Displaced furniture workers harvest more than 5,000 fish every day from this farm near Martinsville Speedway. They pump them into white tanks that -- like some of the chairs they used to assemble -- are hauled in 18-wheeler trucks to buyers in Washington, Toronto and points in between.
Gary "Lt. Dan" Sinise has some soul in his bones. He's got some pop, rock and hillbilly in there, too. Bass guitar-pumping Sinise and the rest of his Lt. Dan Band cooked up a little bit of it all Thursday night at the Blue Mountain Festival Grounds, near Martinsville. They rocked, rolled, funked and honky-tonked for a crowd estimated at 2,000, gathered to help their wounded Marine neighbor get a specially designed house by the Ararat River.
WHEELING - Ethane produced from the Marcellus Shale continues to be a hot commodity, as Range Resources now plans to send much of the natural gas liquid it produces to Canada for cracking. As Bayer Corp. officials continue to entice companies like Royal Dutch Shell to build a multi-billion-dollar Mountain State ethane cracker plant in the Charleston area or near New Martinsville, acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is "somewhat confident" the state will attract two ethane crackers. Yet another company is planning to send its locally produced ethane out of the country.
MORGANTOWN - The federal Environmental Protection Agency says a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy has promised to restore four northern West Virginia streams it filled illegally while building roads and laying pipeline for Marcellus Shale gas drilling projects. EPA spokeswoman Donna Heron confirmed Monday that federal inspectors cited Chesapeake Appalachia LLC after four site visits this fall in Wetzel and Marshall counties. In one case, inspectors found that Blake Fork stream and a picturesque waterfall near New Martinsville had been completely filled with gravel for a road.
Three boys have been charged with intentionally derailing a Norfolk Southern Corp. locomotive near Martinsville Speedway over the weekend, according to officials. After an investigation and a Crime Stopper tip, the boys -- 12, 13 and 14 years old -- were charged with obstructing or injuring canal, railroad, power line, etc., said Henry County Sheriff's Office Lt. Ricky Walker.
PPG Industries Inc., the world's fourth-biggest maker of caustic soda, declared force majeure on North American deliveries of the chemical used to make pulp, alumina and soap because of a factory shutdown. PPG's Natrium plant near New Martinsville, W.Va., has a mechanical problem, Jeremy Neuhart, a spokesman, said Wednesday. The plant, which makes chlorine and caustic, known collectively as chlor- alkali, probably will be down for a "short" period, he said.
A gaggle of fine musicians is gathering this weekend at the Blue Mountain Festival site, near Martinsville, to pay tribute to one of their own. Mike Calhoon was a drummer from Northside High School who was diagnosed with leukemia at the end of his junior year. Some of his musical friends put together a benefit that summer at Northside's football stadium, and raised almost $10,000 for Calhoon's treatments, said his onetime bandmate, Terry Peters. But Calhoon died the following spring.
Gary Crenshaw doesn't expect any change in travel plans for the 100 teams that will race this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Tara Field at the Clayton County Airport is bracing for as many as 180 corporate and private airplanes this week as NASCAR continues its traveling show after a plane crash Sunday near Martinsville Speedway left 10 dead.
The Henry County Sheriff's Office is looking for a convicted felon suspected of killing another man Friday night after an argument. Timothy Montrell Jones, 24, is accused of firing a rifle at Anthony Tyrone Hayden, 37, near Liza Court in Martinsville, according to a news release from the Henry County Sheriff's Office.
A pedestrian died when she was hit by a vehicle on U.S. 220 in Henry County on Friday afternoon, according to state police. Dayna Marie Harris, 24, of Axton was driving north on U.S. 220 near Tensbury Drive in Martinsville when a stack of papers flew out of her car about 1:30 p.m. She parked to retrieve them, walked into the highway and was struck by a vehicle, said Sgt. Rob Carpentieri, spokesman for Virginia State Police.
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