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From: donna hinkle
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: Editor- thank you for article
Dear Editor, 
Thank you so much for printing the article about Friends for Life this past Saturday, December 29th.  I was excited to see that it was on the front page!  We've already gotten a call from someone wanting to donate, and another call from a potential dog walker.  The most exciting result was that a Beckley tv station called after seeing the article and did an interview yesterday (Jan. 1), and it aired last night at 6 pm.  We don't get the station, but I heard it was pretty good.  If the article hadn't been on the front page, they may not have thought it would be newsworthy.
 
I appreciate any help we can get to try to get more people interested in our animals at Friends for Life and in the organization itself.  I have a big dream that will take more than a few people to accomplish!  Thanks for your help!
 
Sincerely, 
Donna Jo Hinkle 

Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: Hello From South Carolina

My Name is William Wallace and I grew up in Ronceverte from 1944 to 1961 when I joined the Army.
I grew up on Fort Springs Road, and Used to walk to Ronceverte (3 Miles) with My Grandfather Leroy Hoke.

If you Remember me, My Name was Mickey and I went to Greenbrier High.  I quit in my Junior year and Joined the Army and when My Class Graduated I was in Korea.  I finished High School in the Army in 1964 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and had High Scores that The State of West Virginia gave me A State Diploma.

I also Served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1968 and also Overseas in Panama. I Retired in 1984 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia where I also took Classes in College at Northern Virginia Community College.

If you Know me and wish to E-Mail me you can Reach me at wwal963055@aol.com.

Take Care and Good Luck to all.

William (Mickey) Wallace

5355 Alcott Drive
Wedgefield, SC 29168

 

----- Original Message -----
From: John Workman 
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:13 AM
Subject: THANKS
   I enjoy reading the Mountain Messenger on your web site, it is about all the news I get from home, I was born in Auto W.Va.I was raised in White Sulphur.Springs and have lived in Lynchburg Va. the last 40 years. I miss all the people there so this is a way I can keep up with some news.  Thanks again, John Workman Lynchburg Va.


----- Original Message -----
From: Dreama Poe
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: good reading
 
Michael Showell----I'm enjoying reading the Mountain Messinger pages. Well done! I have ancestors named Pitsenbarger and while seeking info this page comes up. I think  it's because of an obit containing that surname. Keep doing good work.Saying hello from, Holyoke, Colorado (via Oak Hill, West Virginia).

 ----- Original Message -----
From: brian
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: paper
I just want to say I love WEST VIRGINIA and love your paper I am from Canada I have found you are the most wonderful people I have ever met you have a lot to be proud of.


----- Original Message -----
From: Awesom253@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: MANY YEARS HAS PASSED

I LOOK FORWARD TO READING YOUR NEWPAPER   I HAVE SEEN ALOT OF PEOPLE
I KNOW THAT HAVE DIED.
 
I HAVE JUST ORDERED MY TOMBSTONE FOR THE CEMETERY IN RIVERVIEW IN
RONCEVERTE.  I WILL BE CREMATED BUT MY ASHES WILL BE IN RONCEVERTE
MY WIFE DIED IN 1994 AND SHE IS BURIED IN LEWISBURG IN HER FAMILY PLOT
 
I COME OVER EVERY AUGUST FOR WHAT I CALL GRAVEYARD DAY AND PUT
FLOWERS ON ALL OF MY FAMILY PLOTS.  I AM GLAD YOU ARE ON LINE SO
I CAN KEEP UP THE PROGRESS OF RONCEVERTE
 
DON J MORRIS
ROANOKE VIRGINIA
----- Original Message -----
From: Plgrm16204U@aol.com
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 6:50 PM
Subject: Ramp withdrawal

I grew up in Charmco and graduated from Rupert High School.(1954)
Living here in Florida I am attacked by some strange malady each year at this time. 
I have ramp withdrawal. Is there a cure other than coming to W. Va. and getting some ramps? 
 
Seriously, I love your paper. It keeps me connected. I will be coming to
W. Va. for the reunion of our high school the last week in June My cousin has assured me that she has some ramps in her freezer just for me. She is the
"Queen of Smoot."
 
Rev. Fred Neal
131 Lower Lake Court
DeBary, Florida 32713

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheol Sheol"
To: <ads@mountainmessenger.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: feedback

We live in Alderson and I for one, am very glad to see locals making use of  the web. Your site is one of the best I have seen, and since I also maintain  one, I know how hard it can be. Our families from all states are able to go  to MM and read the news, obits, etc, when other papers in the WV area are  inaccessible. Thank you for the good work!
 
Janet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lori Turner 
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com  
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:32 AM 
Subject: Feedback

While I live in the area, I never find time to read the paper. So I enjoy your synopsis online.  Once I got used to the fact you only update once a week,  I got  over the frustration of it appearing to always be the "same old news."  It appears this happens on Tuesday morning sometime.  I'm not much for sound on my computer and the constant audio beeps and alerts, so I have my sound turned off unless specifically downloading music I wish to hear.  While I think this offers a solution for the "complaints" that were posted from others on your feedback website, I do still have a question.  Why is it sometimes the obituaries get updated with your weekly web posting and sometimes they do not?  Enjoy your site, either way. 

Thanks,
Lori Turner
Organ Cave

From:Vicki Lonie
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:22 PM
Subject: Wonderful on-line paper

I was raised in Fayette County and now live out of state. One of my hobbies is genealogy so each trip home to the mountains of West Virginia I try to visit the Courthouses and some of the cemeteries of Fayette, Nicholas and Greenbrier counties to gather data on past family members. Your paper's obituary column is a wonderful on-going, weekly resource for me. I was wondering if you have the obituaries achieved online. If so, how can I access them?

Also, I wanted to tell you what a wonderful layout you have on your website. Very professional - one of the best looking that I have seen and very user friendly. Keep up the great work.

Vicki

From: RICHARD BURNS
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Story of Son of Confederate Soldier

I especially enjoyed this story and would like to see more subject material pertaining to past history of the area and its residents.  My great-great grandfather Calvin Green Meadows was a member of Edgar”s Battalion.

Sandra Meadows Burns

From: Wr1959@aol.com
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: postcards

Hello Greenbrier County readers:

I am a retired teacher living in Anderson, Indiana.  I am your Virginia cousin.  I grew up in Norton (Wise County), came to Indiana to college and stayed here to teach. I am an avid postcard collector since I retired, and am seeking postcards of your area.  I especially collect city and town view cards, and am seeking one of White Sulphur Springs, one of Lewisville, and one of the Greenbrier resort.  I prefer modern cards, but will also be pleased to receive older ones.  I also welcome cards from anyone who is near or far away who reads this web site.  Thanks for your help.

Walton A. Carter,
4740 W. 300 South,
Anderson, IN 46011

 


From: Julie Kay Smithson
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:12 PM
Subject: Feedback - West Virginia Mountain Messenger

I only just discovered your website -- www.mountainmessenger.com -- and thank  you for allowing your readers this chance to comment. Please keep my email  address and website URL with this comment.

There are two articles at your online edition that I must comment on, regarding the Scenic Byway status and the conservation easements being 'sold' to folks. Please, PLEASE, folks, visit my website -- www.PropertyRightsResearch.org -- and scroll down the left side of the Home  Page, where everything is arranged alphabetically. Click on the Conservation  Easements button! Click on the Articles button, then click on West
Virginia!  Do a site-specific search at the Home Page and put 'scenic byway' in the search box!  All is NOT what its being portrayed by these slick sales pitches! My website has 3,000 pages of verified facts, free for the education. Please visit today and bookmark for return visits if you like my efforts, please tell many others -- we who own homes, or farms, or like to fish, or like to eat, or  drink fresh water, or travel in a car -- are all in this together. Please,  visit and read!

 Julie Kay Smithson, London, Ohio

 http://www.PropertyRightsResearch.org

----- Original Message ----- 
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com 
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: Please tell me "Where"

Would you please tell me where in Western Greenbrier County the proposed electric generation plant would be located? I ask this in reference to the article by David Cottrill on the front page of the August 31 Mountain Messenger. Maybe that article tells me the answer but I am still missing it after reading the article many times.

I enjoyed reading your paper and am happy at any progress for my native County and State. I was born and lived in Rainelle until I went to Berea College in Kentucky. I came home September 7, for a raft trip on the Gauley River.

I believe your paper is among those I advertised in recently in my ongoing effort to find and buy an older Martin Guitar. 

Thanks for a good paper and for this minor bit of information.

Galen Martin 

----- Original Message -----
To: <ads@mountainmessenger.com>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:58 AM
Subject: Music on Webb site


Just found your webb site. Love the music Borned and
raised at Rainelle, will continue to visit site just to listen
to the music and do a some reading

Douglas C. Pack

----- Original Message ----- 
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com 
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:57 PM
Subject: In touch

Thank you for being on the Web. It gives me the opportunity to keep in touch with my birthplace, White Sulphur Springs. Susanne Maffioli of Florida 

From: Eddie Teems 
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: When I visited Lewisburg WV.

My name is Eddie Teems, I had the pleasure of staying in Lewisburg on Feb,13. I stayed at the Brier Inn, as I left your city on Thursday the 14th I drove on to hwy 219 north. I went about 100 yards when a police officer pulled me over, for speeding. I stopped and was informed that I was doing 46 mph in a 35 zone, which I disagree. The officer wanted to be a nice guy, I guess and wrote me a citation for not using my seat belt, which I was. I stayed at a local motel, bought gasoline at the local Exxon, shopped at the Wal mart, ate at Hardee's and paid taxes on each of these transactions, but that was not enough. I now have to pay 25.00, for nothing more than being there. The officer is John W. something, citation number 15500. I will send the 25.00, but I feel that is unjust to be forced to pay black mail to a local government. The officer said the speeding fine was over 100.00, and I had a choice, of speeding or seat belt citation.

--- Eddie Teems
--- holston08@earthlink.net
--- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.

Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:37 AM
Subject: The music

I would just like to say that the music is great. I am a huge Steel Pterodactyl fan and was thoroughly surprised to hear it.

From:  Frank Samples
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: Always Looking for News of Home

I was born and reared in Raleigh County, went to Concord. I now live in California and have been gone since 52. I still miss WVA. I am a descendent of Mose Shuck and Daniel Fink. The Fleshmans and others are my relatives. I was in Greenbrier County last year when my high school had its 50th reunion.I went down the Blue Springs Road and saw the home of Mose Shuck built in 1804. It is still standing. Take care. Frank Samples

From: "Donna Toney" 
To: <access@mountainmessenger.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: terrific sight

 Nice web site! great fun. Thanks

From: "Brown, Alex" <Alex.Brown@sesameworkshop.org>

To: <ads@mountainmessenger.com>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: Great Job

I was raised in Ronceverte, but currently live in New York City. Thanks
to the Internet and your website, I almost feel like I'm home again!! It's
so comforting to know that I can escape from all the NY "hustle & bustle" and
sneak back to the place where I grew up (Greenbrier County). Now I don't
have to be "homesick" any more.

Sonny Brown
 GEHS Class of 1971

From: "Anita Elam" <poetry6@earthlink.net>
To: <ads@mountainmessenger.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:34 PM


I left Renick, WV when I graduated GEHS in 1979 to join the Navy,but it's good to
read about home. :o) I'm in Collierville, TN now, just a little
bit farther south. Just wanted to say hi to all the fellow Mountaineers.Anita (Reinholt) Elam
GEHS class of '79 poetry6@earthlink.net

Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:07 PM

Subject: Feedback...

Just a quick note to tell you I visited your site looking for information on Alderson for a friend, and was so impressed with the layout, design, information (especially on the Free or Low Cost Prescription Drugs), and the music.  Quite novel and creative.  I am a Resource Developer at the Rescue Mission of El Paso, and the info on Prescriptions will be most helpful for our homeless clientele.  I plan to send for it tomorrow first thing.  Once again, was very impressed with what you've put together and for sure, I will be visiting again simply to see what new info is there....and listen to the music.

JAMES R. ROSS

P.S.  Have a great day to you and your staff, from me and my staff.

Subject: Music ??????
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:57:17 EST
From: Bret Stephens
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu

Dear Mike:

      We are going to operate a miniature railroad for kids of all ages. I really like the train music on your web site. Would you be so kind as to tell me where I can get a copy? I would GREATLY appreciate your help!

Sincerely,
Bret Stephens

From: woods wolf
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:20 AM

online edition: the music is irritating.

"there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the path" morpheus in the matrix

From: "Ms. Sharon"
To: access@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:57 PM       Katie its a waste of my time logging on to this site day after day only to find the same old news for weeks,. Why even bother having a site and your not gonna keep it updated???

From: "Roy Lowe"
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Web Page
       My friends and I enjoy the back ground music on your web page. Sincerely,
Mr. Lowe in Va.

From: ANN SULIVAN
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 1:14 AM
Subject: Hi!       I was thrilled to find this page with the newspaper on it. I am a 1966 graduate of Greenbrier College for Women and this brings back such memories.
      Although Greenbrier has closed we have a very active alumni association of which I am the Membership Chairman. We have a reunion every two years and are still very interested in Lewisburg and the area.We all have such fond memories of our days spent there and are doing everything we can to hold them close.
      At the present time we have a web page on another site and I am very dissatisfied with their service. Would you be interested in having us listed under your schools where people could log in either to The Mountain Messenger or go directly to the web page. I want to list The Mountain Messenger as one of the links.
      Could you please reply and tell me if this interest you and what we would need to do? I imagine that Greenbrier Military School, who has reunions every year, might be interested in this to.
      Looking forward to hearing from you very soon. Ann Sullvian
3928 Knollwood Trace
Birmingham, Alabama 35243

From: Debra
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:07 PM
Subject: Mountain Messenger online       I moved from Frankford in the winter of 1998 to California. I miss WV very much. I so enjoy being able to keep up on what is happening in that wonderful community. I am currently employed by one of California's Best Wineries. It's a thrill, but hope to return to Lewisburg area in the near future. Thanks for MM online. Debra (Greer) Garrison

From: CHARLES  PETERS SR.
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: November 11, 2000

Just stumbled on to your web site, looking for outdoor wood furnaces. I love it wish I was closer, also background music. I'm   a Bluegress fan can pick banjo, well did say I could really play anything. (I don't think so).

Thank you    Thank You   Charlie

From: Bob in York PA
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: November 5, 2000

Hi -

I was "surfing" through some links on www.comondreams.org and thought I would hit the Lewisburg link. I liked the music. I am a native WVA guy, since transplanted in PA but, well, you know the "hold" the mountains  have on a native West Virginian.

While I was going to WVU I spent a bunch of time in Greenbier Co. "caving".  You folks are doing a great job with your web presence. I am working with an IT group for a fortune 500 company and I have to admit, I really envy you..... doing what you are doing, where you are doing it!

Keep it up
Bob Rightmire 

From: Ginny Auldridge
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: November 4, 2000

I was hoping to find movies scheduled to play at the theatre in Lewisburg, but can not access that information on your page or through the phone book!  I like to know what times they are playing, and what
shows before I head out on such a long drive!

Thanks, Ginny

From: dhtkmaj
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: November 3, 2000

Hello My name Is Helen Rowe Evans. Carol I just want you to know. I think you do a wonderful job with this
paper. And also I think you are a very nice person. I don't know if you remember me or not. But I was at a dinner for one of our mutual friend's . "Brenda Kincaid"  At the Mexican Resturant. Keep up the good work.

Helen
 

From: John Ernest Wilbert
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: October 25, 2000

Great Web Site !!

Do you change your music ??
 

From: 1Nrcscoops
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: October 24, 2000

would love to know how to put my catering business on your web site.  and if you need one contact me at (304)574-*0466
 
 

 From:Willer, Les A
 To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
 Date: October 20, 2000

I am sitting at work in Saudi Arabia looking for ABB on the Web at I hit your site and it brought a real smile to my face .Loved it . Pat on the back who ever set it up.
Thanks
Leslie A. Willer
RMD/RMSD
Analyzer Supervisor
P.O. 7310
Ras Tanura Refinery
Ras Tanura, 31311
Saudi Arabia
Tel: 011-966-3-673-7480
Fax: 011-966-3-673-2894
Email: willerla@aramco.com.sa

From: RANBUILDER
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Date: October 2, 2000

Again, Keep up the good work,I love your Mt. Mess.    Randy W. Huntington


From: Larese, Kay
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:39 PM
Subject: misc        I am in Charleston and just discovered that you are online and love it!, with the weather forecast, etc, as my husband is up there a lot alone working on the property of a second place we have there up on the mountain. etc. I try to keep up on the local news there also. Keep up the good work!! Thank you.
Kay Larese
HRA/Gen Div

From: Cwalton
To: submissions@mountainmessenger.com
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: Enjoy your paper        I enjoy your paper whenever I get a chance to see one also I liked The Orange Blossom Special.I have had articles in your paper before. Thank you. We live in Callaghan Va.
We love the music!


       I SUBSCRIBE TO MOUNTAIN MESSENGER AND WAS HAPPY TO SEE MY SISTER JERRI [CADLE] STICKLER HAD WRITTEN TO YOU ABOUT THE CADLE FARM IN GRASSY MEADOWS .MY HUSBAND AND I MOVED AWAY IN 1959 AND MOVED [BACK HOME] TO GREENBRIER CO. IN 1997. HAPPY TO BE BACK. MAE [CADLE] KEENEY


Hello        Great page! I am a transplanted West Virginian born and raised at Thayer on the New River in Fayette co. living in St Petersburg Fl since 58. My maternal grandparents were residences` of Kessler on Big Clear Creek in Greenbrier co and I used to LOVE to visit them on weekends. He had a large home on approx 5 acres of land with an adjacent apple orchard of approx 2 acres. Wonderful memories! I love to tour the area when I get up that way. Alan Campbell
St Petersburg Fl

From: jr
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 11:53 AM
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Subject: Hello staff       I've spent the past 4hrs this morning, searching thru the various newspaper and obituary sites of the state of WV. (trying to locate a story on the death of a cyber-friends sister).
      Yours is the best site I've come across this morning. The pictures are great for weary eyes & the music was an unexpected delight. I went thru all your pages just to hear the different songs.
      Keep up the good work. I'll be checking your site often, from MI, just for the enjoyment. Thank you,
Jan Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow...instead of your voice!

Subject: The Best
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:03:32 EDT
From: Randy Williams
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu       

I have viewed every WV. newspaper on the net and the mountainmessenger is by far the BEST!       I went back to it yesterday evening and explored it more extensively, Keep up the good work!

You have done a great job.

Randy Williams
Huntington WV.

Subject: Grateful for this web site.....
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:01:05 -0400
From: Ruthie Walters
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu  

      Living in Florida and missing home........Found the web site and love it.... I am formerly from Lewisburg and moved to Florida,seven years ago...I miss all my friends and the news is always late getting to me..Thank you for providing this service to us "missing WV people". Just wish you could do a daily obituary page.


From: Joan Waid
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 7:42 PM
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Subject: obituaries  
 
      I would be interested in receiving the local obituaries. Thank you.

From: Baker, Chris (MLCC-FL)
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:55 AM
To: 'ads@mountainmessenger.com'
Subject: Improvements.  
      My suggestion would be to look at the USA today site and see how at the top of the home page it is very reader friendly. Too much garbage to go through to get desired reading on this site, although it is a nice picture on your logo. What about having your main articles on the front below your logo/ heading and make it reader simple. Put your important links like business, classifieds, realestate entertainment on a side bar to be easily accessed. Here are some examples.

http://www.jacksonville.com/
also http://www.usatoday.com/

      Thanks for allowing my suggestions. I love to keep up on my home news. Chris Baker
Merril Lynch
Jacksonville, Florida.


From: Joe Hanna
Sent: Monday, June 17, 1996 3:17 PM
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Subject: web site  
      I am glad to have found your web site.I live in texas and was born and raised around the Lewisburg area.I enjoy reading your paper on here. It gives me a little bit of home news and keeps me in touch with the place I was raised.Again,thanks for giving me a free trip home by the simple click of a button. MaY God bless
J.David Hanna

From: The McCoys
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 7:39 AM
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
Subject: Your web-site  
      The mountain messinger has the best organized as well as colorful site on the web and I look at lots of newspapers. I also enjoy the music.  Thanks
Tom MCCoy
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:22:54 -0400
From: "SkinnerC"
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu  
      Just wanted to let you know that I've found a site that I will visit alot. Being in the Kanawha Valley, we don't hear much new from the Greenbrier Valley, but since I've found this, I can log in and visit your beautiful area anytime I want.
      We have spent many of our summer vacations on the Greenbier River at my parents camp just outside of Roncevert, and plan on spending many more! Will visit the weekend of the Roncervert Riverfeast and we can't wait! THANKS!!!!!!!
Subject: Great Paper
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:32:46 -0600
From: "Thomas Smith"
To:        Enjoy your paper and love the music  

Tom Smith
Crestview, FL

Subject: wv state fair
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:31:49 EST
From:
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com Dear Sir/Madam:
      My daughter and I enjoy attending the WV State Fair every year. We are from Philippi, WV, We sure would appreciate it if you would e-mail us the list of concerts celebrities when they become available.
      Oh, by the way, I think you site is pretty cool. One of the best newspaper sites I've seen on the web. Thanks,
Linda Hess

Subject: A BIg thanks
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:58:25 -0800
From: "The Sheppards"
To:       Just wanted to let you know that I sold my GATEWAY computer which I had several calls about. Thanks for a job well done.

Subject:
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:07:27 -0700
From: Bill Post"
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu Dear Mike,
      I was really thrilled to come upon your Mountain Messenger Web Site. Being a former Lewisburgian it was great to catch up on the local stuff. It leaves quite a longing in my heart for home. Thanks for the opportunity to share in the daily stuff. I will certainly come to this spot more often. Thanks again,
Paula

Subject: Missing Home
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:14:47 EST
From: Scott Austin
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu       Hello my name is Jennifer Brooks, I live with my uncle Scott Austin here in Augusta Georgia. We are both from Greenbrier county as we were skimming through the internet we found the Mountain Messenger. With this on the internet we both feel closer to home already. thank you,
Jennifer Brooks
Scott Austin

Subject: Can't resist a note
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:13:36 -0600
From: "Patty Underwood"
To:       

Long gone natives enjoying your site. And surprising to find some one that I know, with an e-mail to your web site. Transplants via Michigan, Illinois and now in the fishing area of Arkansas and enjoying life to the hilt. Will be back come June for the Reunion of GHS.... Keep up the good work. Look forward to the newspaper every week.

Albert and Patty Underwood
Mountain Home


Subject: Hello Mountain Messenger!
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:06:45 -0600
From: Chuck Millard
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com       I'm impressed!!!.... love those dueling banjos. Any chance you could send me the dueling banjos file attached to an e-mail?  

Thanks,
Chuck Millard

Subject: Great Site
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:11:54 -0500
From: "Tim Bostic"
To:

      Enjoyed visiting your site. It is the best site for Greenbrier County that I have found on the net. It is great to have a source of info for us Greenbrier County folks living out of state. My aunt used to mail your papers to me while I was stationed overseas in the service and now with your site, we can save the postage!
      Living here in Oak Island, NC but hope to "retire" to good ole West Virginia. Tim Bostic

Subject: Very positve feedback
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:59:06 -0600
From: "Thor"
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com

      Delightful ezine. Like the music, photos, news. I'm from WSS, and miss the place dearly since I've lived in Cincinnati for the past 12 years with my wife and 3 children. My family is still there. Christian Giggenbach is on WSS city council, Fred Giggenbach is an attorney with the Prosecutors department, and my sister Betsy Giggenbach Squires is a prosecting attorney as well. My other brother Bader Giggenbach is an attorney in Morgantown (he's married to Melissa - also an attorney). I'm a Psychiatrist longing for the hills.
      Keep up the nice site, add more pictures, I miss home. Thor Tangvald, MD

Subject: From Across The Miles!
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:40:26 -0600 (CST)
From: (Jean/Jim Bender)
To: submissions@mountainmessenger.com       Five of our grown daughters live there and really miss being with them at the holiday season especially. We just want to say that the people of WV are friendly & down to earth people! We can't wait to get home!! Jean/Jim Bender

Subject: Opinion piece posing as news
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:23:20 -0500
From: "George A Compton"
To:
      I am wondering how an opinion piece by an obviously biased writer appears on the front page of the paper. I refer to the article about education by the president of the Wva. Board of Eduction.
      I looked at the article and did not see anywhere that it is an editorial comment or opinion. The average person would take this to be absolute truth, such as an objective news report should be.
      The very obvious answer to the piece is this; Does anyone seriously think that our education system is producing a top quality product? If the gentleman truly thinks our government schools are so competitive then I would expect his group to endorse all forms of school choice. Let the competition begin and with it meaningful evaluation of teachers and schools productivity. For the students sake.. George C.
Rainelle

Subject: MM
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:27:06 EST
From:
To: submissions@mountainmessenger.com      Great site. I am from W.S.S. and live in Morgantown for now with plans to return to Greenbrier Co. Your site helps me keep up with the local news.
Thank you. p.s. Hi brother Christian. Bader Giggenbach

Subject: DUELING BANGOS
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:07:41 -0500 (EST)
From: SHARONA681@webtv.net
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com A more appropiate midi would be Country Roads by John Denver Just an idea!!!!!

Subject: what is on my mind
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:11:13 -0600
From: Michael R Braun
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com       You wanted to know what is on my mind, My Fiancee Michelle :o) I love her with my whole being and the whole wide world may know :o))))))
      She lives In Crawly WV...... I love you Michelle
      Hehe well I don't know if this is what you meant by tell us what is on your mind but...this is what is on my mind... >From a NUT Dutch guy
Michael :o)

Subject:
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:53:57 -0500
From: "oakwood"
To:
       I can't believe that I have been on the internet this long and have not visited your website. I was raised in White Sulphur Springs and after a long stay in Morgantown I am happy to make Greenbrier County my home. I am currently serving on City Council in White Sulphur Springs. I love the Dueling Banjo's and the Steel Pterodactyl songs you have in the background. Keep up the the good work, and may God bless Greenbrier County! Christian Giggenbach
White Sulphur Springs

Subject: Nice Web Site
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:53:10 -0500
From: "Troy D Martin"
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com       I am a Western Greenbrier County native of long ago.I like your web site Keep up the good work. Troy.

Subject: Please get rid of Dueling Banjos.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:38:46 -0500
From:
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com       I enjoy your websie, but please get rid of the Dueling Banjos midi. It's unbearably obnoxious. --Max

Subject: Helping back home
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:03:48 EST
From: PIPPA
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
     Ron and I are native West Virginians,born, raised and college educated in W. Va, now living in upstate New York. I just heard at a storytelling seminar about the threat to our mountains in W. Va. Where have I been? I had no idea. It isn't highly publicized outside the state. But now we know and we want to join in the fight to save the mountains. We both have family roots in coal mining but more we have roots to the mountains that are West Virginia to us and to our children. We are interested in subscribing to the paper and to participating in this cause.
     Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
     PS. Love the accompanying music to this webpage. How appropriate!

From: JandRKing
To: submissions@mountainmessenger.com
Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999 8:30 PM
Subject: your paper
     This evening this transplanted West Virginian was looking at the Charleston online newspaper and noticed WV Links which led me to your paper. My family has spent many vacations and weekends st Greenbrier State Forest so I have always loved your neck of the woods. I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your paper AND the background music. I miss the naturalness of the people and the natural beauty of my homestate. I have traveled a good deal but nowhere can compare to "back home". Thanks for a very enjoyable site. RKing

Subject: new reader
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:33:50 -0700
From: "Barbara Knicely"

To:
     Really enjoy your paper--the links--and the music. Thanks
B.Knicely,
Peterstown

Subject: Enjoy your site
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:39:29 EDT
From:
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
     Wanted to let you know I enjoy your site and especially the music from way down here in Florida!! Native of McDowell County.

Subject:
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 99 20:23:10 PDT
From: "Parish"
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com  

nice site. keep it up. bill parish, new martinsville

Subject: Hello from The Computer Store of Charleston
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:37:34 -0400
From: Al Peery   apeery@computerstorewv.com
Organization: The Computer Store
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu
     I visited your website and boogied to Light My Fire. Looks like you folks are doing really well and taking advantage of the available technologies. I haven't had the opportunity to work with you folks in some time, but wanted to let you know we are still around. I enjoy working with newspapers and can help with equipment, software, networking, etc. Please let me know if we can be of service. Al Peery
The Computer Store
345-1360

Subject:
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:46:37 -0400
From: "Donna"
To: omb00875@mail.wvnet.edu Mike,
    
     I'm very impressed with the Mountain Messenger web page. I think it is a great addition to the WWW. Keep up the great work! Donna

Subject: Missing Spring
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:32:37 -0400
From: Holly Cate
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
     I am a native of the New River Valley and miss those beautiful springs of West Virginia. Living in northern New Hampshire, getting back to my roots is very infrequent. Northern New England does not have spring and nothing compares to the Dogwoods in bloom. Keep up the good work, you are appreciated! Chery

Subject: Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:03:47 -0400
From: "Timothy Totten"
To:      Having recently moved from the Greenbrier valley to the north coast of Ohio (on the shores of Lake Erie), I enjoy being able to keep up on the news. Thanks for your efforts!

Subject: Good Job
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 99 19:15:37 PDT
From: "Dan Berry"
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com      Just thought you would like to know you are a welcome site here in TEXAS, Hi
Linda

Subject: Class Reunion GEHS Class of 1969
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:56:20 EST
From: Gab2it@aol.com
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
     Your newspaper is a great way for those of us who grew up in the great Greebrier Valley to keep in touch with our roots. I was wondering if you had any news or information on a reunion for the first (AND BEST) class to ever graduate from Greenbrier East . I am referring, of course, to the class of 1969. Mike Hanson
Richmond,VA 23237

Subject: Nice Page!
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:08:28 -0500
From: Bob Teets
Organization: West Virginia Public Service Commission
To: ads@mountainmessenger.com
     Very nice page! Now bookmarked! Best,
Bob Teets
WV Public Service Commission

Subject: Love your site!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:31:20 -0500
From: "Linda Weikle"
     My parents receive your newspaper and pass it on to me and my husband to read. I've been checking out the real estate ads for a possible move back to the area and when I saw the information was online, I was thrilled. It will also help me search for a job. I especially love the music. I set the computer on your site while I'm doing my filing at work - it's very relaxing. Thanks,
Linda Weikle

Subject: Thanks
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:50:36 -0500
From: "David Shields"
     As you know, West Virginians from the Greenbrier Valley are located all over the United States, including me down here in the Swamps of South Georgia. It is a real pleasure to be able to touch base with my roots. I thank you for putting this page up. Could you possibly post more of the content of your paper? If not, I understand, and thanks again for what you do. David Shields
P. O. Box 34
Waycross, GA 31502
dshields@gate.net


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