Matewan News

The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Natalie Young, and West Virginia University Extension Professor , Bill Richardson, have released the schedule of the "Hatfield and McCoy" narrated feud sites tours beginning in June and running through the middle of September.

West Virginia University Extension Professor Bill Richardson is getting ready to see the fruits of his labor materialize, as the entire nation will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the legend of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, beginning Monday, May 21.

The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce is busy finalizing their plans for the upcoming 12th annual Hatfield McCoy Reunion Festival and Marathon, to be held in downtown Williamson and Matewan, June 10th and 11th.

Staff photo/CHAD ABSHIRE Shots were fired yesterday at the annual Matewan Massacre reenactment, held in downtown Matewan in front of the UMWA Local #1440. To the right, in the white, an actor portraying Police Chief Sid Hatfield fires two handguns at actors playing the Baldwin-Felts detectives who had been sent to Matewan to evict families.

In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America had a new president: John L. Lewis.

Williamson Police Chief C.D. Rockel is placing two men wanted for drug related crimes who were indicted by the Mingo County April Grand Jury on the "Mingo's Most Wanted" list published by the Daily News.

West Virginia University Extension Professor Bill Richardson is getting ready to see the fruits of his labor materialize, as the entire nation will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the legend of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, beginning Monday, May 21.

Author Anne Black Gray's look at a member of her family is one of the source materials for an upcoming History Channel program on the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

At Wednesday's regular meeting, the Mingo County Commission voted unanimously to support the town of Matewan in their efforts to keep their rich history alive through storytelling.

So how did a felon incarcerated in a Texas prison manage to win 41 percent of the Democratic primary vote against the president of the United States? For starters, Keith Judd was either clever or lucky enough to have filed for the ballot in the heart of Appalachia's anti-Obama belt.

In what was termed a "brainstorming session," customers who are serviced by the Red Jacket sewer system met with officials to discuss what can be done to repair or replace the non-functioning system.