Greg Stone

Dec 10, 2023 | dailycamera.com | Greg Stone

Boulder Food Rescue (BFR) is actively addressing the serious issue of food insecurity in Boulder. The organization takes fresh produce that would otherwise be wasted to communities throughout Boulder County that live with food insecurity, by bike!Hayden Dansky, co-director of BFR, highlights that food insecurity has been a long-standing issue in Boulder County, exacerbated since the pandemic. “Pre-pandemic, about one in nine residents faced food insecurity.

Oct 3, 2023 | wvgazettemail.com | Greg Stone

Two musicians will bring down the curtain on Elk City Records’ Washington Street location. The shop, opened in March 2017 at 311 W. Washington St., is no longer in business at that location. Owner Phil Melnick is in the process of moving the store’s stock to 601 Maryland Ave., at its corner with Lee Street. The business is remaining on the West Side, but moving into a much bigger facility that will offer more storage space and a small spot for occasional musicians.

Sep 27, 2023 | wvgazettemail.com | Greg Stone

A new Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department building in Winifrede may be a ways off. But the old one should be demolished soon. Kanawha County Commissioners approved last week spending $10,000 from its demolition of dilapidated structures fund to tear down the building, Commissioner Lance Wheeler said Wednesday. One corner of the fire station has been dangling over Fields Creek since the Aug. 28 floods which devastated Eastern Kanawha County.

Sep 23, 2023 | wvgazettemail.com | Greg Stone

The Third Ward of Chesapeake is also known as “Lower Chesapeake.”Geographically, it is accurate. It is the lower, or most downriver, part of town. But to Melissa Hill, it’s not just a designator of place. “Our parents did a lot of protecting us from the brutal truth,” Hill said from her Town Hall office, where she serves as the 75-year-old municipality’s first Black mayor. “The brutal truth is that Ward 1 and Ward 2 saw us as lower.”“Lower” as in lower in stature.

Sep 22, 2023 | wvgazettemail.com | Greg Stone

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection “has initiated sampling and is awaiting results” on soil contaminated by a 2022 chemical spill into Paint Creek. Chief Communications Officer Terry Fletcher issued a two-sentence statement when asked if the DEP had performed soil test samples on the banks of Paint Creek.