The Charles B. Jarrell General Store has served its community daily news and necessities since 1884. For more than 130 years the Charles B. Jarrell General Store, located 13 miles south of Whitesville on West Virginia Route 3, has been the hub of the wheel of life in Dry Creek. Its floor boards, hewn and laid decades ago, are warped from…
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The not-for-profit Health Plan offers a community-based approach to health insurance. If your company needs a place to keep its money and you want to put it somewhere small and locally controlled, you might consider joining a credit union. If you have the same criteria for health insurance plans, you might consider The Health Plan. “We’re not owned by a…
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Dave Pray, Founder and Principal, Prayworks
Anne Montague works to preserve an often overlooked corner of American history before it’s too late. Dave Pray started Pray Construction in 1974 and, over the course of 25 years, grew it from a small residential construction company to a titan in regional commercial construction and a competitor on the national stage. In his years at Pray Construction he completed projects in 19…
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Every Day’s a Date
How to work with your spouse and stay married. When Bobby and I met in an office nearly nine years ago, I never would have imagined we’d end up married and running a photography business together. We were working at a small startup company in Charleston, and we’d both recently graduated from college. My background is in visual communications—I was the…
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Old Fashioned
Prohibition-era laws meant to limit access to alcohol now cause headaches for law enforcement trying to crack down on underage drinking. When it came time at long last in 1934 to repeal Prohibition, our conscientious state lawmakers didn’t throw the baby out with the bathtub gin. They were measured. The Legislature would write laws to regulate the manufacture and sale…
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