Sissonville News

A Sissonville community appreciation dinner will take place at 6 p.m. March 18 in the gymnasium at Aldersgate United Methodist Church.

The National Transportation Safety Board this week released its final report of the December 2012 Sissonville natural gas pipeline rupture that blew out a 20-foot section of pipeline and ignited a huge fireball that destroyed three homes, closed Interstate 77 for a day and scared the wits out of everyone in the area.

Members of the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority say satellite recycling stations set up around the county will stop accepting plastic bottles at the end of the month.

A corroded gas pipeline that had not been inspected in more than two decades contributed to an explosion in 2012 that destroyed homes and melted a section of Interstate 77 in Sissonville, W.Va., the National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday.

The U.S. Air Force Heritage Ramblers, a six-piece Dixieland band, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday in the Riverside High School auditorium.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The 2012 rupture of a Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation natural gas pipeline in West Virginia was caused by external corrosion that could have been discovered by the pipeline operator, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Monday.

Unity of Kanawha Valley: will be home for the monthly Laughter Yoga class with Janet Prince at 10 a.m. Saturday its location, 804 Myrtle Road, corner of Bridge and Myrtle roads.

Remember former Gen. Jerry Boykin, the high-ranking Pentagon commander during the Bush administration, who said God wants Christian America to fight Muslims? Well, now he's a leader of the fundamentalist Family Research Council -- and he declared in a Texas speech that Jesus will return soon "leading a mighty army" and carrying an assault rifle.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha County sheriff's deputies say a man found dead in Sissonville this morning apparently committed suicide.

Sally Shepherd, who lost a bid Tuesday to run for Kanawha County commissioner after filing candidacy papers in the wrong office, was added Wednesday to the May primary election ballot as a candidate for House of Delegates.

Deputies said a Charleston couple was arrested after they stole a taxi and took off in the vehicle.

One northbound lane of Interstate 77 near Sissonville was closed Wednesday after a tractor-trailer reportedly jackknifed.

Sally Shepherd will not be allowed to add her name to the ballot to run for Kanawha County Commission, Circuit Judge Duke Bloom ruled this morning.

Officials with the state Public Service Commission say they need to know more about disputed bills for customers of West Virginia American Water.

Two Sissonville men are recovering in a hospital after a stabbing late Sunday night.

Sally Shepherd, a former conservation officer and unsuccessful candidate for state agriculture commissioner, wants a circuit judge to order her name be placed on the ballot for Kanawha County Commission.

Sixty mile per hour winds downed trees overnight in Kanawha County. Scattered power outages effecting thousands of people were reported in West Virginia, but most have been restored.

The South Charleston Library Board will have its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the library, 312 Fourth Ave. The agenda is available at the library.

If you have mounds of empty bottled water containers piling up, there are designated drop-off sites in Kanawha County accepting the containers.

So many people are recycling water bottles at satellite recycling bins set up around the county that members of the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority want to make the drop-off sites permanent.