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feb 9 5 am Clay County School's are on a two hour delay. Salt shakers are out working the roads. Other county system's have closed for the day. Early morning scanner traffic mentioned ice on the roads.
Feb 9 5 am Be careful out there one and all.
Feb 8 p Glen Sutton found a beagle. Yours? Call him 304 587 4600
Feb 8 p You advertise your house for sale and list a price. Can that listed price raise the assessed value of your home? The answer is Yes according to Assessor Teresa Lane. Read all about it in Tuesday's Communicator.
Feb 8 p Still typing on the Communicator. Goin to be a good one. No updates until it gets to bed.
Feb. 8 a We sat by the phone last night waiting for Sarah the School Voice to call and cancel or delay school for today. She didn't call. We're mad at Sarah big time. Sarah is a poop butt!
Feb. 8 a About the only cancellation we have as of 8am today, tonight's Lady Panther B Ball game has been canceled.
Feb. 7 p We're busy typing on the Communicator, no weekend wrap up .. just a couple notes
Feb. 7 p The big snow that we was suppose to hit us this weekend, turned out the thang went all around us. Maybe 6 inches of snow on the ground with the roads mostly cleared up by Saturday afternoon. Power outages reported in the Northern end of the county. Now the cold cold temps are heading our way. Brrr!
Feb. 7 p Kids (and teachers) are waiting beside the phone for a "Sarah" call. None so far, 5:02pm
Feb. 7 p If the weather cooperates, we've got a full week coming our way.
Feb. 7 p Want to try getting your property taxes reduced, next chance is Monday morning, 10am, in the County Commission room.
Feb. 7 p With many "problems" facing them, including having very few firefighters at the ready, Big Otter Fire Dept meets Mondya evening at 7pm
Feb. 7 p Lady Panthers have a home game Monday night, 7:30pm. Boys play Tuesday evening at home.
Feb. 7 p Solid Waste Authority meets Wed, 5:30pm, upstairs in the old King Jewlery Store building on Main.
Feb. 7 p That nasty ole Hawiian President ain't done nothing! Well, except for making 25 tax cuts since coming to office and that's without ANY Republicrat help.
Feb. 7 p Obama de Bama has been criticizing the Republicrats for talking out both sides of their mouths. Like, they ALL votes agains the Recovery Act which dropped billions into local projects but then showed up for the ribbon cutting ceremonies and took credit while the cameras were rolling.
Feb. 7 p Her's a Badge that responded to a snowball battle by pulling his weapon. Dumb Dumb Dumb.
Feb. 7 p The real football championship was held yesterday Take a look at the team names. Nice.
Feb. 7 p Here's one of the sites chocked full of pics. Here's a second for reaaal football images.
Feb. 6 a At 9 am we've got about 6 inches of snow on the ground and the crap is still coming down. A wet, perfect for making hard as a rock, snow balls.
Feb. 6 a In West Virginia 42,000 are without electric service. Here in Clayberry for most, the power is blinking off and on . We'll post as long as the juice flows.
Feb. 6 a Maybe its true what the electric Gods say, it's cheaper to let a big snow clear the right of ways. With the huge Dec 19th storm doing most of the work, seems to be working.
Feb. 6 a Many roads around the state are closed. Most all activities are canceled.
Feb. 5 p Margaret “Maggie” King, 20, of Clay, see OBITUARY page
Feb. 5 p With everyone huddled in their homes, as of 7:30pm, lots of rain but no sleet of snow to report in Clayberry.
feb 5 p Tonight's CCHS Panther cancelled B Ball game has been rescheduled for Tuesday February 16th. Saturday night's Lady Panther has been rescheduled for Monday night February 8th. Thanks JH for the info
Feb. 5 p Noon Clay County Schools are closing two hours early. The little darlings are heading your way.
Feb. 5p Tonight's Panther B Ball game has been cancelled.
Feb. 5 p By the way... Two hour delays of early outs, that's still counted as a full day of instruction. Thought you'd like to know!
Feb. 5 a With only one win under our belts, Roane County comes to CCHS tonight for home court B Ball Panther action
Feb. 5 p Girls Basketball game Away against Poca has been cancelled for tonight. 2-5-10
Feb. 5 p Girls Basketball game Home against South Harrison has been cancelled for tomorrow 2-6-10 and rescheduled for Monday 2-8-10 to be played at Clay County High School. Home game
Feb. 5 p LKC Wrestling Tournament Match for Sat 2-6-10 has been cancelled - This match has been rescheduled for Wednesday at Roane County
Feb. 5 p As of Noon, Clayberry is experiencing rain with a temp of 37 degrees. No ice sleet snow yet. Keep your fingers crossed clickers.
Feb. 5 a Check the EVENTS page for Big Otter fun things to do
Feb. 5 a With nasty ice and snow predicted... we'll post until the Leonard Lines go down.
Feb. 5 a Batten down the hatches, the Alberta Clipper may be heading our way this time.
Feb. 5 a Last night the BDA didn't have a formal meeting due to lack of quarrel and no agenda posted. They did have a lively discussion which included...
Feb. 5 a Making plans to walk arm in arm with Big Coal at planned rallies to save mountain top mining practices in the state. When they were told the days of MTR are already over, no one accepted reality.
Feb. 5 a They also talked about improving the interior at the old State Road garage at Two Run which houses the Saturday night consignment auction business. Support a local business? Other than Big Coal, it'll be a first for the BDA.
Feb. 5 a One interesting tidbit from that gathering. The Adkins, the folks that operate the auction, have opened a weekday lunch diner in the same business. Owner Kim Adkins recently overhead Mayor Jack Brown bad mouthing the place as being housed in a dirty, condemned building and he'd work to get it closed down. Kim overhead the conversation and straightened out the Mayor in short order.
Feb. 5 a It's tough enough to operate a business in this county without elected officials working or at least talking about working against ya. One big atta girl to Kim Adkins.
Feb. 5 a We think the puter bug has been gone from this site for 36 hours. Anyone seeing anything, please email
Feb. 5 a Next week we start our annual begging for dollars campaign and we need each one of you! Be safe!
Feb. 4 a The Clay County Business Development Authority is suppose to meet the first Thursday of each month, 5 pm, CCC room. Haven't noticed a posted agenda as required by law but what's new?
Feb. 4 a Tonight the Panthers take on Calhoun in home court action. For those unwilling to get out on the roads or live too far away, 101.7FM will be sportscasting the event.
Feb. 4 a Speaking of roads, be sure to check out the weather report for Friday and the weekend. Looks like a 50 50 chance at ice, sleet, and some of the white stuff. Be safe.
Feb. 4 a Deadline for the next Communicator is Saturday at noon. Got anything on your mind? Maybe the shape of the economy, burning stuff you're not suppose to burn, putting convicts into asbestos laden buildings, removing trash cans in downtown Clay, the upcoming election... Email your chatters ASAP
Feb. 4 a Web site hacking has become a real sport for some. This site has received its fair share of attacks mostly from malicious Iframe injections. Thanks for all that have emailed with info on the pages infected.
Feb. 4 a Stepped up security was added last fall. Last night we cleaned the site once again and turned off php scripts after spotting a "script" that didn't look too healthy. Until last night we didn't even know what a php was!
Feb. 4 a We're in good company. A few months back Wal Mart's site was hit with the same brand of Iframe assault. We're vigilant but those bad guys finally made it to Clayberry. We're always behind the rest of the world!
Feb. 4 a When we originally set up the site, we started with a "front page" program for layout. Turns out that old outdated stuff is also a vulnerability. As we go thru and delete old files, some things can goof up. Take for instance the homepage button for instant weather reports. The time and temp is now screwy but the link still works. Will try and correct that problem ASAP.
Feb. 3 p Right now the weather report is just mentioning the S word and the county is going bonkers with fear. Settle down clickers, we've lived thru 14 inches dropped in five hours or less. What's an inch to fear?
Feb. 3 p Feb. is the only month of the year that you can seek a reduction in your property taxes from the County Commission. Yesterday was one of those times when you could make the request. No one did. Next opportunity Thursday. Call the County Clerk's office for details.
Feb. 3 p Up at the Pentagon, the School Board met Monday night where Gene King got a jab in with his request and success at reducing mileage rates for those that travel around on the taxpayer dime. Much of the meeting was spent behind closed doors, twice they went secret Monday evening. The norm is to discuss anything controversial during those away from the public times so as to present a united front back where the taxpayers can see em.
Feb. 3 p Clay Town Council met Tuesday evening. There was no mention on when the new Badge comes to work.
Feb. 3 p A dozen years ago the Town built a new state of the art log factory that was designed to vacuum those offending poop clusters at 500 mph to the new facility at Pisgah. Nice idea but there are some real problems.
Feb. 3 p In the Two Run area of the Town, between Go Mart and the Bank of Gassaway, big gobs of grease plugs up the system and back up. Even with all restaurants using grease traps to catch the cholesterol, still log jams. How bad? So bad, according to the operator, Go Mart is considering suing the Town.
Feb. 3 p Mid day Wed, state regulators along with local smoke Czar Jay Carper and town reps were seen eyeballing Go Mart's grease trap.
Feb. 3 p By the way.... Go Mart has their grease trap pumped out on a regular basis and has the documents to prove it. If you ask the town for a paper trail, bet you won't find it.
Feb. 3 p And finally on those missing from action curb side trash cans.... A few are back in service but according to the Mayor, the balance are in too bad a shape to set back out for use.
Feb. 2 2010 Ruth Elizabeth Simmons, 88, of Clay, see OBITUARY page
Feb. 2 2010 Lenore S. Hardman, 80, see OBITUARY page
Feb. 1 later p Archie Graham Schoonover, 94, see OBITUARY page
Feb. 1 late p Carl Wayne Hudnall Sr., 51 of Indore, see OBITUARY page
Feb. 1 late p Mail in filings for office are still coming in. Attorney Barbara Schamberger has filed for a House of Delegates run in the 29th.
Feb. 1 p The Sunday wrap up post has now been corrected. Fingers weren't working right!
Feb. 1 a We have daylight almost til 6pm. The days are finally getting longer. Thank goodness!
Feb. 1 a We've got a full week coming our way. Tonight the School Bd meets at the Standard Bryant Annex on Gump Street. Nothing too exciting on the agenda but did note the addition of time limits on each discussion time speaker. They might be afraid Dave Mullins would want to speak!
Feb. 1 a Tuesday at 4 and 6pm CAEZ meets. At 5 on Tuesday Clay Town Council convenes. Thursday , 5 pm, brings out the BDA folks.
Feb. 1 a On top of that, CCHS Basketball season is in full swing this week with lots of home court action Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
Feb. 1 a 2/3rd's thru the winter we're all dried out with itchy skin from taking too many hot steamy baths. We're sick of winter! Groundhogs have it better. They go to sleep in Nov and awaken in Feb. with one thing on their mind, sex.
Jan 31 9pm Clay County Schools are on a two hour delay for Monday Feb. 1st.
Jan 31 9pm Even their web site says so!
Jan 31 p We've got all the new legislative updates over on the ADVISORY page.
Jan 31 p We just had a bang up of a week in County Clay.
Jan 31 p It started off with a parked, fully stocked, ambulance catching on fire after being jump started. Some are suggesting that the recent smell of fuel may have added to the incineration. A total loss including a new heart monitor and one of those costly IO drills.
Jan 31 p County Commission met on Wed where Ambulance Director Bev King had already scheduled looking at a replacement unit. CCC put the brakes on such a purchase at the bankrupt ambulance service which only has $27,000 to their name and owe $50k to $60k on a bank loan.
Jan 31 p The Lady Panthers won three in a row during home court action.
Jan 31 p Thursday afternoon another sweep of the Murder Mountain neighborhood brought out another haul of misplaced goods including Greg Fitzwater's flat bed truck. No arrests have been made. It's that nasty wind clickers. Blows everything over on the hill!
Jan 31 p Snow returned to Clayberry. State road crews were treating the roads but it didn't help. Our roads were snow covered and worse. Cold too.
Jan 31 p Charleston newspapers reported yet another failing of our local school system. We were fined $5000 for failing to follow EPA rules on asbestos abatement at Lizemore Elem. That's $5000 that could have been wasted on the school superintendent salary or more office staff. Never to worry, the Levy will cover it all
Jan 31 p With 6 inches of snow on the ground, Deputy Jim Paxton signed up for a run at the County Clerk's spot now held by Connie Workman. Shortly afterwards, on the radio, Paxton reported to Top Badge, "I took your advice".
Jan 31 p The deadline for filing for office is now past. We're going to have a heck of a contest this time around. Senator Randy White has a demorat and republicrat challenger. There's four running for the three vacancies in 29th House of Delegates District
Jan 31 p Delegate Dave Walker (33rd District) won his perch by 15 votes or so last time around. Votes were divided up among two contestants from Calhoun County and one from Gilmer. This time, it's a head to head battle with Ron Blankenship for Dave
Jan 31 p For the County Clerk's job, that makes three, incumbent Connie Workman, one time employee of 15 years, Michelle Deyton, and Paxton.
Jan 31 p Circuit Clerk Mike Asbury's blood pressure went back down to normal Saturday night after learning no one will challenge him in the election booth.
Jan 31p The School system hates it when they get their wires crossed. That's what happened when incumbent Jim Dawson told folks he didn't plan to run for office and Rick Tanner didn't sign up until late with supposing he would take a shot at a County Commission slot.
Jan 31 p With incumbents Dawson, Tanner and Beth Cercone deciding to run, there are a bunch of strong challengers, Morgy Triplett, Dave Mullins , and Dave Pierson come to mind.
Jan 31 p Wires crossed? For the school system to continue their back room rock solid domination, the entire Board has to be in unison. Who's the Board going to campaign for, incumbent Jim Dawson or equally team player Dave Pierson?
Jan 31 p How do they plan to keep Mullins or Triplett away from the decision making position? One good answer would be to give school service personnel a carrot, say a $50 raise. They are so easily bought off!
Jan 31 p With a new month staring us in the face, that means we've got a full week of public meeting entertainment coming our way. Should be fun. See ya on the web.
Jan 30 5pm Roads are still snow and ice covered. Salt shakers are running but the weather ain't cooperating. Snow still coming down. We've got about 5 inches now. Fortunately, the Dec 19th snow did the right of way maintenance neglected by local power companies... translation: the electric remains on for most.
Jan 30 p James M. King, 80, see OBITUARY page
Jan 30 p Wanda Faye Young 69, of Bentree, see OBITUARY page
Jan 30 p Happy Birthday Debbie Procious
Jan 30 p From today's Charleston Gazette/Mail: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it's reached a settlement with the Clay County school district over a charge that one of its schools failed to conduct regular asbestos inspections.The settlement announced Thursday includes a nearly $5,000 fine. The EPA says the school district failed to inspect areas that contain asbestos at Lizemore School every three years as required by law. The elementary school has since come into compliance.The EPA says the state Department of Health and Human Resources turned up the violation during an inspection in 2007. Calls to Clay County school district were not answered Thursday afternoon.
Jan 30 p Your Levy dollars ar work.
Jan 30 p Friday afternoon brand new mega-boom attacked this site. We think the entire site is once again clean. If you see any warnings, please email with the page it was found on and the message displayed. Thanks
Jan 30 p At noon Clayberry has around 4 inches of snow on the ground and more still in the air. 21 degrees ain't helping anything.
Jan 30 a A new bug zapped this site around 2pm Friday. Still working to eliminate as of midnight last night.

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