Hollow
February 2012
31 posts
A friend and former colleague, Zack Harold, is starting a blog to help people in Boone County, WV make informed voting decisions.
I started this site as a side project after years of frustration at the voting booth. A native Boone Countian, I’ve voted in every election since I was 18 years old. Every single time I voted, there was at least one race where I had no idea who the candidates were, what they stood for, and what they planned to do for my county. I’ve long felt guilty for not being better-informed, but I eventually realized it wasn’t all my fault. Though there are a few news outlets here in Boone County, their small staffs and small budgets don’t allow for much political coverage.
I created BooneVotes.com in an attempt to fill that gap. I want to profile every single candidate running for office this year, find out why they chose to run for office, why they believe they’re the best person for the job and what they plan to do for the county once they’re elected.
This is too critical a time in our nation, state and county to make decisions based on a party, hometown or last name.
It is pretty sad that “the story of McDowell County” in the national media is of death and illness…another reason why a community-led project like Hollow is needed.
This is the story in McDowell County, West Virginia: People are dying at younger ages, dying from a lack of care and, in many cases, from a loss of hope. Norma Jean Rose sits with her granddaughter Terri Amber Whitt, 9 in Raysal, West Virginia. Because she doesn’t work and has no savings, she often has to decide sometimes between eating and paying for her medicines. She has heart trouble, and is a diabetic.
Very interesting to hear all the contestants talk about creating a new and positive image for West Virginia.
ASHLAND - A McDowell County resort on the Hatfield McCoy Trail has earned high marks from its guests.
Ashland Resort was one of 44 campgrounds, RV parks and resorts across the country to earn an all around “A” grade in the fourth annual GuestRated™ satisfaction survey of independent parks.
This 76-site park, located on State Route 17 at Ashland, received an “A” grade in overall guest satisfaction for the year 2011. Ashland Resort, an ATV campground [www.atvresort.com] imbedded in Hatfield-McCoy’s Indian Ridge Trail System, provides direct trail access for ATV and dirt bike enthusiasts.
If you’ve noticed scruffy vagrants armed with rifles walking the streets of Hillsboro in the past week, chances are you were seeing the filming of the new movie, “Child of God”. Production began last week at the Pretty Penny Cafe and My Daughter’s Attic.
“Child of God,” based on the book with the same name by Cormac McCarthy, is about a young man, ostracized from society, who slips into a life of crime and sexual depravity while living in a cave in Tennessee.
The movie is being produced by Rabbit Bandini Productions. Producer Vince Jolivette and actor/director James Franco, of the Spiderman series and Pineapple Express, took time from their busy shooting schedule Monday to chat.
Jolivette said the tax credits are what brought the crew to West Virginia, but it’s the old-time feel of Hillsboro that cinched it. The production crew had a scout in the area for two months prior to filming to find possible locations near Lewisburg.
Mapping the earmarks Across the nation, 33 members of Congress have helped direct more than $300 million in earmarks to dozens of public projects for work in close proximity to commercial and residential real estate owned by the lawmakers or their family members.
Before designers refined a vision for automotive-era service stations, they toyed with tudor and oriental styles, now historical. This tudor station at Bramwell, W.Va., is an excellent example. If your West Virginia community is gifted with such structures, please let me know through Facebook or by emailing your information to dsibray@gmail.com.
