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Murder suspect held on bond
Noal D. Quattlebaum
July 24, 2008
MARIETTA — Just two months ago, Amber Wesley sat at a witness stand in a domestic violence case against the man now charged with her murder.
But between the April 27 incident and the May 28 preliminary hearing, Wesley’s account of the abuse had changed substantially. The new account led to charges being dismissed against Noal D. Quattlebaum.
Prosecutors say it wasn’t the first time Wesley, 21, of 85 Lang Farm Road, Marietta, had recanted a statement to police concerning altercations with Quattlebaum.
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TitleTown campaign receives a boost
July 24, 2008
PARKERSBURG, Iowa — An Iowa city demolished by a tornado and helped by the benevolence of residents from Parkersburg is encouraging everyone to vote for Parkersburg for ESPN’s TitleTown USA.
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Pro baseball returning to the MOV?
July 24, 2008
PARKERSBURG — Is professional baseball returning to the Mid-Ohio Valley? It’s a definite maybe.
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Draper to be sentenced in September
July 24, 2008
PARKERSBURG — A man who pleaded guilty in connection with a 2006 bank robbery was in court for a hearing regarding his return from a youthful offenders program.
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Thu, July 17, 2008 @ 10:25AM
Is nothing sacred? There is news out of Hollywood this morning about film director/producer Rob Cohen having nabbed the rights to remake the 80s children's horror flick "Monster Squad." The movie - about a group of early teens who join forces with Frankenstein's Monster to stop Dracula, the Wolf Man and a mummy to save the world - has become a cult classic. It didn't do well at all in theaters, but as children of the era (myself included) have grown into adulthood, the film has gained in popularity. Just this past September it was released on DVD for the first time. I was one of the first to own it (thanks to a friend) and immediately began loaning the disk out to co-workers. If remade, "Monster Squad" will join the list of movies from my childhood to be ruined by Hollywood's lack of imagination. "Lost Boys: the Tribe," a sequel to "The Lost Boys," is due to be released direct to DVD later this month with less than stellar expectations.
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Can't run 13.1 miles?? Try 2 instead
Thu, July 10, 2008 @ 9:04AM
Want to be a part of race weekend and running 13.1 miles is absolutely out of question for you? Want to try something a little bit more practical for your fitness level? Consider running or walking in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel Two-Mile Race. This race is great if you are trying to set a personal record, testing your summer training, or a high school or college team looking to get some race experience before the season starts. Most participants are a part of a team from work, or a group of friends who work all summer long to better their health.
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Goodbye 600 Starbucks
Wed, July 2, 2008 @ 1:56PM
Starbucks has announced it will be closing 600 stores and cutting 7 percent of the workforce, about 12,000 full-time and part-time jobs. I'm not surprised. Starbucks has been advertising recently - they have basically never advertised before because they have not needed too. Word of mouth got them enough business to expand. While I have never been in favor of purchasing $4 cups of coffee daily, many people disagreed with me. Until gasoline became $4 a gallon. I think that $4 morning indulgence is only the first thing people are going to cut out of the daily budget.
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Crime more noticeable than billboard?
Wed, July 23, 2008 @ 7:24AM
Readers in the past two days have blogged our story about Keith Burdette, president of the Wood County Development Authority, complaining about a billboard by Hino Motors in Williamstown urging Japanese investment at a Washington County industrial park. Maybe the Japanese are more concerned with the Washinton County man charged with killing his girlfriend and another Washington County man charged with stabbing an ex-girlfriend, both occurring on Tuesday, than they are of the billboard.
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Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee
Mon, July 21, 2008 @ 9:45AM
A thought-provoking book for any age, not just young-adult readers is Suzanne Supplee's "Artichoke's Heart." Rosemary Goode is an unassuming girl whose mother owns the local beauty parlor and wants to keep a low profile from the schoolás mean girls, The Bluebirds, who have tortured Rosemary for years about her weight, calling her Artichoke after she wore green. The Bluebirds aren't the only ones remarking on her weight. Her aunt and mother buy her an expensive treadmill and tickets to a diet show. Rosemary doesn't like being overweight but doesn't like to be reminded of it either. She'd rather daydream about cute football player Kyle. But he'd never pay attention to her except to tease her, would he? When one of her mother's customers has a massive heart attack due to her weight, Rosemary begins to take a second look at losing the weight.
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Another write in candidate?
Wed, July 23, 2008 @ 10:12AM
It looks like the race for the Parkersburg City Council will include another write-in candidate. At the end of May, District 4 incumbent Jim Myers filed to run as a write-in candidate in the November election. Myer lost in the Democratic primary to Steven Whitehair. Following Tuesday's council meeting, District 9 representative Demo Dukas called over Sherry Dugan. Dugan defeated Dukas, and two other candidates, in the Democratic primary. Dukas told Dugan he was considering running against her in the general election as a write in. Dugan said she appreciated the heads up. When I asked Dukas if he was going to run as a write in, he told me the same thing. "I'm giving it serious consideration," he said. "Serious consideration." Dukas has until Aug. 29th decide. Dukas lost by 21 votes to Dugan, a former one-term (1990-94) council person.
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Lewis Wetzel Chronicles
Thu, July 10, 2008 @ 11:00AM
In the late 1700s, Indians could attack settlements in present day West Virginia, burn some cabins, kidnap some people, steal some stuff, and feel safe once they crossed the Ohio River. Before Lewis Wetzel, that is. When Lewis was a young man, he was a likeable enough fellow to have around. The older he got, however, the crazier he got and with each passing year he became more eccentric. He had tassels hanging from his split earlobes. He grew his hair down to his knees so that any Indian who took his scalp would have a scalp worth the extra effort it would take to kill him. Everybody knew he was a nut, but folks were glad to have him around. Wetzel was a scout during Virginia Col. Daniel Brodhead's campaign against the Delaware on the Muskingum River in 1781. General George Washington himself had ordered the expedition to maintain some control over the Ohio River while the Continental Army fought the British farther east.
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Tags make pages easier to find
Sat, July 5, 2008 @ 9:42AM
Nearly every person on the planet has now used a search engine. For most that means they go to Google and type in a few key words and what they are looking for pops up. The magic behind returning exactly what you are looking for has made Google billions and has spawned the new "science" of search engine optimization. If you operate a Web site you try very hard to supply the search engine what it wants. Google uses some 200 factors when rating sites, exactly how they use them remains a trade secret. Tons of books, articles, and web pages have been written to offer tips on how to make pages more search engine friendly. It boils down though, to having good content and then letting the search engines index the site. A good web site helps this task out by having special tags on a site.
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Using every penny
Tue, July 22, 2008 @ 8:57AM
Back in May my daughter gave me a BP gasoline card for my birthday. I used it a couple of times, dropping its value down to 43 cents, which I just couldn't sqeeze into the tank on the last fillup. Well, being the frugal person I am, I was not about to let BP make an extra 43 cents off me. On Sunday my wife and I had to do a little shopping and she jokingly suggested we stop at a BP station and use the last of the gas card. We both laughed about getting a tenth of a gallon of gasoline, which probably would only take us a couple of miles. As I pumped the last 43 cents from the card into the tank, the man on the other side of the gas pump was laughing along with us about the meager amount of gasoline we were getting, compared to the $80-$100 he was putting into the tank of his SUV that got about 15 miles a gallon, he lamented.
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