Sylvester News

It was nice to a oeget away from it alla for a few days recently at Virginia Beach with my daughter Gina and two of my granddaughters, Kassie and Bethany.

The tiny coalfield community of Sylvester has a one-officer police department, seven churches and about 40 street lights.

'I had a real good left hook' Chip Ellis In the front yard of his home in Sylvester, longtime Boone County political figure Johnny Protan demonstrates the left hook that helped him win dozens of boxing titles in his heyday as a fighter in the 1940s.

Several times a day, a cloud of coal dust emanates from the tipple at the Goals Preparation Plant in West Virginia as another train car receives a payload of coal bound for North Carolina.

Feb. 26, 2009 Protesters Arrested On Eve of Anniversary of Buffalo Creek Disaster Three arrested at protest above Shumate Dam on the Edwhite Mountain Top Removal Mine owned by Performance Coal Special to ...

We had a blast of winter the past week, even though winter doesna t officially arrive until Dec.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday with their family or friends. I thought for sure I would be alone but Harry and Mattie Riddle, of Sylvester, invited me to have dinner with them.