McCreery News

An 11,000-acre local property marked as the future site of a new high-adventure base for Boy Scouts of America was purchased Tuesday by BSA, spokesman David Lavalle announced Tuesday.

In October 1909, a group of 25 Beckley women gathered at the home of Sen. John McCreery on North Kanawha Street to organize a club with the purpose of self-improvement in literature and music.

Joe Maiolo, left, and Josh Sears, with the city of Beckley, work on rebuilding a storm drain in the parking lot of Richmond Law Office off of South Heber Street in Beckley.

Beckley motorists have been zigzagging around construction at the old G.C. Murphy location on South Heber Street for weeks as crews construct Raleigh County's judicial annex.