Gassaway News

Many parts of West Virginia have an excess of deer. At the same time, there are hundreds of Mountain State families who need food.

Throughout the Mountain State, food pantries and soup kitchens are feeding more faces, including many new faces, and some are doing it with fewer donations.

Travelers on Interstate 79 are discovering another reason to hit Exit 62 around lunch or dinner time.

Kanawha Trail Club will sponsor a hike to the New River Gorge/Fayetteville area at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

Working parents feed their children in soup kitchens as cost of living soars in Gassaway, West Virginia Each Friday, teachers in elementary schools in a corner of the richest country in the world quietly slip packs of peanut butter, fruit and granola bars into some pupils' bags - enough food to get them through the weekend before school dinners ...

The blaze was contained to one building. Story by Gil McClanahan Email Other Stories by Gil McClanahan GASSAWAY -- Some hot spots rekindled Tuesday afternoon while fire investigators were looking for the cause of the blaze.

Fire has destroyed a landmark in Gassaway. Firefighters from four departments battled the blaze Monday night at the Elk Lunch Lounge.

Firefighters are battling a major blaze in Braxton County as of Monday night. The fire happened at the Elk Lunch Lounge in Gassaway.

Walk into Royal's Barber Shop, and at first, you might expect to meet Floyd from Mayberry.

DNR recently announces hunters donated 1,149 deer to the program during the 2008 hunting season.

Oak Hill city council focused its first meeting of the new year on welcoming a couple of new faces and discussing a new police station Monday evening.

One woman is dead after a fire Friday morning in Braxton County. The fire broke out before 2:00 a.m. at a house on Little Otter Road outside the town of Gassaway.

Hunters throughout West Virginia again have the opportunity to help hungry families by sharing the deer they harvest.

With a few days of antlerless deer season remaining and muzzleloader season yet to come, preliminary figures suggest that the deer harvest has been up this year and that's good news for local food pantries.

A food bank that covers most of West Virginia is counting on hunters to help this winter.