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Burlington United Methodist Family Services will have live music, food vendors and crafters for the ribbon cutting and dedication of their new Apple Harvest Auxiliary Building on Saturday, June 16, from noon - 6 p.m. Attendees will be able to tour the new facility and view memorabilia from previous Apple Harvest Festivals. Apple butter will not be available at this event. Cindy Pyles may be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for vendor information.

Colton B Watts earned a degree of Bachelor of Music Education (Pre K-adult) at Glenville State University on May 7.

He is the son of Chris and Janet Watts of Maysville and was a 2016 graduate of Petersburg High School.

Alexis Sherene Evans, daughter of Tom and Debbie Turner and granddaughter of Boyd and Leta Kimble of Franklin, graduated from West Virginia University College of Law on Friday, May 13, earning her Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree.

She was a member of the Lugar Trial Association during law school. She celebrated the day with her parents, husband and stepdaughter.

By Ravenna Redman Director of Social Services

The employees of GRCC have chosen Ralph Dolly as our resident of the week.

Ralph has been a resident of our facility since Feb. 2. He was born on Sept. 16, 1940, in Dolly Town, W.Va., to George Washington Dolly and Nida Mae Dolly. He was the middle child of 14 - Henry Dolly, Ruby McConnell, Mernie Shultz, Mary Dolly, Betty Dove, Walter Dolly, Eula Mae McConnell, Joy Davy, Katherine Dent, Jo Ann Rohrbaugh, Ruthlene Funkhouser and Carl Dolly. Ralph still has one brother and four sisters living.

When asked about going to school, he stated, “I only had one year of high school, and could not afford any more.” Ralph went straight to work. He stated that he had a variety of jobs: he drove a truck and worked for an orchard and worked at Hester’s in Moorefield for almost two years. Most of the time though, he worked at a sawmill - Kessel Lumber Company for 33 years, and then Terry’s Mechanic Shop, with his son. He retired from full-time working when he was 62 years old in 2002. He said he was ready to retire.

Petersburg native Forest “Jack” Bowman has been awarded a bronze medal for his novel, “All Our Yesterdays” by Global Book Awards, an organization that recognizes talent in self publishing.

The award was made in the psychological thriller category and, by happy chance, was announced on April 15, Bowman’s 84th birthday.

“All Our Yesterdays” is the story of an under-sized orphan living in a small town similar to Petersburg in the early 1900s, who is horribly mistreated by two brutal brothers and their powerful protectors.

When it becomes clear that the novel’s hero cannot get justice in any reasonably normal way, the reader watches as the mistreated orphan fashions a stunning and hair-raising revenge.

 May 11th

Team 1: Jerry Simmons, Mike McDowell, Ben Fout, Dave Campbell and Don Baker; -12.

Team 2: Phil Vance, Larry Taylor, Charlie Combs and Dave Burton; -10; onehole cardoff.

Team 3: Johnny garza, Terry Kesner, Jim Tompkins and Bob Hyson; -10.

Pin Winners: #3 Terry Kesner; #6 Jerry Simmons; #13 Dave Boland; #15 Bob Hyson; #17 Jim Burton.

MEN’S NIGHT

May 12th

Winners: George Ford, Don Baker, Jacob Fisher and Jake Sager (-7) on the back 9.

Pin Winners: #13 - Clayton Burdoch, #15 - Jcob Fisher, #17 - Jim Tompkins.

The application deadline for the 2024 nursing cohort at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is 4:30 p.m. on June 1.

An application to the college must be completed as well as a separate nursing program application. Program admission requirements are available on the college website at https://easternwv.edu/academics/nursing-program.

Thirty-five graduates participated in Eastern’s graduation ceremony on May 7. First row: Tricia Poe, Melissa Walker, Kelsey Harper, Krista Thorn, Taylor Martin, Ashleigh Kimble, Chelsey Santiago, Allison Barr, Jennifer Sunryder, Marissa Simmons, Emily Stark, Victor Walker; second row: Emily Trail, Shana Price, Stacey Hose, Audrey Helman, Jessica Helman, Ashley Tilley, Ashley Riggleman, Tina Crites, Stacy Redmon, Adonica Keplinger, Jon Hof, Paula Bergdoll, Sierra McCaslin, Jordan Mongold, President Thomas Striplin, Ed.D.; back row: James Alt, Vanessa Hinger, Shayla Hartman, Hannah Merritt, Austin Locklear, Crystal Goodwater, Trenton Warner, Isaiah Smith, and Carmen Ketterman.

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College honored 80 students as fall 2021 and spring 2022 graduates at the college’s commencement ceremony May 7, in Moorefield.

Thirty-five of the graduates participated in the ceremony, including all 14 graduates of the 2022 nursing program cohort. The nursing graduates had participated in the nursing program’s Pinning Ceremony the night before, where Kari Evans of Grant Memorial Hospital had served as keynote speaker.