March 2007 Past News

 
  • March 30 LATE pm The Communicator made it to the news stands around 3pm today. 24 pages of soild information on life in the county of little.
  • March 30 Late pm Our lead story looks at the 11 indictments from earlier this week.
  • March 30 Late pm There's stuff going on Clayberry like  a suicide on Sycamore, pot bust at CCHS, but we've been tied up getting the paper to bed. Look for a post on Saturday
  • March 30 Late pm And we need to do some catching up
  • March 30 Late pm  From the email bag: WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO WISH MY UNCLE JIM HAROLD OF NEWTON A VERY, VERY GET WELL SOON.  HE JUST WENT OPEN HEART SURGERY.  HE IS A VERY GREAT MAN THAT HAS ACCOPMPLISHED A VERY MANY THINGS.  I JUST WANT HIM TO GET WELL SOON!!  I LOVE YOU UNCLE CROW!!   THIS IS FROM HIS NEPHEW,  CARY S SMITH
  • March 30 Late pm  From the email bag:  Hug a loved one in Memory of Kathryn Dawn and Rachel Elizabeth Adkins today.   Live today to the fullest because tomorrow is not promised.
  • March 30 Late pm Happy Birthday to my Mamaw Janet Fitzwater, Love Cole   Thank you so very much! Amanda Fitzwater
  • March 29 pm Forgot something important..
  • March 29 pm Happy Birthday wishes extended to the teacher's teacher, 95 year young Lucille Gillespie. Salute!!
  • March 29 am  We're in shut down mode while we put the near award winning Communicator to print. No updates until it's out the door sometime Friday afternoon.
  • March 29 am Here's a good reason while we shouldn't mix religion and government. Fred Thompson from Tenn is running for President. The right wing group Focus on the Family says the guy isn't a Christian and shouldn't be President.
  • March 29 am  After questioning,  Focus on the Family says they meant to say, he isn't an Evangelical Christian. If you don't roll down the aisle and handle snakes, you ain't Christian.
  • March 29 am  Where's the line clickers?
  • March 29 am  111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • March 29 am And talk about mean women.....
  • March 29 am   A West Texas Cowboy's wife came home just in time to find her husband in bed with another woman. With super-human strength, borne of fury, and cutting calves, she dragged him down the stairs, out the back door, and into the tool shed out back of the barn. She put his tally-whacker in a vice and then secured it tightly and removed the handle. Next she picked up an old carpenter's saw. The banged up Cowboy was terrified, and hollered, "Stop! Stop!  You're not gonna cut it off with that rusty damn saw, are you?"  The wife, with a gleam of revenge in her eye, put the saw in her husband's hand and said, "Nope. I'm gonna set this old shed on fire, and go to town for a cold beer. You do whatever you want."
  • March 28 am  The Clay County Commission meets this morning beginning at 10 am. Not too much on the one page agenda but you never what could come up at a CCC meeting
  • March 28 am Happy Birthday  Sarah Boggs
  • March 28 am  Here's one you don't see too often, from the email bag:   MISSING:  India Blue Peacock - full tail. His neck feathers are a deep blue - almost purple when the sun shines on him.  He is approximately 3 years old. Last seen in Blue Knob on March 22.  If you have seen him please call 587-2260
  • March 28 am  Need free clothes? some still have the tags on 'em. See ADVISORY page.
  • March 28 am Sleeping a little lumpy? Free Box springs, see ADVISORY page now
  • March 28 am We're not saying our local Badges are perfect....... During yesterday arraignment day hearing before Judge Alsop, every one of those indicted said Not Guilty. Many of them were there on drug or drug related charges. Although not guilty to proven otherwise, yesterday each of the young folks were pee tested. Guess what?  8 of 'em tested positive on everything from pot, to meth, to opium or all three!.
  • March 28 am The holding cell was so packed, they had to sit up!
  • March 28 am  We'll do the full write up in Friday's Communicator.
  • March 28 am Deadline for this edition is Thursday at noon. Get your notices. classifieds etc. emailed over.
  • March 28 am   For those afar, dogwoods are now in bloom. Apple trees are just showing their first foliage, and pot holes are everywhere. Spring is finally here.
  • March 28 am  A woman visited her plastic surgeon who told her about a new  procedure called "The Knob," where a small knob is placed at the top of  the woman's head and could be turned to tighten up her skin and produce the effect of a brand new face-lift. Of course, the woman wanted "The Knob." Over the course of the years, the woman tightened the knob, and the effects were wonderful, the woman remained young looking and vibrant.  After fifteen years, the woman returned to the surgeon with two  problems.   "All these years, everything has been working just fine. I've  had to turn the knob many times and I've always loved the results. But now  I've developed two annoying problems: First, I have these terrible  bags under my eyes and the knob won't get rid of them." The doctor looked at her closely and said, "Those aren't  bags,those are your breasts."  She said, "Well, I guess there's no point in asking about the  goatee."
  • March 27 am  Today is a big day for 11 Clayonians. This morning at 9 am, those indicted during Spring Grand Jury will stand before the Court and say Not me, Not Guilty!. Today is Arraignment Day in Clay.
  • March 27 am Wednesday morning at 10 am our County Commission meets in regular session.
  • March 27 am We had a guy email saying that the County Flood Plain maps would drawn before Sutton Dam was built in 1961. Not so clickers. The maps over in the Assessors office are dated 1991.
  • March 27 am Last Friday we did an on the street survey asking all those passing: Do you have on underwear. The results were surprising. The vast majority of those polled reported, nope, no bloomers on today.
  • March 27  am During the Survey, CCHS Principal Phil Dobbins zoomed past. We tried to get him to stop but to no avail. Monday we talked to him, he said he was in minority. Dobbins said to chalk him up as wearing underwear.
  • March 27 am   It is with greatness we report the first sound of a lawn mower running Monday evening.
  • March 27 am  A man was driving down the road and ran out of gas.  Just at that moment, a bee flew in his window.  The bee said, "What seems to be the problem"?    "I'm out of gas!" The bee told the man to wait right there and flew away. Minutes later, the man watched as an entire swarm of bees flew to his car and into his gas tank. After a few minutes, the bees flew out.   "Try it now," said one bee.  The man turned the ignition key and the car started right up.  "Wow!" the man exclaimed. "What did you put in my gas tank"?   The bee answered, "BP."
  • March 26 pm Electricity serving all of Triplett Ridge went off this morning at 8:23. Should be back on around 1pm today. That outage stopped audio from WYAP
  • March 26 pm It's tough for Clay Roane PSD customers to support the operation and high water rates when they see the storage tank (Hook Samples) overflowing Sunday afternoon for hours and hours. If you can see that much waste, wonder what we're not seeing?
  • March 26 pm Many in West Virginia have called Senator Rockefeller a carpet bagger from the get go. Those of us that listened to him Sunday afternoon think different.
  • March 26 pm Sen Jay spent two hours talking and answering questions at the Big Otter Community Center during a Meet and Greet forum. Around 70 people were in attendance. After some good food, his remarks showed him to be little different than the guy on the street with kids, grand kids, a wife recovering from cancer and slowed with 70 years or so of work..
  • March 26 pm Under questioning he provided answers. When asked about our lose of Habeus Corpus, he promised that would be restored.
  • March 26 pm On our loss of privacy, that was different. He said as Chair of the Senate Intelligence  Committee, there were many things he knew but was unable to mention AND based on that knowledge, it will be next to impossible to restore the privacy we had before 9/11
  • March 26 pm As for getting our troops out of Iraq, Mr Rockefeller, agreed. He said even if we started today, it would take 18 months to do it. In reply, the questioner said, fine lets get started. Applause followed.
  • March 26 pm Many in the community asked closer to home questions. Mike Evans was one of em.
  • March 26 pm   Mike's Mother is bed fast and has been for years. Medicare will pay for a monthly treatment only if she is ambulanced to Charleston , that's $2400. Evans said the same thing could be done at home for just $75 by a RN. Evans said he had asked Medicare to allow the home RN visit to save Federal $ and to make it easier on his Mother. According to Big Mike, the Feds wouldn't listen to his cost saving plan.
  • March 26 pm Jay listened and put his top dog, Wes Holden, on the case. Our guess, heads will roll and the problem will be solved shortly.
  • March 26 pm  A more complete write up in this Friday's Communicator.
  • March 26 am  A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table, she had a near death experience.  Seeing God, she asked,' Is my time up?'  God said, 'No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live. 'Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, brow lift, lip enhancement, boob job, liposuction, and a tummy tuck. After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was hit and killed by a car.  Arriving in front of God, she demanded, 'I thought you said I had another 40 years? Why didn't you pull me out of the path of the car?'  God replied,   'Giiirrrlllllll, I didn't even recognize you.
  • March 26 am   A husband and wife are in bed together. She feels his hand rubbing against her shoulder. "Oh honey, that feels good.", she says. His hand moves to her breast.  "Gee, honey, that feels wonderful.", she says.  His hand moves to her leg. "Oh, honey, don't stop." she begs. But he stops................. "Why did you stop?" she cries ???     "I found the remote..." he replied
  • March 25 Right after 9/11 the Government took away many of our rights to privacy by monitoring civilians via telephone calls. From the get go, many of us were labeled paranoids and subversive, working against the country's war effort for our fears of government busting the Constitution. In response to our outcry, White House leaders said, never fear, we would never do anything underhanded.
  • March 25 pm This week we found out the FBI was doing exactly what we feared. As documented in Glen A. Fine's Congressional report, 1000's of Americans have been spied upon by the government and worse. What could be worse? Finn documented national telephone service providers bowed down and willingly SOLD SOLD SOLD private information. That's right, they worked a deal where the Bell's could make a buck!
  • March 25 pm Those 8 attorneys were political hires and served at the will of their employer. True. But when Gonezales lied while testifying before Congress and the American people (March 13th), he opened a can of worms that can only be corrected by resigning from office.
  • March 25 pm After four years of shameful spending and terrible loss of life, finally, there was Congressional action to stop W's oil war. True the bill will never become law, it's  a start. The weakened Shrub may someday soon realize, all three of his plans to win his personal oil war, were dismal failures.
  • March 25 pm There have been 3,491coalition deaths -- 3,233 Americans, two Australians, 134 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvian, 19 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of March 22, 2007, according to a CNN count.
  • March 25 pm  Not so long ago, a clicker wrote and asked: Why don't we provide the real body count in the war. It took us a while to find accurate figures. Study finds as many as 654,965 Iraqis may have died as result of invasion
  • March 25 pm  What would it take to  raise war support for Dubbya? Got it. Grow the war into Iran. That's what we've got this morning with 15 Brits held in Tehran on charges of espionage. With Blair our only lap dog coalition partner, we have to support em. The USA already has three aircraft carriers and support ships in the area.
  • March 25pm Spring came to Clayberry. With, those little yellow flowers bloomed. Little purple flowers popped up. Buds were seen on apple trees. And, potholes grew.
  • March 25 pm The High School Baseball team took the field three times. Littler kids practiced baseball. Super Saturday is just a few weeks away.
  • March 25 pm With no business plan to give direction, inspite of all that, there was growth.
  • March 25 pm Under the old concrete bridge in downtown Clay, contractors worked to relocate the old water and sewer lines in preparation for the replacement of the beautiful arched bridge with an ugly culvert and valley fill.
  • March 25 pm   The Apple Festival folks scheduled a trout fishing derby April 13th at Lake Sampson and a fundraiser auction March 30th.
  • March 25 pm Around the county, some businesses cleaned up, started planting flowers and made prep for Spring. Others complained their business was doing  poorly. Wonder why?
  • March 25 pm  At the Courthouse, plans were made for another public hearing on why a new flood plain ordinance would be good for Clayonians.
  • MArch 25 pm
  • March 24 2007  Quentin O. “Buster” Wilson, 87, of Peach Orchard, see OBITUARY page
  • March 24 am  Virginia Dare “Jab” Jarrett, 87, see OBITUARY page
  • March 24 am Ahhhhh the weekend
  • March 24 am There's lots going on Clayberry this weekend including a visit by Jay Rockefeller. See the EVENTS page for the details
  • March 24 am  Friday afternoon was a great time to be outside. That's  where we headed for a Main Street Clay survey. The question put to those passing by: Do you have on underwear.
  • March 24 am We asked men, boys, and women. Prior the survey we thought we'd find most people wearing underwear.
  • March 24 am WRONG O
  • March 24 am Truth is, nearly 80% of those asked we're NOT wearing bloomers.  And Yes that included 2 out of 7 women surveyed.
  • March 24 am  If your thinking of investing in the underwear industry, don't.
  • March 21 pm  A year or more ago a Grand Jury returned an indictment on a Darlene Mullins. The lady showed up for Court and showed her operators license, birth date, eye color, and such. The info on Ms Mullins (standing in Court that day) was no where near the description provided by the Court.  Still they made her bring in other identifying information before dropping the felony welfare fraud indictment. Heck for that matter, her attorney, Wayne King, after hearing and seeing the description, told his client, that she should plead to a lessor charge.
  • March 21 pm By the way, the lady that showed up back then looks to be in her early 30's and not in her mid 50's as court documents reveal.
  • March 21 pm Yesterday, we printed the 07 Spring indictments which included Darlene Mullins once again.
  • March 21 pm That lady stopped by the office today and asked us to provide the public: IT AIN'T ME AGAIN!!!, The Darlene Mullins that isn't charged with anything lives out Dog Run.
  • March 21 pm  We know the County Commission plans to convene a second Flood Plain Ordinance hearing sometime in the next few weeks. That's OK. Sometimes it takes a couple times to get the message.
  • March 21 pm  We have a question. First: We know the existing flood plain ordinance requires any structure built after Nov. 1990 to be raised up out of the flood plain, moved, or torn down before any substantial addition is added.
  • March 21 pm  The high school had a $6 m addition added on when they built the new mini auditorium just a few years ago.
  • March 21 pm The Health Dept. has added new rooms on the riverbank since 1990.
  • March 21 pm Sure can't forget about the gazillion dollar sewer plant built right on the edge of the Elk River 8 years ago.
  • March 21 pm Here's the question: Did the school system, county government, and municipal government secure the flood plain permits BEFORE building.
  • March 21 pm If so, how did they get the permits without having to raise the old structures before starting the new stuff?
  • March 21 pm  Keep in mind, Charleston Suit Robert Perry, said there were NO waivers or exemptions allowed under the existing or new Flood Plain Ordinance.
  • March 21 pm   OK America it's time! The existing ordinance says those folks could be incarcerated for building without the Flood Plain Officer's OK.  Or, the other side, if those folks were not required to get the costly permit, why not?   What's good for the goose.....
  • March 21 LATE pm  The Spring Grand Jury met on Tuesday at the Courthouse. They completed their work before 3pm that day.
  • March 21 LATE pm Indictments this time around include:
  • March 21 Crystal Tanner  Burglary and Grand Larceny
  • March 21 John Paul Smith Operating or attempting to operate.. and Conspiracy
  • March 21 Timothy Tryon Operating or attempting to operate .. and Conspiracy
  • March 21 Charles Mullins Operating or attempting to operate   and Conspiracy
  • March 21  Ralph Fields  1st degree sexual abuse
  • March 21 Bruce Swindler failure to register as a sex offender
  • March  James Davis     Manufacture of controlled substance
  • March 21 Justin Mullins  Burglary
  • March 21 Dewey Owsley Murder
  • March 21 Darlene Mullins Welfare Fraud
  • March 21 Jeremy Gill  Forgery and Uttering
  • March 21 The Judge will hear their pleas March 27th beginning at 9am
  • March 21 pm We've made it thru winter.
  • March 21 pm Gone is the snow , ice, sliding on roads, and frozen fingers
  • March 21 pm Today is the first day of Pot Hole season.
  • March 21 pm With the last snow plow retired for the year, almost overnight, those pesky potholes grew
  • March 21 pm Pot Hole season was invented by the manufacturers of shocks and struts.
  • March 21 pm Please email over pictures of the deepest, worst, longest potholes. Give a location and we'll post on the web
  • March 21 pm By the way, County Commission is still considering that Flood Plain Ordinance and plans another public meeting in the near future to discuss the tougher zoning law.
  • March 21 am  Maysel Westfall Igo of Ossia Road, see OBITUARY page
  • March 21 am Don't forget the blood drive today at CCHS
  • March 20 pm   Ruth H. Brown, 79, of Clay, see OBITUARY page
  • MArch 20 pm Larry Thomas went to prison for the killing of Nancy Nelson. Thomas died last week. Word has it, a heart attack
  • March 20 pm  What started out as a cold gray day has turned into sunshine from wall to wall and beautiful.
  • March 20 pm  That March 25th visit by Senator Rockefeller at the Big Otter Community Center should say, he's coming at 1pm. That's 1pm.
  • March 20 pm  Here's a couple slivers from last night's School Board meeting...
  • March 20 pm  We have a new Vice Principal for the High School. Her name is Michelle Samples. Before the vote, the Somber Super said he was "surprised" the other applicant had pulled his bid and guessed the guy just changed his mind...... Anybody that believes that, we have some ocean front property for sale
  • March 20 pm  Our new County Commissioner Slinky has come up with a plan and grant dollars that will eliminate unwed pregnancies, prevent sexual transmitted disease, stop drug abuse, stop under age drinking, AND keep the kids out of your hair. True True True
  • March 20 pm Last night during the Board meeting, Slinky said he planned to use grant dollars to play movies at the high school! The County Commission  grant will cover 2 movies a month for 12 months, paid security & teacher supervision, and will steam the carpets twice  ($2700) at CCHS.
  • March 20 pm Maybe they can call it Popcorn and Condom nights at the CCHS. With 39 girls at the high school pregnant, maybe just handing out condoms would work just as well.
  • March 20 pm Myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lands, Sheriff Holcomb, Green Shirts galore, Judges and others have been working for decades and in one fell swoop, our new guy has the answer and he's been on the job just a couple months!
  • March 20 pm  The Communicator came out yesterday. We put about everything  possible  in there including all we knew about the TG investigation last week.
  • March 20 pm Today we received an anonymous caller who said we must have been bought off because we didn't add something more juicy than the facts in the newspaper.
  • March 20 pm The lady caller is on the right track but unlike Randy Schoonover who can be bought us cheap,  we want new cars, maybe black Mercedes with leather interior. We can be bought off, just not cheap.
  • March 19 pm  Helen Louise Johnson, 74, see OBITUARY page
  • March 19 pm The Communicator made it to the news stands around 4pm Monday. 20 pages of solid news and views on life in Clayberry. Our lead story covers last Wednesday's Flood Plain Ordinance Forum at the Courthouse.
  • March 19 pm Several of those in attendance asked for copies of the 29 page law. You don't have to wait for it to be printed on paper. Save the trees, just email us and we'll provide you a PDF  of the zoning law.
  • March 19 pm we'll provide an update Tuesday on Monday night's School Board meeting.
  • March 19 pm  Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors.  Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
  • March 19 pm  If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
  • March 19 am  the Communicator should be on the news stands around 4pm today. Pretty juicy too!
  • March 19 am Today is the 4th anniversary of death and destruction in W's oil war. Pitiful!
  • March 19 am   Our School Board meets tonight at 6pm at Clay Middle School. Last time they were in a pickle  over having two candidates for the CCHS Vice Principal job. Seems they got that worked out by having one candidate remove his application,. Funny how things work in Clayberry.
  • May 19 am Here's the complete agenda unless they decide to change it just before the meeting.
  • March 18 pm From the last seven days....
  • March 18 pm 7 more Americans soldiers died yesterday in Bush's oil war.  Reuters has an article of our President's dwindling support after four years of misguided war. Thousands upon thousands went to Washington yesterday to tell the Shrub to bring our troops home.
  • March 18 pm  In DC, Gonzales may soon be GoneZales based on his fibbing ways. If it was just that easy to get rid of a President. Congress went goofy stupid as they tried to interview the attractive spy, Valerie Plame. Their tongues were tied. They fell all over themselves.
  • March 18 pm With new Congressional leadership in Washington, we're seeing many more investigations into the shady back room  deals  of the Shrub administration. Good.
  • March 18 pm  There have been 3,457 coalition deaths -- 3,199 Americans, two Australians, 134 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvian, 19 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of March 14, 2007, according to a CNN count.
  • March 18 pm Tomorrow makes four years of war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. How sad.
  • March 18 pm First the teachers didn't strike in this county nor did out of county educators come in and set up picket lines.  Ahead of time, the WV Dept. of Education got tough and said strikes are illegal and if those bad ole teachers start a walkin, dock their pay. Smokin Joe put out info on salaries showing how wonderful it is for  our school systems to be ranked near the bottom in pay, 47 or 48th in the nation.
  • March 18 pm When emotions run high bad thangs can happen. Fortunately, Clayberry averted the situation this time. If the Legislatures had received that $5000 raise, making them near the top in pay for part time leaders, the teachers would still be walking the picket line..
  • March 18 pm Connecting the dots.... Mid week Federal agents locked down Telford's Chevrolet. With employees inside and the doors locked, an investigation was on. By noon the cars vehicles were gone.   Anytime the Feds come to town they ain't lookin for a lost dog. Based on his own words, the big Badges were looking at TG Cruickshank.
  • March 18 pm Following the look see at the dealership, they headed to TG's home. An hour into it, rumors were all over Clayberry. First it was money laundering, then it was selling flood vehicles, and finally kiddy porn. Everybody had a reason for the ATF and Homeleand Security folks in town. Turning to TG himself.....
  • March 18 pm We confirmed the investigation of TG Cuickshank with his own words. TG pretty much said: this is a bunch of whooey, they didn't find anything, he didn't know who started all this, he just had to let it takes it's time, and the stuff on this web site was wrong.
  • March 18 pm At week's end there were no charges, indictments, or information briefs against Cruickshank. The rumors kept coming.
  • March 18 pm Wednesday evening the people of Clay came in force to the Courthouse. The crowd overflowed the CCC room and the meeting was moved upstairs to the Courtroom. The taxpayers came to tell the County Commission, they wanted no part of an easier to enforce,  proposed, Flood Plain Ordinance. Numbering close to 150, no one spoke out in favor of the easier to enforce restrictions on use of private property. Many were compassionate while others were down right "testy".
  • March 18 pm  To better inform the public before a vote, the CCC called for a Public Forum. The meeting was designed to  let the residents know what the proposed ordinance would and wouldn't do. Big Cheese Robert Perry and local OES Director Pat Beets presented their case of:   we need to make these changes now or down the road, the Feds will make them for us and maybe the requirements could be even tougher. They said they wanted the changes for the life and safety of the citizens of the county. No one believed them, instead we gave em the raspberry!
  • March 18 pm In response, the people said, leave us alone, we don't trust FEMA, nor do we trust the Govt knowing what's best for us.
  • March 18 pm  Based on reactions of Kookla, Fran, and Jolly, they got the message
  • MArch 18 pm Now away from the public's prying eye, the Legislature worked their magic as they set up the new year's budget. With TV cameras pointed another direction, it's the $ that talk and those $ were allotted this week.
  • March 18 pm  Snow returned to Clay Friday. Saturday morning snow squalls made driving dangerous. It was overcast and gray. Saturday morning parts of Clay were covered with 2 inches of snow.
  • March 17 pm  Denver S. Miller, 53, of Indore , see OBITUARY page
  • March 17 pm  Bert A. Simms of Laurel Fork Road, Dutch Ridge,  see OBITUARY page
  • March 17 pm Happily we report, that little lost dog, Fido, has been found.
  • March 17 pm The winner of the Skate Park  Blue Sapphire ring raffle fundraiser was Jackie Good over at the Wallback Post Office.
  • March 17 am   From the Braxton paper:  Jokwin Schoonover II, with the assistance of counsel, Travis Ellyson, entered a plea of guilty to the felony offense of grand larceny. The plea came pursuant to a plea bargain agreement between Prosecutor William Martin and the Defendant. Judge Facemire ordered that a presentence investigation be conducted and scheduled the matter for sentencing on May 14, at 1:30 P.M.
  • March 17 am   We're ready for Spring but Mother Nature has another notion for Clayberry.
  • March 17 am  Every Boy Scout on earth is taught CPR. A new study indicates adding ventilation to the CPR compression does little good. Here's the study. Known to few, CPR provides a  10% survival rate under the best of conditions.
  • March 17 am During one Boy Scout First Aid merit badge course, scout one asked the other one, How long do I do CPR. The second kids replied: 20 minutes or until he's good and dead!
  • March 17 am Remember back in your 20s when you could sit on a  porch and torch a nice big thick one? Ohhh for those days of old.
  • March 17 am 11 states have voted to make medicinal pot legal. Now there's a 12th, New Mexico.
  • March 17 am Another step closer to realizing pot should be legalized nation wide and sold in the local drug store after being taxed out the whazoo.
  • March 17 am If pot was legal again in this country, we could do away with half the attorneys, Badges, Judges and prisons.
  • March 17 am Just getting rid of the attorneys would make it worthwhile!
  • March 16 pm We have an update on Wednesday's Fed raid down at the car dealership
  • March 16 pm According to the Fed spokesperson down in Charleston, as of 3:30 today, there are no indictments, information brief, nor criminal complaints filed against TG Cruickshank.
  • March 16 pm We also talked with TG himself this afternoon. He said he was not able to comment but added, there was nothing found, he didn't know how the investigation got going, and the postings based on "word on the street" are inaccurate.
  • March 16 pm    As is the case each and every time an arrest, indictment etc, there ain't nothing until the Judge says so.
  • March 16 pm If you're looking for a job..
  • March 16pm  Locally, at the Procious Water plant, there's an opening
  • March 16 pm If you're looking for something in the oil and gas field
  • March 16 pm Check out the JOBS page to the left. just click the button.
  • March 16 am   Anthony Michael Bishop, II, of Procious, see OBITUARY page
  • March 16 am We're holding up the Communicator until Monday. It'll be worth the wait
  • March 16 am  One thing to keep in mind on TG, nothing means nothing until a Judge says guilty.
  • March 16 am   Had a chance to talk with Commissioners Triplett and King, they got the message from Wednesday evening's Flood Plain hearing.
  • March 16 am  The Skate Park Committee is holding a fundraiser. They're raffling off a nice looking sapphire and diamond ring today at noon. Tickets are 6 for $5. See Vicky Gency or Terri Lively to get your name in the hat. The drawing will be done live, on air, at the station at high noon. Last minute ticket seekers can buy em at the station until 11:55am.  You can even watch the drawing on their web cam.
  • March 16 am  more as we get it........
  • March 14 am  We had a big day in Clayberry Wednesday. Here's the first load
  • March 14 am Badge mobiles were all around Telford's Chevy dealer yesterday. The place was locked down by the time the employees arrived. Customers were told to go away. Phone calls in and out were restricted.
  • March 14 am Fingers are pointing to TG Cruckshanks, son of the owner, Telford. Word on the street has it, speculation has it,  that the Feds were there investigating TG on kiddy porn charges, via the internet, and  based on credit card charges. For certain, yesterday, TG was put in a police car and taken to his residence where the investigation continued. Sources close say that a puter from the office was confiscated.
  • March 14 Just before 5pm, the public relations lady (Tracy Chapman) at the Federal building in Chrleston said she could only say: I cannot confirm or deny any investigation regarding that company. She said nothing more.
  • March 14 am   Of course when you hear that, you know something is up.
  • March 14 am  Family man TG Cruckshanks is a well known local business man having served as Clay Roane PSD Chair for a number of years and having run for School Board and, the  County Clerk's post  last time around.
  • March 14 am Whenever the Feds come in, you're in deep doo doo. They're norm is to have a tight case put together long before they knock on your door. Much like when the 60 minutes   knocks, when the Feds come a knockin, you can count on one thang, you've had a bad day!      More as we get it.....
  • March 14 am  Teachers in 14 counties staged a one day walk out yesterday. The fear was, teachers from others counties would come here and set up shop. Didn't happen.
  • March 14 am    Here in Clayberry, teachers voted to stay on the job. In support of their striking brothers and sisters around the state, our local educators wore red yesterday. Red was seen at each school in the county.
  • March 14 am County Commission asked our citizenry to attend a public hearing on a proposed flood plain ordinance. Such calls normally fall on deaf ears. Not so last night. The crowd filled the Commission room and the whole thang was moved upstairs to the big Courtroom. The place filled up quickly with people left standing in the hallway and along the back wall of the room. Around 150 people in all were in attendance.
  • March 14 am There wasn't one person in the peanut gallery that spoke in favor of the proposed zoning law. The crowd wasn't quiet either. Strong questions were raised from the git go. The crowd was not friendly in any shape or form to a new easier to enforce flood plain ordinance which would reduce private property owners' rights.
  • March 14 am  Those in attendance did not put up with the big Charleston suit talking in circles. With answers in short supply, the crowd added cute but mean spirited one liners.  One lady in the back asked: Who invited you here anyway???? With threats of gloom and doom if the new ordinance doesn't pass, one guy, that's you Leonard Litton,  yelled out: You're scaring us, why don't you throw in the flood and Noah too!" One Board member from the Clay County Bank was very vocal in disputing  the little white lies and at one point responded with, " Your scare tactics are NOT true!!!!!!!!"  The peanut gallery reacted with applause after each strong rebuttal and jab.
  • March 14 am The suit, Robert Perry and local front man Pat Beets, were very careful to never use the "zoning" word.  Their legaleeze word was "those in non compliance would be dealt with."   What they would not say was:  Any structure built in the flood plain after 1990, would have to be torn down or moved if the new ordinance is accepted by the CCC.
  • March 14 am Each time a questioner asked for a Yes or No answer, Perry lit in with  a big load of double speak. The gallery caught on real quick and challenged both Perry and Beets for real answers.
  • March 14 am At first Commissioner Fran King said she was considering  elimination of the ordinance fees as a way of appeasing the crowds. That didn't work either.  The crowd made it clear: they want less government interference in their lives, FEMA cannot be trusted to do anything right, there is no need for a new ordinance, and there is no benefit for the county with a new ordinance.
  • March 14 am  Did the Commissioners get the message? They couldn't help but get the message. What is the message? Answer: Leave the current , working, less intrusive, ordinance in place, tell Mr Perry to come back when the Feds mandate something, and leave us alone!
  • March 14 am The forum continued to after 9pm. Most of the crowd stayed at  least 2 hours.
  • March 14 am Online we speculated that only a handful would bother to show up for the hearing. We were wrong and what a wonderful mistake.
  • March 14 am More postings later today.
  • March 14 am Have we mentioned we're holding the Communicator until Monday? True True True. Email in your events, classifieds and such by noon Friday.
  • March 14 4:29pm   We're waiting on a call from the Fed's PR person. Stay tuned.
  • March 3:44pm   Circuit Clerk Mike Asbury said there is absolutely nothing at his office sealed in anyway. He went on to say that since being in office, there's only been one sealed anything and that was last year with Randy Schoonover.
  • March 3:44pm   Mike is one of those people that don't fib, cover over or the like. We asked the sealed "something" question as many different ways as we could think of, and each time, no was the answer.
  • March 14 pm   Something is going on down at Telford's Chevy.
  • March 14 pm This morning the place was locked down. No one was allowed in or out. Telephones were not answered.
  • March 14 pm Green Shirt mobiles were seen in front of the building all morning long.
  • March 14 pm About as soon as it was over, the rumors started around, federal investigation, a computer removed...
  • March 14 pm   Calls to the Circuit Court's office revealed little more than they weren't talking about any sealed anything.
  • March 14 pm Ric Tanner at Telford's said he could not say one word. As for the local dealership being open, Mr Tanner, "We are open at this point for business."
  • March 14 pm Updates coming when we get them.
  • March LATE am  Check out the ADVISORY page for the latest from the State Dept of Education on today's teacher's strike.
  • March 14 am  There are 148 new job listings over on our JOBS page... to the left clickers
  • March 14 am Welcome to our newest advertiser, Country Hollow Primitives. See home page on right
  • March 14 am  Today's the day many teachers around the state go on strike. Happened here in 1990 but not this time. Seems the teachers cooled down when the Legislature didn't get their  33% pay increase.
  • March 14 am Of course there could be problems this morning. What if teachers from other counties come into Clayberry and picket. Will our teachers and bus drivers honor a picket line or become slimy puck scabs. We should know by 7:15 this morning.
  • March 14 am The County Commission host two meeting today. The 10 am meeting is their regular session. Tonight at 6pm is the biggy
  • March 14 am The CCC is asking the public to attend this Public Hearing, to learn, and ask questions about the soon to be voted on Flood Plain Ordinance. Clayberry has had such a law on the books for years. According to the Charleston suit and Pat Beets, the existing law is too hard to enforce.  It has no teeth.
  • March 14 am The new 29 page law, some are calling it a zoning law, makes it easier for enforcement to include jail time for those building an outhouse near the 100 year flood plan.
  • March 14 am Zoning works well in large urban areas where there is plenty of land available. In rural Clay where there is little flat land between the mountains, zoning sucks.
  • March 14 am  The Charleston Suit that's pushing the Flood Plain Ordinance has been very very careful to NEVER use the Z word while hyping the goodness of a new law.  When the government tells you how you scan spend your own money on your property, that's zoning.
  • March 14 am Tonight's Public Hearing is very important and if the new law is passed, it will effect those on mountain tops and hollers alike.
  • MArch 14 am   How many people do you think will attend tonight's 6pm hearing. Email your response. Our guess: 19
  • March 14 am Sen. Jay is coming to the Big Otter Community Center March 25th at 3pm. Not sure what's the purpose of his visit but elected folks often show up to accept accolades after a crisis. The call from the Senator's office might have made a difference during  the gas outages last month, BUT,  it was whiny arss Fran that called up the WV PSC and said: You either call an emergency hearing NOW or I'm declaring an emergency and will start bad mouthing you in the newspapers.
  • March 14 am Last night Clay Co PSD met in regular session. They have between $113,000 and $140,000 left to spend on the Lizamores/Tuckers Bottom water line extension project. That's not enough for a line going up some unserved holler so, forget the notion. It looks like they will choose between straightening up the Little Italy mess where the folks often go without wa wa in the evenings or,  fix a "slip" on Ben Murphy's property near a new pump booster station. Which ever is chosen, it's doesn't sound like they will be able to purchase that new ATV or buy computer software which makes the new touch read meters work efficiently.
  • March 14 am   While visiting his niece, an elderly man had what was apparently a stroke.  She drove wildly to get him to the emergency Room.   After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER doctor appeared, wearing his scrubs and a long face.  Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid that your uncle's brain is dead but his heart is still beating."  "Oh, dear," cried the woman, her hands clasped against her cheeks with shock. "We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"
  • March 14 am   A nun, badly needing to use the rest room, walked  into a local Hooters.   The place was hopping with music and loud conversation,  and every once in a while the lights would turn off. Each time the lights would  go out, the place would erupt into cheers.   However, when the revelers saw the nun, the room  went dead silent. She walked up to the bartender, and asked, "May I please use  the rest room?"   The bartender replied, "OK, but I should warn  you that there is a statue of a naked man in there wearing only a fig leaf."  Well, in that case I'll just look the other way," said the nun. So, the  bartender showed the nun to the back of the restaurant.   After a few minutes, she came back out, and the  whole place stopped just long enough to give the nun a loud round of applause.  She went to the bartender and said, "Sir, I don't understand. Why did they  applaud for me just because I went to the rest room?"    "Well, now they know you're one of us," said the  bartender. "Would you like a drink?"   "But, I still don't understand," said the  puzzled nun.  "You see," laughed the bartender, "every time  someone lifts the fig leaf on that statue, the lights go out."
  • March 13 am   James William Lewis, 81, of Strange Creek, see OBITUARY page
  • March 13 am   Today at 5pm the Clay County PSD meets in regular session in their Main Street Clay office trailer
  • March 13 am Yesterday the CCC continued their work on the 07-08 county budget. Before the Commission was Bev King from the Ambulance Service. At times it seemed like she was in the hot seat before the Commish. One of the thorny issues was Bev hiring high dollar Stepto and Johnson law firm to rewrite, rework the Ambulance policy and procedure manual to the tune of over $3000.
  • March 13 am No yelling or screaming mind you, but there appeared to be some rough issues as they talked.
  • March 13 am The big meeting of the week comes Wednesday evening at 6pm when the public is invited over to the CCC room to find out more and speak out on the proposed Flood Plain Ordinance.  OES Director Pat Beets and a Charleston Suit want the thing passed right now. Mr Beets said he would like Clay to be one of the first counties in the state to have the tougher restrictions.
  • March 13 am Clay County already has  a Flood Plain Ordinance on the books. According to Beets, the new ordinance is little different from the current law with one exception. The new law makes will make it easier to enforce.
  • March 13 am Some in the community feel differently. Some think the new law is the first step in county wide zoning. Others know that if implemented, those in and near the 100 year flood plain will have a much tougher time using their property as they want.
  • March 13 am There is no disagreement that if implemented, building about anything will be much more costly.
  • March 13 am For instance, if you have a home located in or near the flood plain, before you can add anything like a bedrooms or other addition, the original home will have to be moved above or out of the flood plain.
  • March 13 am And Yes, jail time is included as a penalty for violators.
  • March 13 am Here's an example of what can happen with a tough Flood Plain Zoning Ordinance...... Down in Clendenin a nut burnt down a discount store. If you look there now, you will see this ribbon and marker located 6 feet above street level. That is the height the Flood Plain Co-Ordinator has determined as the minimum level for the floor of ANY new construction on that lot. ANY new construction.
  • March 13 am That's inside the municipality. With that mandate, the lot will set empty from now on. When the next building is burned or torn down, there will be another empty lot.  Some day soon, Clendenin will be all empty lots. Take a look at Reedy in Roane County as another example of what flood plain ordinances can do.
  • March 13 am Anytime the government tells you what you can and can't do with your own money on your own property, that's zoning. Better attend the hearing on the 14th at the County Commission room.
  • March 13 am  We understand teachers in Clayberry will not strike Wednesday. Send those ankle biters to school!
  • March 12 pm To keep a business open in West Virginia is a miracle. Here in Clayberry, there are few businesses. There's about to be one less.
  • March 12 pm  Over in Procious, Betty's Place restaurant announced their closing effective 4pm March 31st. How sad.
  • March 12 am This week the County Commission continue heir meetings with Department heads as they figure out their 07-08 budget. Today the CCC meet after lunch
  • March 12 am  Clay County PSD meets in regular session Tuesday at 5 pm
  • March 12 am Forget the weekend update posting, the Shrub is sending another 8200 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • March 12 am   Many of you have tried out Google Earth. There's now a web based satellite imagery site. This new one has much more current shots of Clay County. And, there's nothing to download in your puter.
  • March 12 am Now that's you've wasted an hour looking at your house and if the boss is still away, here's a darn good online challenge for your gray cells.
  • March 20 am  A woman in her fifties is at home, unclothed, happily jumping on her bed and squealing with delight. Her husband watches her for a while and asks, "Do you have any idea how ridiculous you look? What's the matter with you?" The woman continues to bounce on the bed and says, "I don't care what you think. I just came from having a mammogram, and the doctor says that not only am I healthy, but I have the breasts of an 18 year-old. The husband replies, "What did he say about your 55-year old a$$?" "Your name never came up," she replied.
  • March 11 am  Here's a pretty full look at the last 7 days
  • March 11 am W needed a few days down South as a get away from the bad mouthing in this country. Unfortunately for the the Shrub, he went the wrong direction.
  • March 11 am Our noble leader quietly asked/received for more troops. Nope, not the 21,500  but more 4400 more soldiers and $3.2 BILLION.
  • March 11 am  There have been 3,446 coalition deaths -- 3,188 Americans, two Australians, 134 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvian, 19 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of March 9, 2007, according to a CNN count.
  • March 11 am  And then there was those nasty commy ACLU folks in the news. Now those guys are saying the government lied to us about those warrant less searches of our private records. Shame on them!!!
  • March 11 am  In West Virginia.... Tom Auxier received notice via snail mail of a hearing last year. He didn't pick up the letter for a few days and missed the hearing. The Judge ordered him to pay expenses for not showing up. Auxier appealed the decision and get this, he won, no attorney, just him.  While before the big ropes, he asked them to settle the decades old Hatfield/McCoy type land dispute. Here's the write up on his win.
  • March 11 am Your kid gets in a fight on a school bus. The front mounted video camera is on. Can the public see the footage? The answer is right here.
  • March 11 am In every badge movie or TV show, they always strap a secret "wire" on somebody. While the Feds took away our right to an attorney and knowing what we're charged with, in West Virginia, the big robes said no to that wired informant practice unless a court gives the OK.
  • March 11 am  And then there's the great nation of Clay.
  • March 11 am  Spring is here. The Farm Store has their fruit trees setting out in front of the store. Joey Holcomb was seen laying on t he sidewalk twice this week. Daffodils are pushing up from the earth. Clayonians were seen in shirt sleeves. Old timer call this pneumonia weather.
  • March 11 am The norm is for the county school administrators to have their selection for any job opening selected and hand picked before any bids are made public. You get a lot fewer applicants when you tell em ahead of time, sorry, we already have that job filled. Monday night the Somber Super was to announce the name of the new Vice Principal at CCHS. Didn't happen. They got their wires crossed somewhere and ended up with two applicants. It's always fun to watch em squirm. They are now.
  • March 11 am The new rising star on the County Commission made promised to be here and there for important county business. Slinky was a no show this past week. The widdle crown on his head is not quite so shiney after this week.
  • March 11 am  The Daily Mail did a nice write up on Dave Pierson last week. True, Pierson volunteers a bunch in the way of equipment and man power to the county, the newspaper peace was received as a first volley in next year's County Commission race. Pierson is the expected to challenge incumbent Peter Triplett.
  • March 11 am Speaking of Dave Pierson.  Teachers are expected to stage a one day strike this Wednesday. They are peed big time. On the same day the Legislature announced  $5000 (33%) raises for themselves, Gov. Smokin Joe announced teachers aren't worth more than a 2.5% increase and if they go on strike, disciplinary action will come their way.
  • March 11 am Back in 1990 teachers went on strike and shut the state down. Back then they received the support of the school administration. The story goes, when Hank Marocki told Superintendent Jim Dawson to discipline those wayward educators or  I'll see you're fired, Dawson blew a raspberry and rearranged the school calendar so they could stay on strike without losing pay.
  • March 11 am Questions this time around: Will the local administration support the strike? Will the chicken sh**,  company suck teachers show that yellow stripe?  Will our DINO Gov. actually do any discipline after backing himself in the corner? Will the other teacher's union, AFT, support their fellow unionists or show their scab ways? What about those bus drivers?
  • March 11 am And back on Pierson, will Dave flip the bird at striking teachers this time around?     The strike is slated for Wednesday.
  • March 11 am Our CCHS Lady Panthers did what hasn't been done in years, they won a state championship playoff game by beating Petersburg.
  • March 11 am It didn't go so well  in the second game where they lost to Summers County. Summers went on to win the State Championship, and rightly so.
  • March 11 am As the girls came thru town on their way to the tournament, people asked, why aren't they on a school bus? They weren't. Maybe we need a bigger Levy. Can't run those promised activity buses and build two classrooms at the same time.
  • March 11 am And the biggy of the week was the arrival of the Girl Scout cookies.
  • March 11 am For all of us Diabetic cripples, how do you eat just one Samoa? And those darn mint cookies.....
  • March As for the Samoas, can you eat just one or two when they come 6 to a roll. Seems to me, you're suppose to eat the whole roll. Then, if  you nibble a cookie in the scond row, you have to eat that entire row. By then the splitting pain, sugar high,  runs straight up the center of your forehead.
  • March 11 am  Hiding those thin mints from others is equally hard to do. Soon as you zip open the box, it never fails,  somebody comes in expecting you to share your cookies.   Or course hiding a half eaten box of cookies helps little. As you go about your duties.. you start thinking... I'll eat just one more...
  • March 11 am Time to stop posting. Got another one of those pains right in the middle of the forehead and it ain't Joe or Mikey.
  • March 11 am That's it for the weekend wrap up. Keep it tuned to clayberry.org for all the important stuff in the Great Nation of Clay.
  • March 10 pm  Radie Belle Nicholas, 91, of Clay,  see OBITUARY page
  • March 10 pm  William Claudious Markle, Jr., 84, of Maysel, see OBITUARY page
  • March 10 am Bummer  Double Bummer
  • March 10 am Last night in state basketball tournament action, number one ranked Summers County beat the Lady Panthers 56 to 39.
  • March 10 am Truth is, the Summers County girls got out in front in the first quarter and never looked back.
  • March 10 am  it was a good season for the Lady Panthers!
  • March 9 am CCHS has had teams make it into State Tournament action. But, actually winning one of those games.. it's been a long long time
  • March 9 am Last night our Lady Panthers beat out Petersburg 62-41.
  • March 9 am  Tonight  The Lady Kit Kats continue their quest for a state championship. Most likely their opponent will be Summers County. That team beat us during the regular season but not by much. If we win Friday night, we're in the Championship game!
  • March 9  am See everybody down at the Civic Center around 7pm. Go Clay!!!!!!!!
  • March 9 am There's a bunch of black people in prison. The question is: Are there that many more bad black people than whites or , maybe there's more Badges in black neighborhoods and see more incidents by being there.
  • March 9 am Earlier this week our new Commissioner missed the ballot certification.  With all eyese on him, how about a Slinky update.
  • March 9 am Yesterday morning, the guy was suppose to be attend a Charleston meeting to discuss a proposed road from Clay to Rt. 19 over in Nicholas County and Fola deeding 1000s of acres of land for economic development. CAEZ was there... the State Road folks were there... Fola was there ...   But no  Slinky.
  • March 9 am Well, maybe those well educated kids don't need new jobs in the county. And shoot, who needs acres of flat land to lure business into the county.
  • March 9 am   Last night Clay Roane PSD met at the Courthouse. Mr. Rude was there but behaved himself.
  • March 9 am Clay Roane and Queen Shoals PSD customers received notice of  bad drinking water standards. According to the Chief Operator, Clay Roane experienced higher than allowed Haloacetic Acids levels in Oct. Nov. and Dec of last year. The problem levels too high in five areas, at the far end of the system.
  • March 9 am So what are Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)?  Answer: they are a group of chemicals that are formed along with other disinfection byproducts when chlorine or other disinfectants used to control microbial contaminants in drinking water react with naturally occurring organic and inorganic matter in water. The regulated haloacetic acids, known as HAA5, are: monochloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid, trichloroacetic acid, monobromoacetic acid, and dibromoacetic acid. EPA has published the  Stage 1 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule to regulate HAA5 at 60 parts per billion annual average. This standard will become effective for large surface water public water systems in December 2001 and for small surface water and all ground water public water systems in December 2003.
  • March 9 am  So how do those acids gets in the wa wa supply? Answer:  Disinfection byproducts  are formed when disinfectants used in water treatment plants react with bromide and/or natural organic matter (i.e., decaying vegetation) present in the source water. Different disinfectants produce different types or amounts of disinfection byproducts. Disinfection byproducts for which regulations have been established have been identified in drinking water, including trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, bromate, and chlorite.
  • March 9 am Does any of this sound familiar? It should. This ain't the first time there's been problems in the PSD system. Last year, our county sanitarian was very concerned about the green slime growing in the water tanks.
  • March 9 am Think your home water purifier takes out that bad stuff? The answer is no and here's the link.
  • March 9 am  Interested to know what those acids have on still birth and miscarriage rates? Here's the answer from a Northern study done in 2001
  • March 9 am  And, if the boss is away and you want to do some heavy duty reading from the World Health Organization, check this out.
  • March 9 am Now that everybody is ready to run for attorney and start the litigation ..... Chief Operator Jennifer Traub said that objectionable  level  was just just barely barely over the state max guidelines.
  • March 9 am How about a little test to see how clever you are.  You are participating in a race. You overtake the second  person. What position are you in?  ANSWER: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
  • March 9 am  Next
  • March 9 am      A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done .   Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?   Think   THINK      THINK
  • March 9 am  ANSWER: He just has to open his mouth and ask... It's really very simple.
  • March 9 am  Dear Makers of Tide,  I am writing to say what an excellent product you have! I've used it all of my married life, as my Mom always told me it was the best. Now that I am in my fifties I find it even better! In fact, about a month ago, I spilled some grape juice on my new white blouse. My inconsiderate and uncaring husband started to belittle me about how clumsy I was, and generally started becoming a pain in the neck. One thing led to another and somehow I ended up with his blood on my new white blouse! I grabbed my bottle of Tide with bleach alternative, and to my surprise and satisfaction, all of the stains came out! In fact, the stains came out so well the detectives who came by yesterday told me that the DNA tests on my blouse were negative and then my attorney called and said that I was no longer considered a suspect in the disappearance of my husband.    What a relief! Going through menopause is bad enough without being a murder suspect! I thank you, once again, for having a great product.                          Well, gotta go, have to write to the Hefty bag people.
  • March 8 am  State law mandates posting a meeting agenda in advance of the gathering.. The whole idea is, the public has every right to know what the yeewhoos are up to before they vote something dumb.
  • March 8 am  The old ambulance authority resorted to hiding their agendas. One time they posted the agenda at the back of the Courthouse over in the corner behind a trash can. On Monday the School Board neglected posting theirs on front door three days in advance as required by law. They did get it on their web site.
  • March 8 am Clay Roane PSD holds their monthly meeting tonight at the Courthouse. They emailed their agenda well in advance of the meeting to Commissioners and the media. It's posted over on our ADVISORY page now.
  • March 8 am Of course it's never quiet at Clay Roane. They just received a new complaint this week from Clara Deyton. Here's an excerpt:  During my telephone conversation with Mr. Grigsby, he was extremely rude and continuously interrupted me, refusing to let me speak and more importantly, not agreeing that Clay-Roane needed to restore our driveway by replacing the gravel that was there before the construction began. After mentioning this telephone conversation to my son, he called Mr. Grigsby to inquire as to why he was of the opinion that Clay-Roane was not responsible for restoring the driveway. Mr. Grigsby was also rude to my son. After a heated discussion between the two, Mr. Grigsby agreed to come and look at the driveway. After his initial inspection of the driveway, he tried to place the blame on the man who dug the water line, who was employed by Clay-Roane PSD on an hourly rate without a written contract. After another discussion, Mr. Grigsby said that he was a contractor himself and he done this kind of work. He estimated that it would take at least 40 ton of gravel to fix our driveway. He asked if this would be sufficient and I told him as long as it covered the mud, I would be happy with it....
  • March 8 pm   It is our understanding that 20 tons of gravel was dumped not 40.  With the formal complaint filed, our quess, the Deytons ain't too happy!
  • March 8 am After the Levy election or any election for that matter. The official count has to be certified. That was planned earlier this week at the Courthouse at 11am. To be legal a quorum of the CCC and the School Board has to be present. the plan was for Commissioner King and  Commissioner Slinky to be there along with the School Board.
  • March 8 am 11 came and went without a Slinky. He finally called as he was heading down the road to Charleston. The certification had to be rescheduled for 1 pm when Commissioner Triplett could come over on his lunch break.
  • March 8 am  Priorities  Priorities Priorities
  • March 8 am  More as we get it.
  • March 7 pm  Otha Norris Stalnaker, 87, of Wallback,  see OBITUARY page
  • March 7 pm  From the email bag: I drive through the traffic signal at the Dundon bridge every day, sometimes several times per day.  I agree with the majority that it's an inconvenience.  But, much like any traffic signal here or elsewhere, it is only that:  an inconvenience.  And like any traffic signal, it's there for a reason.  I cannot count the myriad times I've had to come to a complete stop when my signal is green to avoid a head-on collision with traffic running the red light on the opposite side.  Sadly, it's the same situation with local stop signs at intersections.  Stepped-up enforcement around the Dundon bridge may be the only thing that helps avoid a tragedy waiting to happen.  A few extra seconds is never worth the lives of the innocent.  If you feel it's OK to disregard this traffic signal, maybe the bus driver with your children aboard feels it's OK too.  So let's all try to keep the important things in perspective....what's a few seconds of waiting compared to the consequences.  A ticket or a tragedy?

    •  Tom Pringle
  • March 7 pm Always good to hear from a clicker
  • March 7 pm  from Rose's blog:  A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split. The waitress asked kindly, "Crushed nuts?"  "No," he replied, "Arthritis.
  • March 7 am Hello Edna
  • March 7 am  The Communicator has been delivering the truth on Clayberry for nearly 12 years. We do that by attending public meetings and providing first hand info.  When we started, there was a little paper over in Clay devoid of anything more than how Aunt Sue's birthday party went. Out of county landfill battles came and went without a mention. With the majority of the county against such development, there was no mention in that little rag.   One side of a controversy was provided in a It Depresses Me column.
  • March 7 am We understand that little paper still exists. We know that because of a couple calls received about a recent article proclaiming the accomplishments of that new Commissioner, Slinky. The article mentions all the money brought to the county by "the" Commissioner.
  • March 7 am The truth is, the guy has been on the job two months and there are NO stars beside his name. Even if the guy was Superman, he ain't, two months isn't enough to do anything more than learn a few ropes of the trade.
  • March 7 am As for accomplishments ........
  • March 7 am The campaign promises of millions in grant dollars, none to be seen yet. The promise of having puter software sourcing grant funds, wrong. That software belongs to the School System.  As for grant writing promises during the campaign, most recently he hs been saying, he will "help" those inside the Courthouse.   As for hitting the deck running and accomplishing a lot from the get go, we now have a once a month luncheon at Courthouse.. During the Feb gas outages, other than volunteer to be the guy in front of the cameras, he was nowhere to be seen.
  • March 7 am  To suggest or put in print Slinky has accomplished anything more than show up for meetings is not true.
  • March 7 am  He knows it, we know. Thank goodness for having a real newspaper for 12 years and now a web site.
  • March 7 am Out near the Wallback exit of I-79, Frank Murphy owns several hundred acres of undeveloped land. Rumors have come and gone about something being built there. Everything from gas stations, to Wendy's to a hotel.   During yesterday's 4pm CAEZ meeting, something more substantial was mentioned.    With electric and water already there, preliminary discussions are underway to buy and develop housing on 300 acres of the holdings.
  • March 7 am    With close proximity to Charleston, close access to the interstate,  and recreation at Lake Sampson, nice housing could draw a lot of people sick of city life.
  • March 7 am  For years locals have complained that local economic development groups (BDA and CAEZ) have done nothing to grow or expand  existing businesses in the county. Clay County is still looking for the first, non government, full time job with benefits. How about some change?
  • March 7 am  Also from the CAEZ meeting, one guy suggested meeting with Fola Coal ( they spend $13m a month on supplies) and finding out what they could buy locally if it was available.
  • March 7 am The guy's suggestion met a good response. Here's the plan: meet with Fola, see what they are buying from out of county, out of state and nation, and then see if those products could be produced in Clayberry. How refreshing.
  • March 7 am We'll get to yesterday's Town Council meeting soon but for now.
  • March 7 am  Yelp they went into a lengthy secret time sending the peanut gallery out on the front porch of the water plant. While standing there we learned something. Clayonians HATE with a capitol H that stoplight in front the of the Dundon Bridge Ski slope construction site. In Clayberry when that light turns yellow, everybody speeds up. Everybody. When it turns red, we can always run four more vehicles thru it!
  • March 7 am That includes big trucks, county vehicles, little white vans with blue stripes, and Badge mobiles from all departments. Me too! As a matter of fact, kind of fun. One lady told me she received a ticket late one evening. She said no one was waiting at the far end of the stoplight and after a quick look in the rear view mirror, she went on thru the stoplight and out of nowhere, the blue lights came on.
  • March 7 am  Can you imagine the delays and traffic snarl during the Sept Apple Festival?
  • March 7 am  A record number of Americans now say that the Iraq war was a "mistake" and less than half say the U.S. can win the war, a record low number, according to a new Gallup/USA Today poll released today. Almost 6 out of 10 Americans (58%) want troops to be withdrawn within 12 months and only 13% support sending more. Finally, people coming to their senses!
  • MArch 7 am  For clickers with a high speed connection and some time to spend, here's a link for some pretty cool state web cams.
  • March 7 am  Here's some pretty cool signs seen recently: Sign in a veterinarian's waiting room:  "Be back in 5 minutes.  Sit!   Stay!!"
  • March 7 am  Sign on a retail store door "PUSH. If it doesn't open, PULL.   If it still doesn't open, WE ARE CLOSED."
  • March 7 am  Outside a country shop: "We buy junk and sell antiques"

    • March 7 am  "Open 7 days a week and weekends."
  • March 6 pm  Clifton Enos Morris, 77, of Lizemores, see OBITUARY page
  • March 6 pm   Rev. Woodrow Townsend, 57,  see OBITUARY page
  • March 6 pm   We reported that the Clay Town Council meeting agenda was posted on their front door with the date March 1st  at 6pm as the meeting time. The 1st was last Thursday. Their normal meeting time would be the first Tuesday of the month , today.  We got all torqued up and mentioned how pitiful such back door dealings are the community.
  • March 6 pm The person responsible for posting agendas is Town Recorder Dwana Murphy.
  • March 6 pm We went over to see Ms Murphy this morning.  She said March first was the date she posted the agenda and today is the meeting at 6pm. We relooked at the posting.   When asked if she had changed the agenda since last weekend, she said NO and said she would put her hand on a stack of Bibles and say it. She was not a happy camper.
  • March 6 pm Since we didn't take a picture of the Agenda we saw last Sunday and not disputing Dwana, Apologies extended.
  • March 6 pm Clay Town Council meets today at 6pm and the agenda is posted. Good. Their meetings are held at the water plant on Main Street and are open  to the public.
  • March 6 pm Also today, the Central Appalachia Empowerment Zone (CAEZ) meets at 4 pm (economic development committee) and again at 6pm with the full Board of Directors. Come out and enjoy a public meeting.
  • March 6pm  Yesterday the upstairs courtroom was packed. In addition to finishing a trial it was motion day.  Late in the afternoon Judge Facemire convened a hearing on Mountaineer Gas operating the old Wagner, Beechy, and Valley Gas companies now in receivership.
  • March 6 pm At the heart of the hearing was Clay County Bank not honoring any checks written on those old companies. The hearing was called to clarify what could or couldn't be done. Those dead checks included employee checks and a $12,000 check written to cover Habjan's attorney .
  • March 6pm  The Judge made his intentions very clear. Mountaineer Gas to is operate and maintain the local service company as if it was theirs. They are to look at each check and if it seems reasonable, pay it. And that includes paying the employees and attorney.
  • March 6 pm Something else from Monday's hearing.... The WV PSC will be allowed to look at other "commingled" accounts like the San Dee and Saglio gas supply AND John Habjan's personal accounts to see if anything looks out of place.
  • March 6 pm Judge Facemire said that Mountaineer is to take charge and be responsible for all the old files.
  • March  6pm  Last night the School Board met in regular session.  Board Chair RB Legg was absent. Instead of the Vice Chair or other elected Board member running the meeting, didn't happen. Instead, our Somber Super, Larry Gillespie chaired the gathering. Sounds like a big  Hmmmm....
  • March 6 pm Do we know the name of the new CCHS Vice Principal? Nope. That position and several others were to be filled last night according to the Agenda.   All were except the CCHS VP job. We think there is a mess up with the wording on the vacancy posting and the Administration is doing double time to get the person they want in, in.
  • March 6 pm  According Gillespie, Mike Mullins and Michelle Samples applied for the job being vacated by Jim Haynie. Although the job posting ended early early last week, candidate Michelle Samples was not available for an interview.  That was all according to the Somber Super.
  • March 6 pm  Unavailable for a high dollar job interview? Both Samples and Mullins are veteran teachers with their shortcomings and pluses well known to the administration.   Some things are hard to swallow when it comes to the School Board.
  • March 6 pm Our WV State Education Dept folks regularly come around and hand out pretty little paper certificates of performance to our teachers. Just a few years ago when national media was reporting our many shortfalls, the state folks came up and handed out certificates for improving attendance. No mention was made of readin writin and arithmatic scores back then.
  • March 6 pm  Last night CCHS Vocational School teachers were the recipient of the pats on the back after mentioning all the vocational kids being on the highway for success.
  • March 5 LATE pm The Communicator made it to the news stand around 4pm Monday. Solid news and information on Clayberry found o other place. 70 cents and worth every penny!
  • March 5 LATE pm   Full update on Habjan checking account and the School Board meeting Tuesday.
  • March 5 LATE pm It's seepy time for now.
  • March 4 late pm   We're doing the typing thang tonight to get the Communicator out the door Monday afternoon around 4pm. No new posts until we get the paper done.
  • March 4 late pm The School Board meets Monday evening at 6pm. Although they have their meeting agenda on the web site, it's sure no posted at the Board office for public review.    With many retirements coming this year, the Board is set to fill jobs all around the county including the Vice Principal's job at the High School.
  • March 4 late pm There's something screwy with the web posted agenda. Notice that all the positions filled are listed with the exception of the CCHS VP job. It is the policy of the Administration to have the person of their choice selected looooooooooong before the job is posted to others. Last year such back room actions became public when one Boardster said she heard the position was already filled before it was ever posted. With egg on their faces, they got Ms Cercone on another subject as quickly as possible.
  • March 4 late pm As a hunch, for that VP job, the school administration got their wires crossed and they're squirming.
  • March 4 late pm    A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees three men sitting at a corner table. He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says: "I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her in the hallway buck naked. Man, she is one fine looking woman!"   The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His buddies are confused, because he is one bad biker and would fight at the drop of a hat. The drunk leans on the table again and says: "I got it on with your grandma and she is good, the best I ever had!"  The biker's buddies are starting to get really mad but the biker still says nothing.   The drunk leans on the table one more time and says, "I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!" At this point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by the shoulders looks him square in the eyes and says...................  "Grandpa,....... Go home, you're drunk."
  • March 4 am We have a whole bunch of new job listings over on the JOBS page.
  • March 4 am It's not every week we report the Vice President was nearly blown up. When Politically Incorrect Bill Maher said "Good", he's once again back in the hot seat. The Talaban was nothing until we stirred up the Mid East hornets nest. Now in a civil war, the surrounding nations are coming together to defend themselves against the occupation forces of the mighty W.
  • March 4 am With 8 American or American contracted helicopters have been shot down in the last 6 weeks, the insurgents have stepped up their efforts. And, that's inspite of our oil war escalation of troops.
  • March 4 am  We're concerned our about solders most of all, but this past week was costly to many others too.
  • March 4 am   We saw something alarming this past week. We saw the power of China on our economy. In debt to our eyeballs to China, when they hiccupped Tuesday, our Wall Street felt it back time. That drop in the stock market should be a wake up call before they have a total strangle hold on us.... if it isn't too late already.
  • March 4 am  Mr Shrub has said over and over, N Korea is a danger to us, they have nukler weapons. He also told us about WMD and Iraq had nukes.
  •  This past week , the word got out. N Korea intelligence on their capabilities... was wrong.
  • March 4 am  There have been 3,423 coalition deaths -- 3,166 Americans, two Australians, 133 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvian, 19 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of March 2, 2007, according to a CNN count.
  • March 4 am Closer to home....
  • March 4 am  Our online fundraising closed up Wednesday.  Thanks to all those that generous folks that help keep this site up and running. With an immediate first hand source of backdoor dealings by the Blue bloods, nothing ticks them off more! Thanks again. No more begging and whining for another year.
  • March 4 am  Well, maybe once more. For those slow pokes, that mailing address is DELTA; PO Box 14; Procious WV 25164.
  • March 4 am Promise Promise Promise, that's it for this year.
  • March 4 am The CCHS Lady Panthers won the Regional Tournament last week against Braxton and are ready to go to the States this coming week.
  • March 4 am No so for the boy's team which lost in Sectional action Thursday evening and their season is done.
  • March 4 am With the EXCESS Levy passed by a wide margin 8 days ago, people are starting to wonder about the campaign promises. Like, the Board promised to build new classroom space at HE White and Lizemores Elem schools. They said construction would begin right away. Plans have already been drawn up. They said without  these new  EXCESS Levy $, the new space would not be possible.
  • March 4 am  With passage, the extra tax burden will be on the Spring tax tickets. The money won't be available until Fall. Construction is slated for this Summer. Where's that money coming from? Hmmmmmmmmmm...
  • March 4 am  A little more was revealed during Thursday's BDA meeting. With portions of their industrial site owned by others, the BDA is ready to go back to Court and try the attorney route to recovery. Also from Thursday, BDA bylaws say, you miss three meetings in a row, and you're out the door. They want Catherine Knotts on the economic development board and Brian Moore off. Moore has missed many more meetings than he has attended. The CCC was ready to appoint Ms Knotts four weeks ago until they realized, Moore had not turned in a resignation.
  • March 4 am BDA bylaws say, miss three meetings in a row without a good written excuse, and it's automatic, you're out!
  • March 4 am And it's Spring time in Clayberry. On Main Street people were seen in their shirt sleeves. Others were seen washing the salt off their vehicles. Benches around town were being used. It's almost time to plant tators. Even with snow in the forecast, no one cares. It's March and that means Spring!
  • March 4 am Saturday morning around 9am,  911 reported a white Chevy pick em up truck with a big Chevy decal in the rear window roaring thru Hartland nearly hitting somebody.
  • March 4 am Green Shirt 311 said he would respond. The Badges location was on I-79 where he worked the rest of morning nabbing speeders out there.
  • March 4 am A white Chevy truck with a Chevy decal in the window, traveling at high speed.... wonder who could that could have been?
  • March 4 am   With the start of the new month, lots of public meetings this coming week. Keep it tuned to Clayberry.org for all the juice on life in the Great Nation of Clay.
  • March 4 am  There  are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman: Before marriage and  after  marriage.
  • March 4 am  Why  were hurricanes usually named after women? Because when they arrive,  they're wet and wild, but when they go, they take your house and  car.
  • March 4 am  A  man goes to a shrink and says, "Doctor, my wife is unfaithful to me.  Every evening, she goes to Larry's bar and picks up men. In fact, she sleeps  with anybody who asks her! I'm going crazy What do you think I should  do?" "Relax," says the Doctor, "take a deep breath and calm down. Now, tell me, exactly where is Larry's  bar?"
  • March 4 am  John  was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully. "Give me one last request,  dear," he said. "Of course, John," his wife said softly. "Six  months after I die," he said, "I want you to marry Bob." "But I thought  you hated Bob," she said. With his last breath John said, "I  do!"
  • March 4 am    A  man goes to see the Rabbi. "Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have  to talk to you about it." The Rabbi asked, "What's wrong?" The man  replied, "My wife is poisoning me." The Rabbi, very surprised by this,  asks, "How can that be?" The man then pleads, "I'm telling you, I'm  certain she's poisoning me, what should I do?" The Rabbi then offers,  "Tell you what. Let me talk to her, I'll see what I can find out and I'll  let you know." A week later the Rabbi calls the man and says, "Well, I  spoke to your wife. I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You  want my advice?" The man said yes and the Rabbi replied, "Take the  poison."
  • March 3 LATE pm  Robert James “Bob” Runnion, 66, of Wallback, see OBITUARY page
  • March 3 am  Hey we've got a big lunar eclipse tonight. Should be partly visible in the USA and the great Nation of Clay.
  • march 3 am  Many of us feel the criminal justice system and lengthy jail times aren't working. U.S. Justice Kennedy made this comment Friday before  a Congressional committee: They will take a way a kid who was 19 years old, well he was doing what he shouldn't have done, he was growing marijuana in the country at his parents  cabin and he had his fathers 22, and he was giving it to his friend. Okay He's a distributor, he has a weapon and I think it’s mandatory. It’s 12-15 years mandatory. An 18-year-old doesn’t know how long 15 years is! And the pardon power is not being used. They pardon a handful of people in the states and in the federal system. Because they are afraid of re-offense and so forth and so there is no compassion in the system. There’s no mercy in the system. And when you are spending in the state of California 30,000 a year on a prisoner and 4,500 per student in elementary school there is something wrong…to have in the U.S. two million people behind bars for a lengthy time is just not working.
  • March 3 am How refreshing and it was Regan who appointed Kennedy not a Demorat!
  • March 3 am   Ed was in trouble.  He forgot his wedding anniversary.  His wife was really angry.  She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in less than 6 seconds.  AND IT BETTER BE THERE!!!!"    The next morning Ed got up early and left for work.  When his wife woke up she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box, gift wrapped, in the middle of the driveway.  Confused, the wife put on her robe, ran out to the driveway and brought the box back into the house. She opened the box and found a brand new bathroom scale. Ed has been missing since Friday.
  • March 2 pm  Oscar Junior Paxton, 83, of Wallback, see OBITUARY page
  • March 2 am The B Ball season is over for the CCHS Panthers. last night they came up short during the Sectional Tourney game with Roane County. Is was the first ever Sectional win for Roane.   The Lady Panthers kicked butt in Sectional and Regional action and are heading for the State Tournament next week.
  • March 2 am  Senator Love's Legislative Update article for March 2nd is now posted over on the ADVISORY page.
  • March 2 am We saw some pretty dirty campaigning during the 04 Presidential campaign. War hero Kerry came out looking like a whimp. The Federal Election Commission decision yesterday fined the behind the scenes back door campaigners $750,000.00
  • March 2 am  Whenever the Shrub gets mad, he just fires the offenders. Congress is holding  hearings on those firings. At the bottom of those hearings is a secret provision in the Anti American Patriot act.
  • March 2 am  Nope Nope, not us, the USA doesn't torture or hold people in secret black hole CIA prisons. For those that believe such BS, you might want to read this account.
  • March 2 am  Clay County's lead economic development group, the BDA, has worked for years on the old Filcon site. They moved dirt only to have it stole a few years ago. Then they cut back into the hill side to make more flat land only to have it dug up for a garden.  $1000s were spent covering the place with grass. Then wandering cows chomped away at the gas. It was costly to have three phase power moved onto the land. Now they plan to relocate the power lines.
  • March 2 am  Las night during the BDA meeting, the group OKed costly court action where they will attempt to gain control of two triangle shaped land parcels they don't own. Yelp, all that work on property owned by others.
  • March 2am  It appears on the day they deeded land to Filcon, with all the property swapping to give JD Morris a better yard, some of the land that they needed to retain, wasn't.
  • March 2 am That's all very bad news. There may be some better news from last night's gathering. They didn't get in a fight. No one was whistling in displeasure. And, they got the ball rolling to build an office building on the site.
  • March 2 am No Communicator until Monday afternoon.
  • March 1 pm   Patsy Jean Conrad, 59, of Strange Creek, W.Va, see OBITUARY page
  • March 1 pm   Esker L. Holcomb, 72,, see OBITUARY page
  • March 1 pm   Herbert Doddrill Fitzwater, 77, of Ivydale, see OBITUARY page
  • March 1 pm We're bringin the Communicator out a day late this time. Deadline for classifieds, meeting notices, events, etc. is tonight at midnight. Get your stuff emailed now.
  • March 1 am  Download speeds last night at 11:25 were  546 kbps. And that's high speed DSL! Posts are limited until we get a better connection.
  • March 1 pm The Lady Panthers brought home the Regional Championship trophy. Next stop, State Championship in Charleston. Go Clay!
  • March 1 pm The Business Development Authority meets at 5pm today at the Courthouse. After the last meeting, Chair Leonard Williams resigned. Since then he rethunk that  decision and via letter, he's once again at the helm. Might make for an interesting meeting.
  • March 1 pm Hello Helen and thanks for the donation.
  • March 1 pm  From Medina, OH - Two teens led police on a two county, 30 mile chase in a stolen car.  Tuesday, the little speed racers faced six-charges, including felonies that could keep them in jail for years.  Take a look at this link clickers. Caught in Ohio, the juvy is blurred but......

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