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Memorial Day — May 31, 2010

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Monday is Memorial Day, a day when we remember those fallen Veterans of the Armed Services.
Craig County was connected to the War between the States by many young men who took up the cause. From World War One until the Present Day, many men and women have joined up with Uncle Sam.
We have a lot of Service [...]

The “Hotel”

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Large fluffy snowflakes have been in a rush this morning to reach down and join the many inches left behind from deposits in previous weeks. Here in Craig County the accumulation has been the deepest we have seen in several years and has tried to stop us in our tracks. Some of the rural roads [...]

A Little Bit of Craig County History

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

….And it was a stately courthouse that Craig County built!
The County Justices received their commissions on April 4th and were sworn in at the first meeting on April 24, 1851. Barely into the business of running the new county, the seventeen Justices of the Peace had to turn their attention to appointing a committee to [...]