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YARD SALE – 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept 12, Friday, Sept. 13 and Saturday, Sept 14; ¼ mile past Hambleton intersection on US219N.  New items added will be last sale of this year, rain or shine.

Oct. 11, 1811: State founder and U.S. Senator Waitman T. Willey was born near Farmington. Willey proposed the West Virginia Statehood Bill in the Senate and saw to its passage and later signing by President Lincoln. He was then elected as one of West Virginia’s first two U.S. senators and...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The Forest Festival was a hit and the weather was very cooperative.  The trees are starting to turn and it was beautiful.  I am happy when the festivals and fairs have good weather because I remember how disappointed I was as a kid when...

Dear Editor: My heart did a flip-flop when I saw a picture of the building that was the first to be torn down.  When we moved to Parsons, it was the first place we lived in while we were building our house. It was a lovely apartment, large living room...

This is an announcement of the opening of the Ours and Barb Auto Repair Shop of Parsons. Beginning February 27, 1933, John Ours and Riley Barb will be in the Swartz Garage Building in East Parsons. The business can do any mechanical, paint or welding job. They also boast of...

Contact: Stan Bumgardner bumgardner@wvhumanities.org  304-346-8500 September 27, 2023 Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Oct. 4, 1934: Sam Huff was born at Edna, near Morgantown. Huff was part of a...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate For once the weather cooperated and the Fireman’s Carnival was a success.  Most years the rain moves in and spoils all the fun for the Carnival and the Forest Festival.  But the weather is supposed to hold and both will be great.  October is...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I am still continuing my morning walks that I started with Ripley.  I do miss her energy and just watching her enjoy being out.  It is so sad to have lost her so soon but I still have Mud Puppy /aka/ Amber and Gracie,...

Nature’s beauty is everywhere.  Photos by Teri Cayton.

Linda Shahan Sherman, Glenda Lipscomb and Faith Moore members of the Mountaineer Garden Club removed summer's last gasp from 40 planters from around Parsons and replaced them with mums grown at Tucker County High School by the classes of Paul Pennington. 

Many HELP4WV Helpline Specialists Have Unique Perspective  Every September, National Recovery Month is celebrated to highlight those who are in recovery from addiction and to give hope to those still struggling. Much is written about the substance use epidemic and West Virginia’s (highest in the country) overdose rate. Less attention...

Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 27, 1914: Author Catherine Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee. Her family moved to West Virginia and lived in Keyser during the...

Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 20, 1910: Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was born in Kansas City but moved at a young age to Morgantown, where she was valedictorian of...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Our “Fake Fall” is here in the beautiful state of West Virginia.  It seems to do this every year, we will have temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s and the next week it will be in the mid 70’s and down in the 40’s...

Editor,    They’re doing it again. Dinosaur mainstream media, working in perfect synchronized lockstep with world governments, are drumming up fear and hysteria over the new Pirola Covid variant. And of course, you know what that means. It means the return of lock downs, the return of mask mandates, the...

The Mountaineer Garden Club selected two residential yards of the month for September.  There are so many beautiful yards to choose from that the selection can be very difficult. The first yard chosen belongs to Kim Arbaugh Bonner on Jameson Avenue and wins kudos for her beautiful colorful yard full...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Tucker County is a place of peaks and valleys, twists and turns and a lot of rivers and waterways.  That is why Corridor-H is the road with a thousand bridges.  The count is also known for immense fog banks rolling in at night and...

By Belva Dilly Tucker County Historical Society  The first President of the United States to visit Parsons was President Harrison back in the 1890’s.  He was not well received by the citizens of the town.  The crowd was a rough bunch and it was feared that he could have been...

Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.   John Knowles Sept. 13, 1844: Milton Humphreys was born in Greenbrier County. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate service as...

By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate As a whole our society is becoming so complacent.  We don’t drive, we call an Uber, we don’t shop, we text the store and they bring it to your car, we don’t cook, we just call Door-dash, we don’t call and talk to each...