

Grassroots reporting and connection to a place and its people. The Herald has received lots of media attention in newspapers and Misspelled epistle with shaky financial backing and poorly defined The original Herald was described as "A cheap, often unedited and Says the Herald's large readership was a surprise. Variously on articles, books and stories with their origin inĬalhoun County, including the "Tales of Bear Fork." Weaver has said he hopes readers across America will develop a perception of what life is about in the hills of Central West Virginia, past and present. The Herald has local news, sometimes reporting of controversial subjects, and a You could feel the pang of democracy at work when Hur's governingĬouncil for Social Improvement and Upward Mobility, rules on public

Questions put to him by little Billy Braveheart, Hur's most innocent Kerby," who comes out on half-moon nights in Salvation Hollow to clear Known to sit in a chair, or be fascinated by a heavenly visit by "The In the archives of The Herald you will read about Hunkerin' Ed Cooper, Historian, collector, naturalist and photographer. Prolific writer ("Most of the time I hack it out, but once in a while I write."), avid Because of expense, The Herald was placed on theġ, 1999 and now has over 2,500,000 million visitors a year, once had the most read Internet newspapers in West Virginia. Hur Herald's printed version in 1996 "for the amusement of my TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS - Rich Kurnik and Tim ConnollyĮditor Bob Weaver returned to his ancestral Village of Hur in 1995 and Of them as we launch into the new millennium, a shadowy image in aĭistant world." - Bob Weaver, Editor (1996)ĪSSOCIATE EDITORS - Dianne Weaver and Norma Knotts Shaffer The curious seekers who visit us on the Internet. To newcomers who have chosen to live in Calhoun County, those yet to While old timers may treasure these stories, we really "Full of spirit, character and flaw, rising up and falling down, their Spiritual connection with the earth and creation - a seldom To learn the toil of the soil, breathing sustenance and survival. "Our families thrust themselves deep into these steep mountains and
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There are powerful memories of a time when people were full ofĮven the smallest of things, life was hard but simple and most every With roots in its clay hold cautiously to the place like some cling to "Our village stands on the edge of memory, soon to be forgotten by HUR HERALD NEWS REPORTING ENDED 2021 AFTER 25 YEARS FLASHBACK 25 YEARS: INTRODUCTION TO HUR HERALD
