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In The Moment … February 4th, 2021 Show 985 Hour 2 Longtime sports writer Mel Antonen died on Saturday. He was a graduate of Hamlin High and Augustana College in South Dakota. He caught the reporting bug when his early stories about baseball in South Dakota were printed in local newspapers. He went on to work for 24 years at USA, writing about some of baseballs biggest games, players, and controversies.  He was well known for his radio and television broadcasting work, but he said he always considered himself a newspaperman, fingers stained with ink and memories of hometown baseball field...

Jan 29, 2021 Charles “Skip” Shannon Adkins, 71, of Shepherdstown, WV passed away Wednesday November 18, 2020 from a cardiac event while swimming in the ocean in Dominican Republic. Skip grew up in Hamlin, WV and called Shepherdstown, WV and Sarasota, FL home. He loved to travel and visited over 100 countries, covering all seven continents, including a trip to Antarctica in early 2020. Skip loved practical jokes and plastic cockroaches, air horns and creepy masks were frequently used in his pranks. He also loved vintage and sports cars, gourmet cooking and a good documentary. Skip is sur...

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FRED MILLER Scratch an Adkins from around East Liverpool (and there are quite a few) and you’ll probably find at least a second-hand connection to Chuck Yeager, legendary pilot, World War II ace and first man to fly faster than sound. Brigadier Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, a favorite son of West Virginia and a native of Hamlin, the county seat of Lincoln County, died Dec. 7 at the age of 97. My mother Lucille was an Adkins from Hamlin. She was born in 1918, so was four and a half years older than Yeager. Her younger brother Louis Sweetland Adkins, however, the same age as Yeager and ...