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5 days ago | 
timeswv.com | Eric Cravey
BECKLEY — Artists from across West Virginia recently converged at the Beckley Art Center for a national juried art competition and exhibition. The juried exhibit “Aqueous” opened May 3 and was the culmination of months of work by members of the West Virginia Watercolor Society. However, because it is a national competition and exhibit, artists from across the U.S. could enter a piece. A different gallery hosts the exhibit each year.
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5 days ago | 
register-herald.com | Eric Cravey
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Eric Cravey
GRAFTON — To Nancy Goodpasture, of Fairmont, her mother Ginny Goodpasture was like many moms who cared for her children. "I mean to me, she was just the lady who gave me grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup," Nancy Goodpasture said. However, for a brief moment on Monday, Elizabeth Virginia “Ginny” Goddard Goodpasture, was among a list of 26 U.S. military veterans whose lives were celebrated as part of the 2025 West Virginia National Cemeteries Project that just finished its fourth year.
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1 week ago | 
timeswv.com | Eric Cravey
GRAFTON — To Nancy Goodpasture, of Fairmont, her mother Ginny Goodpasture was like many moms who cared for her children. "I mean to me, she was just the lady who gave me grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup," Nancy Goodpasture said. kAmw@H6G6C[ 7@C 2 3C:67 >@>6?E @?
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1 week ago | 
timeswv.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT — In a unanimous decision, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the December 2022 conviction of a Fairmont man in a case in which, evidenced proved, he killed his friend in the early morning of Sept. 15, 2020. The state's highest court ruled May 2 that Marion County Circuit Court Judge David R. Janes and the Marion County Prosecuting Attorney followed the state's laws in hearing and admitting evidence during the trial of 26-year-old Brian Allen Merchant Jones. kAmx?
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT — A Fairmont-based poet is one of six West Virginia writers who were accepted this week into the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship Program. Originally from Hardy County, poet and musician Tucker Riggleman, 37, has lived in Fairmont since 2022. His collection of poems, “The Wind Through the Sycamores is a Violin” was celebrated in January as he and other writers held a reading at the downtown Fairmont arts venue Two/Two/Eight.
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3 weeks ago | 
timeswv.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT — A Fairmont-based poet is one of six West Virginia writers who were accepted this week into the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship Program. Originally from Hardy County, poet and musician Tucker Riggleman, 37, has lived in Fairmont since 2022. His collection of poems, “The Wind Through the Sycamores is a Violin” was celebrated in January as he and other writers held a reading at the downtown Fairmont arts venue Two/Two/Eight.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT — When Mike Estep got the call to travel to McDowell County, West Virginia, he did not hesitate. Estep, the lead pastor of LIFE United Methodist Church in Fairmont, has deep roots in McDowell County "that go back to the 1800s pioneer days." He had read the accounts of the March flooding and it tugged at his heart. He gets frustrated talking about the unmet needs of a county that, in its heyday, had a population of 120,000-plus residents.
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1 month ago | 
timeswv.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT — When Mike Estep got the call to travel to McDowell County, West Virginia, he did not hesitate. Estep, the lead pastor of LIFE United Methodist Church in Fairmont, has deep roots in McDowell County "that go back to the 1800s pioneer days." He had read the accounts of the March flooding and it tugged at his heart. kAmw6 86ED 7CFDEC2E65 E2=<:?8 23@FE E96 F?>6E ?665D @7 2 4@F?EJ E92E[ :? :ED 96J52J[ 925 2 A@AF=2E:@? @7 `a_[___\A=FD C6D:56?ED]k^Am kAmQ(9J 42?
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1 month ago | 
register-herald.com | Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT – When Mike Estep got the call to travel to McDowell County, West Virginia, he did not hesitate. Estep, the lead pastor of LIFE United Methodist Church in Fairmont, has deep roots in McDowell County "that go back to the 1800s pioneer days." He had read the accounts of the March flooding and it tugged at his heart. kAmw6 86ED 7CFDEC2E65 E2=<:?8 23@FE E96 F?>6E ?665D @7 2 4@F?EJ E92E[ :? :ED 96J52J[ 925 2 A@AF=2E:@? @7 `a_[___\A=FD C6D:56?ED]k^Am kAmQ(9J 42?
