Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from March 2007:
Defending champs all back for state tourney
Mar 04, 2007; ... tatkinson@wvgazette.com Cinderella probably won't get a chance to dust off her glassslippers when the girls high school basketball state tournament getsunderway this week. All three classes will be well stocked with tournament-testedteams when play begins Wednesday at the ...
Fox sounds 'Wedding Bells' as comedy-drama series debuts Wednesday
Mar 04, 2007; ... If eloping isn't in your future, "The Wedding Bells" may have awelcome ring. Much-honored television uber-producer David E. Kelley is turningfrom law shows ("Boston Legal," "The Practice," "Ally McBeal") to theworld of wedding planners with his latest series. Fox launches ...
Historic hospitality: New innkeepers welcome guests to Parkersburg B&B
Mar 04, 2007; ... julier@wvgazette.com Bob and Karen Francis were tired of working for The Man. When Boblearned that his job with Lockheed Martin in Elkins would end inJuly, Karen quit her retail job there and considered other options. A natural hostess, Karen thought the time was right for her ...
Outlet shoppers snag popular fashions at bargain-basement prices
Mar 04, 2007; ... julier@wvgazette.com MINERAL WELLS - It's kind of embarrassing when the store clerkasks you if you need help out with your four large bags of purchases.An inveterate bargain hunter, I couldn't restrain myself at theColdwater Creek outlet that recently opened in Mineral Wells, ...
SMELL THE COFFEE: The amazing grace of caregivers
Mar 04, 2007; ... Although it's been awhile since Dad and I raced, I don't doubtthat he could outrun me. I know he can outdebate me (and he'd sayoutthink me). My mom can outwalk, outtalk and outlaugh me. She's moreflexible in her 70s than I was as a teen and remembers details aboutevents that I've long ...
Redgrave making 'Magical' return to Broadway
Mar 04, 2007; ... LONDON - Vanessa Redgrave is intense - on stage, screen or living-room sofa. It can be intimidating in an interview, but it's the quality JoanDidion sought for the starring role in the Broadway adaptation of"The Year of Magical Thinking," her best-selling memoir of theaftermath ...
OUR ART
Mar 04, 2007 ... Kilgore's canvas JUNE Kilgore was nearly 40 years old and a grandmother in 1967when she went off to Pratt Institute in New York to study art. She had taken a sabbatical from Marshall University, where she wasalready teaching art to future elementary and art teachers ....
The man who would be emperor: Artist and grandnephew of Czar Nicholas pens memoir
Mar 04, 2007; ... INVERNESS, Calif. - If history hadn't gotten in the way, AndrewRomanoff could have been the emperor of Russia. But as things turned out, the mustachioed grandnephew of the ill-fated last czar spends his time painting whimsical, folk-artrenderings of his unusual upbringing in a ...
BOOK REVIEW: Daniel Mason doctors up a successful second novel
Mar 04, 2007; ... The story behind "The Piano Tuner," Daniel Mason's debut novel,has become, in itself, the stuff of fiction. Mason, who was just 26 when the highly acclaimed best-seller wasreleased, wrote the book while attending medical school in SanFrancisco. At the time, he called it a ...
the MONDAY BOOK CLUB: Readers question Milne's 'light' tone in mystery
Mar 04, 2007; ... rholbert@wvgazette.com On Monday night, readers sat down at Taylor Books to discuss theMonday Book Club's second selection in its yearlong "Mysteries, Spiesand Murder Most Foul" series, A.A. Milne's "The Red House Mystery." Milne, best known as the creator of children's ...
BOOK REVIEW: Head for the hills; Jane Smiley goes to Hollywood and gets lost in endless blather in Ten Days in the Hills
Mar 04, 2007; ... THE idea must have seemed tantalizing: a modern-day evocation of"The Decameron," Boccaccio's bawdy tale of 14th-century Florentineswho flee to the countryside to escape the plague and spend 10 daysspinning stories to one another. Jane Smiley's version is set in the Hollywood Hills ...
Coach line goes first class: Venerable bag maker finds new life as fashion icon
Mar 04, 2007; ... A TANGERINE tie-dye clutch with a rhinestone closure. A snow-white ski hobo bag with fur trim. A royal blue python satchel. This is not your mother's Coach handbag. The 65-year-old maker of sturdy leather purses is pushing intofashionable designer territory, going up against ...
Horoscope:
Mar 04, 2007; ... Sunday, March 4, 2007 Your birthday today: You're in for some big changes this year withpartnerships and your career. The journey will be difficultsometimes, so don't be unprepared. Your goal is high status, respectand good pay, doing a job you know well. To get the ...
My Vacation: Lake Oconee, Ga.
Mar 04, 2007 ... By Melody Pittman, Charleston The trip Two years ago, my family and I had a great time at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, on Lake Oconee in Greensboro,Ga., halfway between Augusta and Atlanta. Situated on a 35-acrecomplex with 81 holes of golf, the AAA 5-diamond ...
GARDEN NOTES
Mar 04, 2007 ... Film festival The South Charleston Museum will present three films about WestVirginia gardens at 7 p.m. March 10 in the LaBelle Theater, 311 D St.Bill Mills of TerraSalis will open the program with a few words onthe importance of gardening in Charleston and West Virginia ....
House show to film W.Va. segments
Mar 04, 2007 ... The Home & Garden and Fine Living television networks are comingto West Virginia in April to film segments for "What You Get for theMoney," a 30-minute show that airs on both networks. "We're looking for outgoing homeowners/design enthusiasts to sharetheir homes and their ...
Seen in a new light: Original Tiffany lamps made by women, exhibit reveals
Mar 04, 2007; ... NEW YORK - With evocative names like Wisteria, Dragonfly, Peony,Arrowhead and Peacock and their fanciful shapes of colorful leadedglass, Tiffany lamps have enchanted art lovers for more than acentury. The epitome of art nouveau, thousands of lamps were designed andhandmade in ...
DO IT YOURSELF: Programmable thermostats beneficial
Mar 04, 2007; ... Q: I have an electric heat pump system for heating and airconditioning. My understanding is that the thermostat should be setat one point and kept there for maximum efficiency. I hear a lotabout the benefits of programmable thermostats that can be set back.Should I install one of these? ...
10-gallon restoration: Ex-city resident helps update Stetson Mansion
Mar 04, 2007; ... earle@wvgazette.com IN Charleston and elsewhere, Alice Atkins McCoy has been involvedwith restoration projects in her nearly 30 years as a certifiedmaster kitchen and bath designer. Still, designing 12 bathrooms for a historical house that wasbuilt with none hasn't been ...
IN TO THE GARDEN: With good advice from experts, the future looks rosy
Mar 04, 2007; ... When I hear the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses," I wonderwhere the heck that singer lives. Certainly not at my house. My quest for roses started years ago. I planted a few, they gaveme beautiful pale pink, creamy white and crimson red blooms, Ithought I was the best rosarian - ...
Have you a house horror?
Mar 04, 2007 ... Most prospective homeowners have seen the odd avocado stove orburnt orange shag rug as they troupe through houses on the market.While it's easy enough to replace a stove or carpet, some decoratingdisasters are harder to erase. Consider the plight of an Ohiohomeowner whose bathroom walls ...
HELP OUT
Mar 04, 2007 ... Shamrocks for Muscular Dystrophy Hardee's restaurants throughout West Virginia that are owned andoperated by Restaurant Management Group are kicking-off their annualfundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association this week. Hardee's on Bigley and Pennsylvania avenues will ...
WRITE YOUR OWN COLUMN: Letting go without saying goodbye
Mar 04, 2007; ... ANOTHER one came in the mail today. It was filled with glossyphotos, bright promises and a successful future. We've gotten many ofthem over the past few months, and all of them head me down a pathI'm not sure I'm ready to tread. It's college time - the time of year when many ...
Cookies as you like them
Mar 04, 2007; ... As a child, there was nothing quite like eating chocolate-chipcookies fresh from the oven with a big glass of milk after school -or anytime I could get my hands on one. These American originals were born in 1930 when Ruth Wakefield,owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass., ...
PILLS& ILLS: Tablets digesting? You can test them
Mar 04, 2007; ... Q: I've heard that vitamins in tablet form do not digest properly.They say if you put them in a glass of water or vinegar, and theydon't dissolve in 30 minutes, they are digesting in our intestines,which means we are not getting any value from the vitamins. I work inthe holistic health ...
EAT FOR LIFE: Chicken and bean cassoulet isn't hard on your waistline
Mar 04, 2007; ... A traditional French cassoulet could never be misconstrued as dietfare. The white-bean stew made with sausages, pork and preserved duckor goose is undeniably tasty but rarely recommended for light eating.Cassoulet is also a bit of chore to prepare, requiring the duckconfit be made at ...
The Main Ingredient: Polenta, or cornmeal mush?; Traditional Italian and American foods are one and the same
Mar 04, 2007; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com tara@wvgazette.com REMEMBER cornmeal mush? Some of you guys must. If you grew up inthe southern Appalachians, until recent decades anyway, breakfast wascornmeal mush: creamy inside, fried to a buttery crisp outside, hotand dripping with maple syrup ....
Marshall breaking down barriers: for autistics with college ambitions
Mar 04, 2007; ... HUNTINGTON - The ever-increasing number of children diagnosed withautism spectrum disorders has spawned a new challenge: Parents andautistic students want improved access to college. Before the federal government mandated specialized educationalplans for autistics from ...
Fairmont a clearinghouse for researching global warming
Mar 04, 2007; ... tara@wvgazette.com A tsunami buries 230,000 residents and tourists in south Asia.Hurricane Katrina turns the Gulf Coast into a living nightmare. AlGore's movie about weather wins an Oscar and gets the nationfascinated with global warming. Suddenly, a lot more people are ...
Youth vote holds promise, often little else
Mar 04, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - Ah, youth, that fickle force in politics. Youngpeople bring energy, passion, creativity and technical wizardry tothe presidential campaign - everything, it seems, except impact onElection Day. With their Web logs, Facebook profiles and college rallies, the2008 ...
Shake-up in Iraq regime: Prime minister plans to reshuffle Cabinet
Mar 04, 2007; ... Fighting in Iraq. 7A BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he willreshuffle his Cabinet within two weeks and pursue criminal chargesagainst political figures linked to extremists as a sign of hisgovernment's resolve to restore stability during the U.S.-ledsecurity ...
South left shattered: Ravaged by tornadoes, towns in mourning and shock
Mar 04, 2007; ... ENTERPRISE, Ala. - In a sorrowful South, President Bush sawdisheartening devastation Saturday from killer tornadoes and wanderedthrough the shattered school where eight students died. "Out of devastation can come hope and a better tomorrow," he saidafter talking to teenagers ...
ALL DOWNHILL
Mar 04, 2007; ... Davis & Elkins College student Donnie MacGregor slashes down theslopes at Timberline Ski Resort in Davis during Governor's Cup Racescompetition on Saturday. The event, in its 47th year, ranks as theoldest skiing race in the South, and Timberline alternates each ...
Shopper's delight
Mar 04, 2007 ... Plenty of space and bargains at Coldwater Creek's new ...
State wins WVC title
Mar 04, 2007 ... W.Va. State 80, ...
WVU tops Cincy
Mar 04, 2007 ... Mountaineers finish off regular ...
Hamlin newsmaker
Mar 04, 2007 ... A native-son millionaire is spending money - and ...
Cherokees limit tribal citizenship 'by blood'
Mar 04, 2007; ... OKLAHOMA CITY - Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revokethe tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of thepeople the Cherokee once owned as slaves. With a majority of districts reporting, 76 percent had voted infavor of an amendment to the tribal constitution ...
Correction
Mar 04, 2007 ... In the Feb. 25 Outlook 2007 Regional Marketplace section of theSunday Gazette-Mail, an article appeared on page 29L under theheading Legal ...
West Virginia Lottery
Mar 04, 2007 ... Saturday, March 3, 2007 Daily 3 780 Daily 4 4734 Hot Lotto 8-15-19-24-27: 12 Night Pick 3 677 Night Pick 4 ...
Today's News
Mar 04, 2007 ... AP photo U.S. Marshals members of the Dodge City peace commissionof 1882 are seen in this file photo. From left, back: W.H. Harris,Luke Short and Bat Masterson. From left, front: Charles Bassett,Wyatt Earp, F. McClain and Neil Brown. In the 21st century, thenations first lawmen still ...
Police quash anti-Kremlin protest
Mar 04, 2007; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Police clubbed protesters and draggedthem into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiantdemonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President VladimirPutin's hometown. Several thousand members of liberal and leftist groups chanted"Shame!" as ...
Family-friendly military confronts growing ranks of bereaved
Mar 04, 2007; ... FORT HOOD, Texas - One of the first sights greeting visitors toFort Hood is a day-care center's playground, brightly coloredevidence of the Army's commitment to be family friendly. A few blocks away is a more poignant symbol: an office buildingrecently converted into a ...
Sitting around: Exercise balls are replacing chairs at some companies
Mar 04, 2007; ... People have searched for the perfect office chair for decades, onecomfortable, adjustable and easy on the back. Now some professionalsare abandoning chairs altogether - in favor of parking theirhindquarters on a giant rubber ball. Long used by fitness buffs and physical-therapy ...
Stolen Rockwell found in Spielberg's collection
Mar 04, 2007; ... LOS ANGELES - A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St.Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's artcollection, the FBI announced Friday. The painting, Rockwell's "Russian Schoolroom," was snatched duringa late-night burglary at a gallery in Clayton, ...
Pakistan: U.S. has no authority to cross border
Mar 04, 2007; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan vehemently denied Saturday the U.S.military's claim that coalition forces in Afghanistan have theauthority to pursue Taliban fleeing across the border into Pakistaniterritory. "There is no authorization for hot pursuit of terrorists into ...
Saudi king tries to defuse Iran's problems with talks
Mar 04, 2007; ... RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Following their first official talks inSaudi Arabia, the Iranian and Saudi leaders on Saturday pledged tofight the spread of sectarian strife in the Middle East, which theysaid was the biggest danger facing the region. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
U.S. war dead
Mar 04, 2007; ... As of Saturday, at least 3,168 members of the U.S. military havedied since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according toan Associated Press count. The British military has reported 133 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine,18; Poland, 19; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, six; El ...
Insurgents lash out at Iraqi opponents: U.S. forces hit Sunnis allied with al-Qaida
Mar 04, 2007; ... BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida-affiliated group said Saturday it killed 18kidnapped government security forces in retaliation for the allegedrape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police,posting an online video of the officers being shot in the back of thehead while kneeling in ...
BIG RIVER
Mar 04, 2007; ... High water levels on the Kanawha River cut off access to the docksat the Charleston Boat Club in Kanawha City on Saturday. The ...
E-waste recycling on rise
Mar 04, 2007; ... ROSEVILLE, Calif. - Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernousrecycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsoletePCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businessesnationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull outbatteries, circuit boards and other ...
Survivors recall 'final slam' of bus crash
Mar 04, 2007; ... ATLANTA - Tony Moore and his college baseball teammates werejolted awake when their bus slammed against a concrete barrier anddropped off an overpass. Two students were trapped, one playeralready had died and diesel fuel was leaking, survivors and familymembers said. It would be ...
Winter isn't what it used to be in New England
Mar 04, 2007; ... DANVILLE, Vt. - Jane Larrabee hadn't had to shovel snow off theroof of her cottage in three years, until a big storm socked Vermonton Valentine's Day. Maple sugar maker Burr Morse Jr. no longer predicts when the sapwill start running in his farm's 3,000 maple trees. In recent ...
Heart transplant patient conquers Andes peaks
Mar 04, 2007; ... BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - She's a climber with heart, and it's noteven her own. Kelly Perkins, a 45-year-old Californian who had a hearttransplant more than a decade ago, has added a dangerous free climbin the Andes to a string of mountaineering feats. Perkins, the first ...
Mines might get more time on selenium
Mar 04, 2007; ... kward@wvgazette.com Four years after federal regulators reported troubling levels ofselenium leaching from mountaintop removal mines in Southern WestVirginia, the Manchin administration is proposing to give dozens ofoperations three more years to stop the pollution ....
Air Force's fleet an aging threat
Mar 04, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - At a time when the nation is at war in Iraq andAfghanistan, the U.S. Air Force also is battling another enemy - age. The average age of military aircraft during the Vietnam War in1973 was nine years. Today, the average age is 24 years, andvenerable planes such as the ...
82 teams vie for '07 Iditarod title
Mar 04, 2007; ... ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Eighty-two teams and about 1,000 howling dogslined up Saturday in downtown Anchorage for the ceremonial start ofthe 35th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - the longest sled dog race inthe world. Defending champion and four-time winner Jeff King looked ...
Documented immigrants: Sales of valid identification a lesser-known problem
Mar 04, 2007; ... HARLINGEN, Texas - Asked by a federal judge why she sold her birthcertificate, Rosie Medellin said she needed a few bucks and didn'treally think it through. Bobby Joe Flores said he sold his IDdocuments to buy drugs. Margarita Moya and her son did it to raisemoney for medicine for a ...
U.S. foresees rise in greenhouse gas emissions
Mar 04, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000,increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. That projection comes from an internal draft report from the Bushadministration that is more than ...
Weather data
Mar 04, 2007 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 50 Low 36 March 3 record high 80 set in 1976 March 3 record low -2 set in 1943 Saturday's precipitation Midnight to 5 ...
State & regional weather
Mar 04, 2007 ... W.Va. Today - Monday Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs in the upper30s. Tonight, partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-20s. Monday, sunny.Highs in the mid-40s. Monday night, mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper20s. Boone, Kanawha: Today, mostly cloudy with a 40 ...
World weather
Mar 04, 2007 ... Amsterdam 46 35 Rain Athens 66 50 PCldy Baghdad 73 52 Clr Berlin 46 41 Rain Bermuda 69 57 PCldy Cairo 70 51 Clr Calgary 19 9 Snow Dublin 46 32 Rain Hong Kong 80 68 PCldy Jerusalem 66 50 PCldy London 53 33 ...
U.S. weather
Mar 04, 2007 ... Anchorage 18 1 Clr Atlanta 65 31 PCldy Boston 51 34 PCldy Charlotte, N.C. 67 32 Clr Chicago 29 21 PCldy Cincinnati 39 22 PCldy Cleveland 35 24 Cldy Dallas-Ft Worth 56 30 Clr Denver 38 17 Clr Detroit 34 21 PCldy Elkins ...
Competitor paid off Mylan, suit alleges
Mar 04, 2007; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com A lawsuit charges that Mylan Laboratories Inc. was one of fourgeneric-drug companies paid off by a brand-name drug company to delaymarketing cheaper versions of a sleep-disorder pill. The Prescription Action Litigation Project, a consumer ...
Ark. could try easier spelling
Mar 04, 2007; ... In the "Thank God for Small Favors Department" I file thefollowing: The fact that West Virginia doesn't end with an s. That's not the case in Arkansas, where a resolution has beenintroduced in the Legislature calling for the official possessiveform of the state's name to be ...