Oceana News

The Oxyana trailer opens with people saying , what's happening here isn't normal.

We've never understood why so many, many younger West Virginians are compelled to wreck their lives and their futures through dope.

The film "Oxyana" takes a look at the drug problems facing the community of Oceana in Wyoming County.

Residents of Oceana, a town of 1,400 people in Wyoming County, don't deny the community has a drug problem.

Kennie Bass Web Producer: Heath Harrison Reported: May. 9, 2013 8:47 PM EDT Updated: May.

Oceana is a misnomer, a small town at the confluence of the Clear Fork and Laurel Fork rivers in the mountains of southern West Virginia, some 400 miles from the nearest ocean.

"Our community is filled with people who work hard, who are educated, who play in that town, work in that town and do what they can do to make it a better town," Denny Morgan said on Tuesday's MetroNews Talkline.

At New York's Tribeca Film Festival, viewers saw a horrifying documentary showing how painkiller addiction wrecked an Appalachian town, after the coal industry faded.

Civil War General Robert E. Lee will be portrayed by Al Stone of Hinton at Wyoming County Civil War Days in Oceana, on Saturday, May 11, at 2 p.m. As commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee gained the reputation as one of the most audacious military leaders the U.S. ever produced while also endearing himself to leaders and common folk of ... (more)

Each year the Independent Film Festival Boston brings to New England an exciting program of films, panels, and parties.

You don't feel good after watching the documentary Oxyana , about a small town in West Virginia that's been plagued by drug addiction.

Civil War General Robert E. Lee will be portrayed by Al Stone of Hinton at Wyoming County Civil War Days in Oceana, on Saturday, May 11, at 3 p.m. As commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee gained the reputation as one of the most audacious military leaders the U.S. ever produced while also endearing himself to leaders and common folk of ... (more)