This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Nov. 6, 2013. NELLIS, W.Va. — William Gunnoe noticed his safety lamp had stopped burning. Gunnoe, a section foreman at the Nellis No. 3 Mine in the Boone County with 19 years’ experience, knew…
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Oct. 28, 2014. A little more than six weeks after it went on the air, Charleston’s first community radio station is nothing but static. The community radio station collapsed in a heap of dysfunction….
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Oct. 22, 2014. MAN — Drive down Main Street, and it’s easy to tell what people in this small Logan County town have on their minds. Painted bedsheets and poster boards hang on fences…
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Oct. 14, 2014. If you watch reality shows like the History Channel’s “Appalachian Outlaws” or the National Geographic Channel’s “Smokey Mountain Money,” you know hunting ginseng is a dangerous business of greed and guns….
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — History doesn’t have much to say about Roosevelt Singleton. We do not know where he was born or where he lived before moving to Gauley Bridge to…
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. “Live it” has become a mantra for Charleston blues-rock duo Farnsworth. It’s the name of group’s first full-length album, which will be released this Saturday. But “Live it” is also…
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on June 19, 2014. Bryan Boyd remembers everything about the last gig he played with Derick Kirk. Boyd had booked a gig at Soho’s at the Capitol Market and asked Kirk to come along and…
This story was originally published Nov. 29, 2011 in the Charleston Daily Mail. It won second place in the news feature category of the 2012 West Virginia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Morale is running low in the Occupy Charleston camp. The protesters are cold and…
This story was originally published April 26, 2012 in the Charleston Daily Mail. It was co-written with Jared Hunt, and won second place in the “best written news story” category of the 2013 West Virginia Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. It was a Friday evening…
This story was originally published May 23, 2012 in the Charleston Daily Mail. MINNEHAHA SPRINGS – High on a Pocahontas County ridge, a natural spring spits out 20 gallons of water each minute. It runs down the mountain through a mile of pipe, supplying water…