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Craft Fair: The West Teays Elementary School in Hurricane will host its ninth annual craft fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5. Admission is free, and more than 50 vendors will offer their goods for sale.
Animal rescue group breaks ground on new adoption center
Little Victories Animal Rescue broke ground on its first permanent building at the group's farm in eastern Cabell County in a Nov. 14 ceremony.
Marriages: The following people applied for marriage licenses in Putnam County between Oct. 30 and Nov. 12:
New Putnam County Animal Relief Center needs donations, too
Donna Wellman is to be commended for her generous donation to Little Victories animal shelter.
The following obituaries were published in Charleston Newspapers from Saturday, Nov. 14, through Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
The following Putnam County-related news and feature items were among those published in recent editions of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail, Saturday Gazette-Mail and Sunday Gazette-Mail:
Sisters Jessica and Staci Proudfoot will be the first to tell you they're not very much alike.
Landlords' Meeting: The W.Va. Landlords Association will meet at Little Creek Country Club in South Charleston on Thursday, Dec. 10. A social hour precedes the 7 p.m. dinner and guest speaker. For more information, call 304-342-4342 or visit www.wvlandlords.com.
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts will present the statewide "Poetry Out Loud": National Recitation Contest, now in its fifth year, on March 6.
Tuesday, Dec. 1: Breakfast pizza, orange slices; shrimp bites, baked potato, cornbread.
Winfield High School teachers Allison Allbrighton and Jon Himmelgarn will be featured presenters at the 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools Blueprint for Excellence National Conference in Florida in December.  They will present their school's model of a successful middle to high school transition program.
They've worked together for 20 years, and they've never had a fight.
Nine Putnam County schools, including six elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, were recently honored by the West Virginia Department of Education for achieving Exemplary Accreditation status.
Putnam Rotarians pitched in last week on "Operation Fellowship & Fleece," a Christmas project to provide blankets to children of some 200 soldiers. The operation is sponsored by the Army Family Readiness Group, according to Mandy Fisher.
Generation Putnam, a young professional organization and committee of the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, has teamed up with Christmas for Kids in the Community this holiday season.
The following obituaries were published in Charleston Newspapers from Saturday, Nov. 7, through Friday, Nov. 13, 2009.
Exemplary schools a boon to the community
Nine schools in Putnam County were honored with an Exemplary status last week, and they are to be commended.
The following Putnam County-related news and feature items were among those published in recent editions of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail, Saturday Gazette-Mail and Sunday Gazette-Mail:
Berklee College of Music has announced that Sam Wiseman of Winfield has earned placement on the dean's list for the summer semester of the 2009 academic year.
National Adoption Day: The Tri-County YMCA wants to invite you to celebrate National Adoption Day. If you have been adopted, have adopted or are in some way closely associated with adoption, you can receive a free Guest Pass to the Tri-County YMCA facility on Saturday, Nov. 21.
From The Charleston Gazette
The developer of a Hurricane subdivision has sued the Putnam County Commission, the latest turn in a fight over a misplaced street sign that allegedly caused an ambulance driver to get lost while responding to a seriously injured 3-year-old boy.
Members of Nitro's City Council and the Putnam County Health Board met for the first time Tuesday evening to discuss a proposed agreement to put Nitro under Putnam County's jurisdiction, but officials are far from making a decision.
The former sheriff of Putnam County has been fined $100 for a November 2008 DUI arrest.
The pumpkins are going fast in Putnam County. Of the county's two farms that offer customers the chance to pick their own pumpkin, one has completely sold out and the other is running on a limited supply.
Veteran newspaperman also a book publisher and railroad history buff
Shelby Young, veteran newspaperman and Gazette-Mail Metro Putnam reporter for Charleston Newspapers for the last four years, died at his home on Thursday. He was 63.
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