious stuff and declared an emergency. everybody is being told how to avoid the stuff. Drug companies are pushing their message of getting vaccinated with untested vaccines.
  • Oct. 25 p Growing up there was Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Steamboat Bill on TV-3, Uncle Willie and our very own Soupy Sales.  Soupy was different from all the rest. Some of his skits were a bit of color leaving parents yelling "TURN THAT OFF RIGHT NOW!" Even in black and white and with a one camera set up, he was hilarious. Don't go looking for reruns on You Tube. Soupy Sale Shows were done live and not taped.
  • Oct. 25 p This week we lost West Virginia's very own Soupy Sales and the creative mind behind White Fang, Black Tooth and all his TV characters.
  • Oct. 25 p We know how things are done in Clayberry. How preferential treatment is offered some and denied, off the table for no names. This week a young lad escaped possible jail time when court subpoenas somehow, someway, well, they weren't  served on the parties.
  • Oct. 25 p When the side stepping was made public on this site, our stomping mad Top Badge fired out memos telling subordinates to mend their ways. Change in Clayberry? DOn't hold your breath.
  • Oct. 25 p Friday morning the reconstituted Housing Authority held their first meeting of  2009. The newbees elected officers and proclaimed Encore Management was doing a good job. They even voted to extended Encore for another 12 months of contracted services.
  • Oct. 25 p It takes a while for newcomers to awaken and see the truth. We think that will be the case once again for the Housing Authority as history repeats itself over and over and...
  • Oct. 25 p On the plus side, the Clay Middle School Mustangs completed  a perfect football season and are heading to the Conference Championship.
  • Oct. 25 p Not so with the Clay High Panthers who are one game away from a "pefect" season. Their season is all in the losing column. We think the state record for losing is 28 in a row. CCHS Coaches are close to getting in the record book.
  • Oct. 25 p After 19 years of serving the county at Clay Auto Parts, Peter Triplett left the building. Heading over to the Courthouse to be Pete the Puter Guru.
  • Oct. 25 p  And the absolute biggy of the week was the PeeWee Football team which played their butts off Saturday where they went into at least 10 overtimes and four + hours  before coming out victorious with a Hail Mary pass. Under the lights, parents and players went ape shirt crazy and rightly so.     Pee Wee Super Bowl is coming and we're in it!
  • Oct. 25 p Sunday brought warm dry weather with  intent skies so blue you had to squint. With the sunshine came the bold bright colors of  Fall. It was gorgious. If you're  a leaf peeper and planning a drive thru, now's the time!
  • Oct. 25 p Seven days ago the Mel Gibson look alike lost his couch to the upholstery guy. It's going to be at least another week before curling up in a blanket and snoozing a 30 minute lunch time nap comes back. Indoor privy, frig, hot water, Q-tips, are all important.  A good napper couch is also on that list.
  • Oct. 24 p  From the email bag:  A familys home burned to the ground . Now 4 kids and a mother are in need of clothing. These kids go to clay middle and clay high school.  There are 3 girls and one boy.Lets help these kids. If you can help please call 587-4165
  • Oct. 24 p  While we prepare a weekend wrap up, here's a new blogspot on the BC&G Co Op.Nice pics.
  • Oct. 24 p Coughing ? Swine Flu? The official Clay Health Dept press release is now posted over on the ADVISORY page.
  • Oct. 24 p Calhoun County's release has much info.
  • Oct. 24 p  Here's the official Ole Faithful in Yellowstone web cam for those really bored.
  • OCt 24 p  If you're really sick of football, here's the official pendulum web cam in the UK showing the earth's rotation.
  • Oct. 24 p  So far, the nasty puter hacker from NY has been away from this site for two days. Either he is busy attacking other sites or he's unable to get in. Good!   If you find some evil script, please email.
  • Oct. 23 p  Joyce Ann White, 76,  see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 23 p  Clay's PeeWee Football team is in the playoffs Saturday. See EVENTS page
  • Oct. 23 p  CLay Middle School finished a perfect season Thursday with a big win over Roane County. Conference Championship comes next Sat in Spencer. Go Mustangs
  • Oct. 23 p Don't forget to check out all the good things to do this weekend over on the EVENTS page.
  • Oct. 23 p This morning the newly reformed Clay County Housing Authority convened. With only three present, new officers will be: Mike Evans-Prez; Greg Legg-Vice Prez, and Linda Rhodes-Sec/Treas
  • Oct. 23 p After agreeing that Encore Management is doing  a heck of a good job, the group OK'd another 12 month contract with Encore.
  • Oct. 23 p   Earlier this week David Linkinoggor walked away from charges after the Sheriff's office failed to serve subpoenas to the participants. The next day a memo was issued telling Deputies to make sure subpoenas are executed in a timely manner. Sounded like the Top Badge was upset. Not sure if he was upset over the failed service or that the public found out.
  • Oct. 23 p Classes were held at HE White Elem school today. That's the first Friday in three weeks due to water outages, broken lines. For those asking, no Boil Water Orders were issued that we know of.. certainly no notice came to this site.
  • Oct. 23 p  It wasn't but just a couple years ago that lots of $$$ was paid out for additional parking at Clay High. Last Summer $$$ were expended for additional parking space in the front of the school.
  • Oct. 23 p Taking precious parking area, construction of a new grant funded, two story, 3000 square foot building, got underway this week. No mention of the project has been brought up during recent School Board meetings. Also, no mention that the place will NOT have rest rooms nor for that matter, water supplied indoors.
  • Oct. 23 p What has been mentioned is a name for the place. With a smirk and referencing the dismal performance of the CCHS Football Staff, some are calling the place: The Soccer Locker.
  • Oct. 23 p  Why? We don't have a soccer program.... a direction we might be more successful with.
  • Oct. 23 p  That ace cub reporter had one heck of a time last night after eating two sauerkraut laced reuben sandwiches around 10pm. Great tasting sandwiches but as the minutes passed by, the fermenting kraut seemed to expand 10 fold.
  • Oct. 23 p By 2am with a belly taunt as a balloon, no Rolaids to be found, the lights all turned off, the Mel Gibson look alike attempted to sit down for a few minutes.
  • Oct. 23 p One problem. With the upholsterer guy in possession of the couch, NO %%$$!!! Couch!
  • Oct. 23 p To the floor he did go.
  • Oct. 23 p Finishing up day five without a couch. Life is rough.
  • Oct. 22 a  Walter Ray Adkins, 60, of Procious, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 22 a There's a lot of big issues in the world today, wars, famine, global warming and such. Add one more.
  • Oct. 22 a The ace cub reporter has spent much of his down time on an old tired, torn couch. Often seen with a laptop, TV remote, cell phone and wireless home phone, his son grew up on that ever so worn out couch of comfort. Irene the basset hound spent 9 years curled up on one end spending the evening hours snoozing.
  • Oct. 22 a After getting his hiney chewed left and right, after nasty tele call after call, after invitations of going out back for something more than an ice cream social... there was always the couch. The place of comfort. The place to be counted on for a few minutes of meditation. Probably designed by some chinese person somewhere, they sure knew how to build the perfect couch for napping a decade ago.
  • Oct. 22 a Monday evening the upholsterer guy and took the almost sacred couch. He said it would take a couple weeks to reconstruct the thing into something a little more presentable.
  • Oct. 22 a We're on day three without the napper. There are major issues facing each of us, but for the Mel Gibson look alike, it's going to be tough for the next 10 days. Rough!
  • Oct. 21 Late p  Clay Middle School plays Thursday evening at Schoonover Bradley Field. Without a loss, should be a good football game. For those unable to attend,  TG and Josh will be providing play by play on 101.7 FM Tune in around 5:30pm
  • Oct. 21 p  The Board of Health meets Thursday at 6pm. On their agenda is that $20,000 + Las Vegas style scrolling marquee style sign for the front of their building.
  • Oct. 21 p Last edition of Clay County's newspaper, The Communicator, came David Linkinoggor's mug shot from Central Regional Jail. Few want in jail nor their pics in our Magistrate Report.
  • Oct. 21 p Yesterday, all those charges against young Linkinoggor were dismissed. From the Court document: The Clay County Magistrate Court issued a subpoena for the victim to the Clay County Sheriff's office on Oct. 9th and the Sheriff's office subsequently failed to serve said subpoena on the victim.
  • Oct. 21 p  The young lad will never be ever to clear his name and those issues will hang on for years.   How's that for an interesting slant clickers?
  • Oct. 21 p Yelp our Top Badge failed
  • Oct. 21 p While Lizemores was working a car wreck scene Sept 16th, Christopher L Daniels managed to get into a punching, kicking fight with the volunteer responders, Bobby Mullins and Michael Cliver.
  • Oct. 21 p After pleading guilty, Mr Daniels was sentenced to 365 days in the slammer (all but 45 days were suspended); fined $500; eight months probation, and court costs.
  • Oct. 21 p Ouch!!  Ought not do that.
  • Oct. 21 p  Mr Pipe Dream, Bill Whitteker with Panseco was given a 15 day extension to purchase the old Fas Chek building on Main Street.  That extension ended last Thursday, Oct. 15. True he didn't scam us out of  a dime but what dirty rotten shame such delirious promises can be passed around so easily in a county where even 5 new jobs would have been great.
  • Oct. 21 late p  We're now playing games with the hacker guy in NY. We've inserted a mirror string that is suppose to send those nasty bugs right back to him. Hope it's working.
  • Oct. 21 p If your virus detects something. please let us know.
  • Oct. 20 p  Larry Joe Brown, 61, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 20 p Delegate Dave Walker's Legislative Update column now posted on the ADVISORY page
  • Oct. 20 p Tony Samples got it all started two months ago when he called for the resignation of CCHS Football Coach Frank Klemans. The Hooters liability incident hasn't helped much with comments on getting rid of the entire staff.
  • Oct. 20 p  Reggie Brogan's Chatter (over on the ADVISORY page) is one more log for the fire.
  • Oct. 20 p Thursday evening at 6pm the Clay County Bd of Health meets in their Main St Clay digs
  • Oct. 20 p  The Housing Authority hasn't met in moths. They really haven't been active since their last Chairwoman signed into a year long contract without a Board vote and after the Board decided just the opposite. At issue was the less than forthcoming Encore Management Co which operates the two public housing complexes in Clayberry and does so without providing the owners of the apartment buildings, Clay Housing Authority,  with ANY financial documents.
  • Oct. 20 p  With Chair Connie Lupardus, boardsters Andy Waddell, Lisa Heidebrecht, and RT Sizemore resigned, the new members of the CCHA will have a long learning curve before they once again realize the shortcomings of Encore Management Co
  • Oct. 20 p The CCHA meets this Friday at 10 am in the Courthouse.
  • Oct. 20 p  Monday and today started out frosty and cold followed by beautiful sunshine and temps well into the 60s. Fall at its best and a perfect time to come visit Clayberry.
  • Oct. 19 Late p After another cleansing, we think the site is without bugs.
  • Oct. 19 p The problem appears to be a seeded string inserted each time this portal is updated via the software, cuteFTP.  Our changes include updating this site from the office puter only . A static IP address from there may reduce future attacks from outsiders in New York.
  • Oct. 19 p Tonight's Sch Bd meeting came and went without any official discussion of the CCHS Coaching Staff Hooters incident. The subject did come up via Gene King. Here's how
  • Oct. 19 p After a vote to pay for an FBLA field trip, Boardster Jim Dawson told King: If you make the motion, you have to go on the trip. Always the quick one, O Gene King responded: I'll go if it includes a trip to Hooters afterwards and we're dressed in blue and gold (school  coaching outfits).
  • Oct. 19 p Others in the room laughed. Fellow Boardsters didn't.
  • Oct. 19p The school system doesn't like it when anything notorious becomes public.
  • Oct. 19 p Don't know what we're talking about? Pick up the latest copy of The Communicator, the Somber Super did.
  • Oct. 19 p Boardster King also brought up something about CCHS's Flag Corp and parents overriding the sponsors wishes. Something about a student not being at practices and still getting to perform. Any details anybody? let us know.
  • Oct. 19 p Back on Hooters for a second... lucious thighs, juicy white firm breasts.... losing my chain of thought.... Good chicken too!
  • Oct. 19 p After the Board meeting, King made public that changes have been made at CCHS to prevent such side trips after a ballgame. He said that the new policy mandates that two coaches SHALL ride home on the bus after each game.
  • Oct. 19p Good!
  • Oct. 18 late p  No weekend wrap up for now
  • Oct. 18 p Back on Aug 27th this site was hacked sending crap all over over the place. Increased security was put in place.
  • Oct. 18 p This weekend we got a couple emails alerting us of some more bad stuff found on this site.  Our web host was informed and a cleansing was done at midnight Sunday night
  • Oct. 18p  Interesting stuff, with the logs provided, we can see the hacker came from Hicksville NY, "optimum" online is the name.
  • Oct. 18 p If all the dirty rotten hackers would put their talents together, think of all the cures that would probably be found.
  • Oct. 18 p For now, no new updates until this problem is corrected.
  • Oct. 18 p Communicator made it out the door Friday afternoon. Darn good one and well worth the 70 cent price tag. Heck we even saw the Somber Super picking one up Friday evening.
  • Oct. 17 late p Etta V. Ramsey, 64, of Duck, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 16 a Not sure where summer or fall went but snow is in the forecast for this weekend. Those of us still clinging to short pants and visions of warm weather for a another few weeks, those hopes are dashed! Time to start stacking firewood.
  • Oct. 16 a A couple weeks back the County Commission considered consolidating all the water providers into one huge consolidated public service district. All the PSD reps were against such a venture. They never mentioned all the problems of the past and how some Board members tried to resign their posts two Falls ago.
  • Oct. 16 a For the second Friday in a row, H E White Elem. is closed due to a water outage.
  • Oct. 16 a The JG Bradley Campground Pig Roast slated for Sat Oct. 17th has been rescheduled for Oct. 24th. To darn cold they say.
  • Oct. 16 a Communicator will be on the news stands this afternoon around 3pm. Good stuff like CCHS paid coaches at a Hooters grace our award winning independent newspapers.
  • Oct. 16 a Get em while they're hot
  • Oct. 16 a The school system seems to be responding to calls of more info needed on the swine flu outbreak. On their web site is a new page showing "flu like symptom" reports broke down by day and by school. Now if they'll just keep it current.
  • Oct. 16 a That snow in the forecast, actually weather casters are saying a slight chance of snow showers . But, that's enough to send Clayberry in a frenzy and to the grocery store to buy five loaves of bread and two gallons of milk.
  • Oct. 16 a No two ways about it, we're nuts!
  • Oct. 14 late p The Murphy lad, the one that had the Badges in a high speed chase last night, he's back out on the streets.
  • Oct. 14 p Clay Middle School's Homecoming Football game is Thursday at 5:30p. 101.7 Fm will be providing play by play. On t he web too. Head over to wyap.com for details on how to listen online. Middle School F Ball, another first for community radio!
  • Oct. 14 p  One heck of a County Commission meeting this morning.  A tear jerker for one and down right dumb redundancy for others. Our front page story will cost you 70 cents friday afternoon around 3pm.
  • Oct. 14 Two weeks ago a few clickers emailed that they were getting some kind of bug alert on this site. If you're still getting that alert from your frontiernet free anti virus, let us know. Thanks.
  • Oct. 14 p What email address are you using to reach this site or the Communicator? Are you still using the old hotmail account? Aught not, we've stopped checking that one. To reach us, communicator@frontiernet.net   Thanks
  • Oct. 14 p This is our night to type the dark away. No updates until we get the Communicator to bed in the morning.
  • Oct. 14 a Great scanner listening last night  as Green Shirt Bailey went after a silver jeep up, down and left/right. the high speed chase action began around 9:15p with Bailey heading up Maysel Road, "I'm right behind him!!" ... "The speed picked up" ... "I smelled marijuana on him during a traffic stop" ... "Going out toward the park"..
  • Oct. 14 a Then there was silence as the vehicle made a quick left right or in some other way skid addled. Quiet 5 minutes... then 5 more.. then more...  then with ear muscles straining.... Bailey: Got two in custody.
  • Oct. 14 a  One of the Black Shirts assisted. Around 10pm: Show me 10-8 from this high speed pursuit .... and catch.
  • Oct. 14 a One asked which Magistrate was on duty, dispatch came back with Boggs and take em on to jail.
  • Oct. 14 a Glad the Badges were on duty.
  • Oct. 13 p We've got a couple emailers telling us that their software is still detecting a bug on this site. We can't find such an animal but are once again checking with the host provider.
  • Oct. 13 p Deadline for this Friday's Communicator is Wed at 5pm. Email your stuff over ASAP for inclusion.
  • Oct. 13 p In a photo op for elected little shots, Smokin Joe Manchin presented Queen Shoals PSD with the $$$ needed to update their system and purchase wa wa from West Virginia Water Co. The amount $1.8m.
  • Oct. 13 p There was a time when county leaders vehemently worked to keep WV Water out of the county. Those days are gone. As a matter of fact, back when we were working against the big supplier, they were already serving Clayberry in the Southwestern corner of Queen Shoals up to Harts Run.
  • Oct. 13 p  Members of Congress have stripped a provision requiring 300 more miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border from a Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill
  • Oct. 13 p How much is $23,000,000,000? For one thing, it's enough to send 460,000 full paying students to Harvard University for one year, or 115,000 for four years. More money heading to Bank Management, our money.
  • Oct. 12 a  James Monroe Tanner, 86, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 12 a  Beverly A. Hudson, 66, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 12 a  So the Doctor says to eat more fiber. You need the stuff for long health.
  • Oct. 12 a Over at the Sams Club was this big box of Fiber One bars sure to increase your health and make you young and pretty once again. Even with fake sugar and chocolate and filled with pine cones and straw, the things tasted pretty darn good. Ate one followed by another and another.
  • Oct. 12 a  The things should be called Fart One bars. Oh man!! Oh Man ! Couldn't stop the wind once it started. Even spreading the cheeks with hand in both back pockets to reduce the sonic blasts didn't help. In the store. In the tub. On the couch. With every step, out of control breaking wind. Forget about bending over!!
  • Oct. 12 a   Sometimes MD's don't tell you the whole story on high fiber intake.
  • Oct. 12 a  Wed is the next County Commission meeting. Thinking about eating five of those Fiber One bars before attending!
  • Oct. 11 p Jerry Hubbard says he wants news page updates more often. We're treading as fast as we can!
  • Oct. 11 p How on earth did Obama De Bama win a Nobel? He had been on the job less than 2 weeks when the applications were due. How did you ask?  The world was so sick and tired of Dubbya, the Nobel was awarded to guy as a starting prize.
  • Oct. 11 p Michael Moore takes more than a few swipes at President Ronald Reagan, essentially asserting that under Reagan's watch, the rich got richer at the expense of everyone else. True or false. Answer: TRUE.
  • Oct. 11 p Government spending accounts for 40 percent of gross domestic product.  ANSWER: TRUE.
  • Oct. 11 p From Senator Jay: "Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001, while premiums for consumers have doubled." TRUTH spoken there too.
  • Oct. 11 p On the second part of Jay's comment,"premiums for consumers have doubled",  here's the close up.
  • Oct. 11 p Michael Moore contends the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan were the turning point toward widening the gap between the rich and everyone else. Once Reagan was elected, Moore said, the government was run like a business, and the president's tough stance on unions and his theory of "trickle-down" economics ended up hurting working Americans. Yep, the guy was a load without doubt.
  • Oct. 11 p   After years of stolen items turning up on Murder Mountain and no arrests, there were. Tommy Young Sr and Jr were both indicted on Federal felony charges. The went before Fed Magistrate Stanley Friday morning. They are in deep doo doo.
  • Oct. 11 p Friday night fans came to Schoonover Bradley Field to watch the Homecoming activities. Before and after the successful Homecoming, Panther Football Coaches managed to lose another game. True it was a rainy, nasty evening and Roane County is a good team.... BUT, we haven't had a win since 2007. Also true, the players (and fans, boosters) deserve better. With every game a loss, how can it get any worse? Email responses please.
  • Oct. 11 p  Sunday afternoon we had bright sunshine and blue skies. Those conditions brought leaf peepers to Clayberry lookin' at the colors and enjoying the crisp clean air. No Fall Festivals, no Fall tourism events of any kind. Lost opportunities of new dollars.
  • Oct. 9 p This morning at 10 am, Judge Stanley had Tommy Sr and Jr. in front of the Federal Court for arraignment. For those following online, case # 2:09-CR-223
  • Oct. 9 p  We don't think or hear much about local politicians except during the lead up to an election.
  • Oct. 9 p Some actually do stuff in-between elections. Take Senator Randy White for instance
  • Oct. 9 p Clayonians out Harrison way (Widen Road)were mad as H over the main road slipping so bad , the school had to take a longer route. Senator White intervened Aug 26th.
  • Oct. 9 p In a letter dated Sept 29th, from the State Road folks, Marvin Murphy  assured White that Bilco Construction was awarded the hurry up contract and work would be completed ASAP.
  • Oct. 9 a H E White Elem is closed today due to a wa wa leak. Kids are happy, parents ain't.
  • Oct. 9 a  Around the state, media is providing info on Swine Flu. Student deathes have been reported in other counties. It's a scary time
  • Oct. 9 a Locally, we have confirmed cases according to local Health Czar Jay Carper. Locally, on the street, word comes of cases in the local school system.
  • Oct. 9 a The biggest worry is with our kids in the school school. The administration has provided some very broadly written info in a link from their web site.
  • Oct. 9 a As far as what to do inside the school, where to sit an ailing kid, what about during bus rides,  recess, lunch, breakfast times and in the classroom isolation, nothing.
  • Oct. 9 a  There are problems with sanitizing hands and keeping those dispensers full.
  • Oct. 9 a Around the nation drunks realize those sanitizes are about 65% alcohol and are draining the thangs for internal consumption.
  • Oct. 9 a Tonight's homecoming for Clay High. Game starts at 7:30. For those unable to support the Panthers in person, 101.7FM will be sportscasting the event including the half-time activities.
  • Oct. 9 a Want ta dance? Live music at Big Otter Community Center as well as Braxton County Jamboree, both tonight at 7pm
  • Oct. 9 a  The last race of the season is Sat at Obrion Oval Raceway. Lots of yard sales this weekend too.
  • Oct. 8 a For all us ole pot heads, some refreshing news: Illicit pot production in the United States has been increasing steadily for decades. But recent changes in state laws that allow the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes are giving U.S. growers a competitive advantage, challenging the traditional>
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  • Oct. 8 a Turning into a nation of french fry makers:  industrial share of gross domestic product has fallen from 20 percent in 1980 to 11.5 percent in 2008...In terms of global market share of manufactured exports, the US share declined from 19 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2007.. Best spin on loss of world dominance.
  • Oct. 8 a "People are no longer defaulting simply because of a change in the payment structure of their loan. They are defaulting because of lost jobs or reduced hours or pay."
  • Oct. 8 a The future of this county is in tourism. Anybody that thinks different, put your head back in the sand. For Clayberry, the center of that tourism draw will be the BC&G RR Co Op and campground. The other four pulls are, Lake Sampson, Elk River, Obrion Dirt Track, and WYAP's Saturday music shows.
  • Oct. 8 a CAEZ Director Connie Lupardus has been the front person in getting grants and direction for the railroad group. Tuesday evening BC&G's elder statesman Roger Nutter addressed the CAEZ Bd of Directors over: the CAEZ doing little with the BC&G the past several months; even with grant dollars in hand, improvements are stalled;  there is little communications between the BC&G and the CAEZ Director. Nutter wanted answers. He got few other than, everything takes a lot of time.
  • Oct. 8 a What Nutter did was expose the rift between the two outfits. For instance
  • Oct. 8  a During the before the Board meeting, Economic Development Committee gathering, the Director made no mention of a rift;  there wasn't any hint of everything stalled; and the CAEZ  Director had backed away from efforts to get a septic system installed at the campground.
  • Oct. 8 a  None of that was mentioned during the earlier meeting, 4pm Tuesday. As a matter of fact, everything sounded just humpy dory.
  • Oct. 8 a When Nutter spoke during the 6pm Board meeting, the rift came alive as Director Connie Lupardus told the public that she had backed away from ALL negotiations for the much needed campground upgrades. It sounded like her toes had been stepped on. Roger has big feets.
  • Oct. 8 a That rift... more like the Grand Canyon
  • Oct. 8 a Remember that on and off again partnership between the BDA, CAEZ, and CCC. The one where a tiny oversight committee would hire and manage the efforts of a new to be hired Econ Development Director for the county? The same partnership that the CAEZ voted to walk away from four months back.... the same one the BDA voted to get along with without the CAEZ....              It's back on again.
  • Oct. 8 a During Tuesday's Board meeting, a new vote (unanimous vote) allows the CAEZ Director to pursue the trio relationship minus any financial input by the CAEZ.
  • Oct. 7 p  After producing a solid 20 pages of news in the Communicator and a good 8 hours of seepy time, we're back in action.
  • Oct. 7 p  Last night Town Council met. Council person Jerry Stover wanted to give Hawkie Keener a $1 per hour raise. He couldn't even get a second on the motion.  Keener is nearing retirement time and Stover thought a little more in wages would greatly help with retirement benefits. So much for support for a guy that has worked sweeping streets and weed whacking the town for nearly his entire adult life. Put em out to pasture to starve!
  • Oct. 7 p During the CAEZ meeting, word came that the group has $$$ to purchase home building lots in Clayberry and are looking to buy house sites if there is utility service nearby. Interested in selling. Call the CAEZ office ASAP
  • Oct. 7 p Wind's blowing outside. Highs predicted to only be in the 50s.  Good by short pants for another year.
  • Oct. 7 a Timothy Ray Roberts, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 7 a  That bank robber that was caught a couple days ago. Yelp, had a Clay County connection. Attended Clayberry schools.
  • Oct. 7 a Update coming. Communicator made it to the news stands Tuesday around 3pm. Get em while they're hot!
  • Oct. 6 a  William P. Dennis, 64, of Clay, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 6 a Communicator comes out around 3pm today. front page provides detailed coverage of the Murder Mountain indictments.
  • Oct. 6 a Bank Robbery Update from TV-3 (WSAZ) -- After reviewing surveillance video, it didn't take deputies long to catch up with a suspected bank robber, because he's been in trouble with the law before. Investigators say they knew Jacob McCoy Samples from a past investigation and went to his house in Cross Lanes to arrest him. When they arrived at his home, Samples confessed to robbing the Poca Valley Bank in Clendenin. According to the criminal complaint, Samples says he did place something over his face to conceal his identity. He told deputies he didn't know how much money he got away with because he had been on the run all day. Deputies were able to recover some of the cash at Samples' home.

  •      Our records show Samples was arrested in 2006 and charged with robbing the Kroger in Elkview. Samples and two other men allegedly jumped the counter at the store and stole Sudafed to make meth. Police also said Samples hurt a store employee during that robbery. Samples is charged with bank robbery and being held on $100,000 cash bond. The charge carries a penalty of 10 to 25 years.
  • Oct. 5 p  Michael (Mike) L. Dawson, 53, of Clay, see OBITUARY page
  • Oct. 5 a  (WSAZ) -- Police are responding to a bank robbery that happened Monday morning at a bank in northern Kanawha County. The call went out at about 9:38 a.m. for the Poca Valley Bank on Spencer Road. "Preliminary information at this time is that the suspect is a white male, small shorter build, wearing long pants and hooded sweatshirt, black mask and was armed with a handgun," said Lt. Bryan Stover with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department in a news release.
  • Oct. 5  Our local Badges were down in Clendenin assisting when a call came in of a suicide on O'Brion Rd. Medical Examiner was on his way at 11:54am
  • Oct. 5 a Oh by the way, the school system updated their web site this morning indicating the Board meeting is tonight at the annex building on Gump St.
  • Oct. 5 a About time too!
  • Oct. 5 a We're in shut down mode until we get the Communicator all typed up.
  • Oct. 4 p Senator Jay keeps talking about improving DSL service here in the outback. Something needs to be done. Saturday night, 10:30pm, the download speed was oozing along 319. The upload was even worse , at 80. Wouldn't you think the middle of the night when most people are in bed would allow for faster speeds? Wrong O! Sunday morning, 12:30am, the upload speed was a magnificant 48. Carrier pigeons would have been faster!
  • Oct. 4 p it was an interesting week in the land of little
  • Oct. 4 After five members of the BDA met. By the way, that's enough for a quorum according to their bylaws. During the gathering, Chair King told her buddies that Jim Knotts had officially resigned from his economic development perch. She also said they need to look at the controversial by laws and revise them into something a little more legit.
  • Oct. 4 For the second month in a row one bald head guy asked the BDA to fund colorful fall winter brochures. The idea was to have something to hand out to cool weather visitors and something for those traveling from our Nation of Clay shores to hand out. Info like: where's the ATM machines; where's the laundromat; a place to eat, to camp, what's going on during the "off" months. Stuff like that.
  • Oct. 4 p  Keep in mind the brochure project required no leg work, foot work, or even thinking, for our appointed folks. The ones charged with growing our economy voted unanimously, Nope.
  • Oct. 4 p Thursday came and went without Panserco CEO Bill Whitteker making an appearance. There was no sign on the door, No notice provided anybody. Thursday, Oct. 1st, was the promised date for opening a new business center and hiring 260 workers.
  • Oct. 4 p   Some are calling the place Scamersco and the guy a scam artist. That's not true. He hasn't received one penny from anybody. We can at least call him less than business like and maybe a down right fibber.
  • Oct. 4 p According to Court documents, it was the FBI and Green Shirts that busted the head of the Murder Mountain clan Tommy Young Sr and oldest son, Jr. After years of finding tons of stolen goods on and around the ridge top retreat, the Feds are in the picture now.
  • Oct. 4 p  Feds do stuff differently than local authorities. The Feds usually have their ducks in a row before they come a knocking.
  • Oct. 4 p The Panthers lost another football game when they took on Independence.
  • Oct. 4 p Sierra Carver earned one big AT A GIRL when she made her 1000th kill during volleyball action.
  • Oct. 4 p The weekend Clayberry was covered in bright sunshine and warm temps. Some of our trees are just beginning their annual color fest. Some of us tried wearing short pants for just a few more days. Darn cold knees indeed.
  • Oct. 4 p Our School Board is suppose to met the first and third Monday of each month. On the Bd office front door (5pm Sunday) was the agenda left over from Sept 21st. That's interesting. A meeting agenda that was never posted on their web site. AS a matter of fact, the school system web site, as of Oct. 4th, 6 th, stills calls for a Sept 8 Board meeting.
  • Oct. 4 p With Bd meetings held at various schools during the year, who knows where tomorrow's meeting will be held. I know... go to their high tech, up to the minute web portal! Right?
  • Oct. 4 p Wrong. The meetings from 2008 are still posted there!
  • Oct. 4 p The Communicator comes out Tuesday afternoon. Should be  a doozy with all the Murder Mountain details.
  • Oct. 4 p See ADVISORY page for Domestic Violence Vigil Monday evening
  • Oct. 4 p With the new month here, should be a big week for public meetings. Stuff like..
  • Oct. 4 p  CAEZ meets Tuesday afternoon at 4pm and then the full Board at 6pm. Watch for Darryl and Darryl to continue their effort to get the CAEZ involved in the BDA partnership for a full time hire. Angle? Talk to each of the local reps and twist their arms a little.
  • Oct. 4 p Town Council also meets on Tuesday, 5pm. They do post an agenda but it's so out of kilter with (out)  information, no wonder Council knows nothing about what's going on!
  • Oct. 2 p  3:15   We talked to Tommy Young Sr a day before the Big Apple. He said all those local charges of thievery were BS.
  • Oct. 2 p  Tommy Young Sr and Tommy Young Jr. were indicted today at the Federal building in Charleston. We think the Feds have a different idea of what BS is.
  • Oct. 2 p From TV-8's web portal: A Clay County man and his son have been accused of acquiring and selling thousands of dollars worth of stolen vehicles and equipment.  A federal indictment handed up Thursday charged 41-year-old Tommy Edward Young Sr. and 22-year-old Tommy Edward Young Jr. with conspiracy and interstate transportation and possession of stolen vehicles and goods.   The indictment charged that the Ovapa residents acquired vehicles and farm and construction equipment that had been stolen in other states. The stolen goods were then sold.  The equipment included a mini excavator valued at $37,000 and a truck worth $80,000.
  • Oct. 2 p Defendants Sr and Jr.; co conspirators named: Dennis Marcum Jr. & Jay L Summerfield
  • Oct. 2 p Counts...
  • Oct. 2 p Summer 2003 - possessed and sold a 2001 New Holland Skid Steer Model 190, value  $41,000, stolen from Ohio June 26th
  • Oct. 2 p 2004 - possess and sold 2000 Takeuchi excavator, stolen from New York March 26th, value $16,000
  • Oct. 2 p 2005 possess and transport across state lines Caterpillar Model 227 Lakewood Ohio to Sissonville, value $47,000
  • Oct. 2 p July 2005 possess and transport a Haulin brand trailer stolen from Elyria Ohio, value with goods inside $31,000
  • Oct. 2 p   March 10 2006 possess, conceal, store Bobcat mini excavator stolen from Ohio, value $37,000
  • Oct. 2 p  March 6 2008  transport and interstate commerce the New Holland skid steer to Ashland Ohio
  • Oct. 2 p April 2008  stole a 2007 Liberty tandem axle trailer from Morrow county Ohio to Jackson County W Va , value $5000
  • Oct. 2 p May 2008 stole a Kubota B26 tractor with loaders and backhoe, value $24,000 in Washington County PA and transported to Jackson County W Va.
  • Oct. 2 p August 2008 possess and sale a 2008 F-650 black Ford rollback, value $80,000 stolen from Shillington PA
  • Oct. 2 p What the penalty Sr is looking at? 65 years in the can and a $1.75m fine. For Jr? 35 years and another $1.75m. Yikes!
  • Oct. 2 p We teach our children to be enterprising, to be entrepreneurs. Sounds like the Youngs may have taken those lessons to heart
  • Oct. 1 late p Deadline for Communicator submissions is Friday afternoon at 5pm. Email now
  • Oct. 1 p Lots of companies come and go. Many of them come in with grandiose visions.
  • Oct. 1 p Here's a question that needs answered. You have a 15 member government board but there are only say,,, 9 still serving. the rest have resigned. If a quorum is 51%, does it take  8 (15 member committee) or is it 51% of the 9 remaining? Email please.
  • Oct. 1 p Some are slowed down for good reasons, bad weather, changes in the economy, job market changes and on and on.....
  • Oct. 1 p From day one, William Whitteker said the Panserco call center would hire 260 workers and be open for business Oct. 1st or before. Whitteker was adamant with his words. Adamant with everybody he talked to. Oct. 1st , a date of his own choosing, was locked in stone. He waived around bank paperwork that money was not a problem, everything is a go.
  • Oct. 1 p As late as 9 days ago, Mr. Whitteker confirmed that obligation to open Oct. 1st.
  • Oct. 1 p  Oct. 1st has come and gone. The doors did not open. There was no note on the door. There was no notice given local media outlets. Whitteker was not there to explain any reason for a delay.
  • Oct. 1 p  Late this evening he emailed that there are problems with financing.

  • Oct. 1 p   Comments clickers.