The Fayette Tribune

12/30/2024

Make Art Monday! Celebrate your love of nature and parks by making art inspired by a plant today. Creating art in 3-D is another way to show depth in art.

Area students can share their art by entering the Youth Arts in the Park (YAP) 2025 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. See 2025 contest rules and link to online entry platform at https://www.nps.gov/neri/youth-arts-in-the-parks.htm. Art: 2018 YAP Best in Show, Flame Azalea by Anna Ide, 9th grade, Midland Trail High, Fayette County.

12/30/2024

Staff, volunteers serve up special Christmas meal for shelter animals
Fayette County Humane Society Fayette County Commission - WV

The King James Version of Proverbs 12:10 in the Bible reads, in part: “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.”

12/30/2024

New Fayette County sheriff to take oath of office
Fayette County Commission - WV

There’s no place like home, says Jess McMullen.

12/30/2024

Auditions for the Spring Musical are this Thursday January 2 at 6 PM and Saturday January 4 at 10 AM. Multiple roles for ages 13 and up. You will be required to read a short excerpt from the script and sing a song. Please share.

12/30/2024

Start your 2025 off on the right foot with a volunteer led First Day Hike! Join Community Captains Jacki and Jack for a hike on the beautiful New River Gorge Kaymoor Trail.

The hike will be at 11am on January 1st, meeting at the trailhead on Fayette Station Road.

Join the Facebook event or visit our website calendar for more details.

Facebook event: https://rpb.li/cDp
Website calendar: https://rpb.li/nQu1s

12/26/2024

High school teams busy as holidays arrive
Oak Hill High School OHHS Devils Den Midland Trail Lady Patriots Basketball Midland Trail High School The Hico Psychos Meadow Bridge High School The Wildcat Den

Below is a roundup of recent high school basketball games taken from information supplied to The Fayette Tribune:

12/26/2024

Fayetteville girls topple Valley
Fayetteville PK-8 Valley PK-8

In a girls middle school basketball game on Dec. 19, host Fayetteville PK-8 toppled Valley 46-9.

12/26/2024

Case column: All on a Christmas morning
Guns and Cornbread Larry Case West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

The kid stood and shivered in the snow. There wasn’t much snow on the ground, just enough to get some on the toes of his cheap boots. This made it

12/26/2024

National park stewardship is an ongoing necessity
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve Friends of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve NRAC

Stewardship of national parks can include tasks ranging from helping provide a financial stream of support to people cleaning up local trails and streams as they depart the region after

12/26/2024

Follow new trails into 2025
Oak Hill Info Fayette Trail Coalition Wolf Creek Park Fayette County Parks & Recreation Town of Fayetteville, WV

The trail system at Needleseye Park got a huge boost in 2024 and is poised to offer locals and visitors alike more recreational opportunities in the coming year.

12/26/2024

Former Fayette County police officer sentenced to 25 years for the s*x trafficking of a minor
Larry Allen Clay Jr. was arrested in 2021 for forcing a 17-year-old girl to have s*x with him for money
West Virginia Watch

A former Fayette County, West Virginia law enforcement officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for s*x trafficking a 17-year-old girl and attempting to use his position of

12/26/2024

WV Hive recognizes entrepreneurship at annual event
WV Hive New River Gorge Regional Development Authority Wild Blue Adventure Company https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556966801590

BECKLEY — Bill Woodrum, senior program officer at the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, delivered keynote remarks, and 12 awardees were recognized at the West Virginia Hive’s annual open house and