Richwood News

Thirteen months ago the residents of Richwood were looking for a miracle. A miracle in the form of two dams on the Cherry River to control flooding and provide economic relief in the form of a private lake and hydro-electric facility for this Nicholas County community.

Martha Shaffer Plant, 71, passed away at her home Saturday morning, June 27, 2009.

The Tamarack Foundation presents "The Best of West Virginia: A Juried Exhibition" in the David L. Dickirson Fine Arts Gallery at Tamarack through Aug.

A Nicholas County man is dead after losing control of his vehicle early Thursday morning.

A Richwood man died early Thursday morning in a single-vehicle accident on Cranberry River Road near Richwood.

It can leave you with a lingering stench - part skunk, part onion - and a gnawing desire for more.

Call them Tennessee truffles, wild leeks or wood leeks, but the real name is ramp and, for the next few months, the pungent member of the onion/garlic family, is in season.

A central West Virginia town fills the air with pungent festivities surrounding its celebrated herb.

RICHWOOD, W.Va. - Mary Frances McCoy Gladwell peacefully left this earth Saturday, April 18, 2009.

By Andrea Billups Monday, April 20, 2009 RICHWOOD, W.Va. It's springtime, and across enclaves of Appalachia, hearts and minds turn to ramps.

If anyone knows ramps from turf to table, it's Glen Facemire Jr. of Richwood. The retired Postal Service employee grew up in the Richwood area, where he dug and helped can ramps as a kid - "Not because they were a special, wild, springtime food, which they are, but because they were food, period," he said.

Lynda Paulette Cunningham "Robin" Talbott, 58, a resident of Summit Street, Elkins, departed this life Friday evening, April 3, 2009, at her home.

Bon Appetit's May 2009 special travel issue just hit the stands and includes a little love for some West Virginia eats.

March 8, 2009 House Passes Sweeping Appropriations Bill Rahall Secures Funds for Army Corps of Engineers Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC --- The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved a ...

Other fire departments are pitching in to help a Nicholas County volunteer department that lost two members while battling a fire.

It's my favorite tree. Has to be! Everything about it is interesting, and all its parts are attractive.

Lt. Johnnie Hammons and Timothy Nicholas died battling a trailer fire Thursday night.

A Nicholas County father has admitted he was living in his son's dorm room at Davis & Elkins and selling marijuana from there.

She started at $180 a month, and she was thrilled to get it. That's how long ago it was.

These past few months have had a few extra servings of difficulties for us, so it would have been easy to wallow and whine.