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The oldest towboat still on the waters of the Ohio-Mississippi River system, including the Kanawha River, was saved this week when it was bought by Neale Marine Transportation and Fleeting in Vienna, Wood County. The 93-year-old towboat J.S. Lewis departed Kanawha County's Port Amherst — its home port for the past 69 years — and began the journey to its new home during the week of Jan. 22, 2024.
The oldest towboat still on the waters of the Ohio-Mississippi River system, including the Kanawha River, was saved this week when it was bought by Neale Marine Transportation and Fleeting in Vienna, Wood County. The 93-year-old towboat J.S. Lewis departed Kanawha County's Port Amherst — its home port for the past 69 years — and began the journey to its new home during the week of Jan. 22, 2024.
DARRELL KEITH BUMGARNER SR., 76, of Guyandotte, W.Va., died on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at St. Mary’s Medical Center. He was preceded in death by his wife, Linda Rose Bumgarner,
The first of this month, a friend who grew up near me posted a photo on Facebook. It was a pair of work boots, a helmet and a United Mine Workers of America ballcap accompanied by a single word: RETIRED. Already? We were in the same grade all through school. He lived a couple of miles down the road from me. We rode the same school bus for nearly 12 years. Our birthdays arenât that far apart. And he was retiring? Apparently a lot of people who attended high school with me are getting old, even those one, two or three years behind me.