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More than just an advertisement Still Free! Inside Inside Sistersville Hocus Pocus History of Fly, Ohio Page 20 INNformer Pages 16-17 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 3, No. 13 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 October 28, 2016 Documentary on ferry, Sistersville underway Film to celebrate ferry’s “First of all, I am not with PBS,” Clegg said. “I work30 minutes to 50 minutes and will be seen by most peo- in industrial videos as well as school projects and his- ple 40 years old and up.” 200 years of operation torical preservation films. But, I intend to market this documentary [on the Sistersville Ferry] to PBS.” But Clegg said he needs help from residents from West By Diane Pottorff Virginia and Ohio - old photographs of the ferry, stories Clegg’s said he began filming the boat in September and memories of adventures and different events held and plans to film it going into dry dock as well as in SISTERSVILLE – The Sistersville Ferry Board seeks on it. stories and pictures of ferries for a film project expected operation next season. He also will talk to past and to be completed by the end of the 2017 season. present crew members. “I need to do some research,” he said. “About 70 per- cent of the documentary will be on the ferry while the The film will mark the 200-year anniversary of the Charles Clegg, a documentary filmmaker, attended other 30 percent will be on Sistersville. No one has seen ferry, which was incorporated in January 1817. anything like this and this film will give the people a the monthly meeting of the ferry board to explain his project. “I love history,” Clegg said. “This film will be about Continued on page 6 Legend New methanol has it that plant slated a prisoner was forgotten for Proctor in the By Charles Winslow basement cells PROCTOR – Primus Green Energy Inc., (shown at a gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology com- right) at pany has started the permitting process Sistersville to build a new Marcellus methanol plant City Hall. at the Covestro site in Proctor, just north At least of New Martinsville. that’s one In an application filed last week with the possible West Virginia Department of Environ- reason mental Protection, Primus Green Energy for the indicated their new operation will oc- mysterious cupy up to five acres at the Covestro lo- occur- cation and will include a modular rences of methanol processing unit, three 30,000- motion gallon holding tanks as well as new load sensor out facilities for trucks and railcars. lighting coming “It’s not a 100 percent done deal yet, but on as well we have put in the permits,” George as some Boyajian, chief commercial officer for inexplica- Primus, said in an interview with the IN- ble noises. Nformer. He said he believed site work for the facility will start in the second quarter 2017 and the plant to be in oper- Haunted, historical Sistersville ation a few months after that. The cost of the facility is estimated to be have turned, it’s a good time to get to- And, like Savannah, the ’Ville has a Publisher’s note: The following are in the tens of millions of dollars. long, glorious and true history that from a collection of ghost stories being gether with friends and tell folk lore compiled for an upcoming book on the and spin yarns about ghosts and events lends itself nicely to telling tall tales. The Proctor plant will be Primus Green’s Haunted History of Sistersville. of the past. The rich history of Sis- first methanol processing unit, other than THE GHOST IN THE ALLEY By Charles Winslow tersville provides a wonderful back- a demonstrator at their New Jersey head- drop to story telling. One of the ghost stories that has made quarters. The company has announced a SISTERSVILLE – Halloween is upon its way onto the internet has to do with second commercial plant is to be con- Like Savannah, Georgia, Sistersville us once again. It’s time for the little ones has the feel of a haunted town. The oil a Union soldier, a surgeon, who is sup- structed in Alberta, Canada, and is ex- posed to have been witnessed late at to put on costumes and go trick or treat- boom Victorian-era architecture stands night walking in the alleys just up from pected to enter operations in 2018. ing, march in parades and, maybe, if they stoically as a testament to the town’s “Ours is not a new kind, but best in in- are brave enough, go through a local the river. He appears late at night and dustry,” Boyajian explained, continuing seems to be searching for something haunted house or up the haunted trails. glorious past. At night a dense fog that their design and integration sets long lost. often will suddenly engulf the now empty and quiet city streets. them apart from other developers. The As it gets dark early and the leavesContinued on page 24 Continued on page 6 INDEX Regional roundup 6 Oil & gas briefs 10 Classified ads 18 It’s my turn 3 Paden City Fall Festival 7 ELECTION GUIDE 11-15 Hocus Pocus 20 Familiar Face: Alex Northcraft 4 Bell Chevrolet 8 Fly, Ohio 16-17 Events 21-23
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