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More than just an advertisement Still Free! Inside Inside Event calendar #WVMatters Pages 12-15 INNformer Pages 6-7 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 3, No. 2 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 February 17, 2016 Coal decline affects more than mines By Charles Winslow POINT PLEASANT T wo black Norfolk Southern diesel locomotives, pulling close to 60 gray open-top hopper cars, rumble slowly over the long trestle crossing the Ohio River. Mounds of coal can be seen cresting the top of the freight cars. Below the trestle, a towboat shoves a string of coal-laden barges downriver. It’s a scene that people here have taken for granted for close to a century. Both modes of transportation are moving their loads of coal from the mines in Ohio and West Virginia to their ultimate destinations - power plants that have for decades faith- fully generated the electricity to keep Wheres that groundhog? lights on, houses heated in the win- ter, cooled in the summer, and all of the conveniences of a modern soci- ety operating. BRRRRRRRR! Guess the memo about that furry varmint weather prognosticator not seeing his shadow that was to have heralded the end of winter and the advent of an early spring didnt make News stories about the decline of it to Mother Nature, Ole Man Winter, The Iceman, Jack Frost, El Nino and the global warming coal typically focus on hard-working adherents. Barely a week later and another winter storm blankets the area, bringing an Arctic blast miners being laid off and mines clos- that sent the mercury plummeting to flirt with below zero temperatures. Then to add insult to injury it warmed and brought more snow! ing. A way of life for generations of West Virginians is on its way out. Continued on page 11 INDEX Long Reach Credit Union begins new era Familiar Face: Rev. Bill By Charles Winslow Dawson, UM Church 3-4 MIDDLEBOURNE — A ceremony 40 years in the mak- ing for Long Reach Credit Union harked back to a sim- Ohio Valley Customs 5 pler time. A short speech about its history, an invocation Paul T Farrell Jr 6-7 by a member of the Honor Guard, the Star Spangled Banner sung as the flag was raised then the Pledge of Towns water issues 8 Allegiance. With the cutting of the big blue ribbon in front of a Gas line responsibility 9 crowd on Jan. 29, the Long Reach Federal Credit Union Patrolman gets award 9 entered a new era as the 40-year old financial institution moved its headquarters from Friendly to Middlebourne Oil & gas briefs 10-11 and formally opened their newly constructed 4,000- square-foot main office on Main Street. Events 12-15 We are growing in leaps and bounds and needed more Help wanted ads 15-16 space and wanted our main operations in one location, Continued on page 9
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