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Poker Run Four Paws Hits Salsa Joe’s Saturday at My Way Cafe

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BELMONT — My Way Cafe on National Road in Belmont will host entertainment all day Saturday, Aug. 10, with food, fun, live music and more. Salsa Joe’s Saturday will be celebrated with throwback menu favorites. My Way Cafe welcomes the Poker Run Four Paws by Belmont County Pawsitive Placements, with the benefit poker run beginning and ending at the venue. There will be a 50/50 and other raffles and auctions, with proceeds benefitting the cause for Pawsitive Placements. There will be a donation area for supplies for the Belmont County Animal Shelter. Live music will take place ...

Olympic-Sized Challenges Are Everywhere

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There is a song that reminds us that “It’s summertime, and the living is easy.” Well, I guess that’s true for some folks. I don’t imagine there is anything easy about summertime for the hundreds of men and women competing at the Olympics in Paris. We have tuned into some of the events that grab our attention, flipping channels to catch various competitions. Who can’t be amazed by the gymnastic events featuring some of this country’s finest athletes? The floor and bar performances are breathtaking to watch. You have to imagine that somewhere along the way to the Olympics ...

Number, Please

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For 10 cents, I could call home from a public pay phone or phone booth. Then the price rose to 25 cents. Absurd, I thought as a grade schooler and later as a teen. I’m not sure if pay phones even exist anymore, let alone those glass enclosed phone booths with the folding door. When I was in grade school, I would take shelter in the phone booth that was located on National Road in front of the Hundley Ford car dealership. The phone booth provided some escape from the rain or snow as I waited for the public transit bus after attending a Girl Scout meeting at school. There was no use ...

Ashes of Leviathan Tour Brings Lamb of God, Mastodon, Kerry King

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PITTSBURGH - Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal albums, Lamb of God's “Ashes of the Wake” and Mastodon's “Leviathan,” the bands join forces for the Ashes of Leviathan Tour. They will be playing the two landmark albums in their entirety. The showcase also includes ...

Coffeehouse Series Continues With Talan Chambers

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NEW MARTINSVILLE — ArtsLink’s 2024 Coffeehouse Series continues Tuesday, July 30, with Talan Chambers. The free 6:30 p.m. concert, sponsored by First Mutual Bank, will be held on the performance deck at the Francis Creative Arts Center at the corner of Maple Avenue and Washington Street in downtown New Martinsville. Chambers is a recent 2024 graduate of Paden City High School. He has been eager to be onstage since he was 4 years old. He has been a guest vocalist/guitarist for the Ebert Brothers and Foggy Meadow Band, opened for Barbara Lynn and the Silver Eagle Band, won the ...

Live Music Roundup

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Friday, July 26 - Libby Adams, Pike 40, Morristown, 5-8 p.m. - The Muddle, Route 88 Burgers & Brew at Oglebay, Wheeling, 6-9 p.m. - Gailya Dodd, National Road Bikeway Gazebo, St. Clairsville, 7-8:30 p.m. - Faire May and Blue Diggity, Weirton Event Center, 7 p.m. - Vinyl Soul, Wheeling Park Amphitheater, 7-9 p.m. - The Band BEN, 19th Hole, Wheeling, 7-10 p.m. - Elderly Brothers, West Sports Bar, Wheeling, 7-10 p.m. - Jason Treuman, El Gran Patron, Moundsville, 7-10 p.m. - Jamie Peck, Hickman Lounge at Oglebay’s Wilson Lodge, 8-11 p.m. - New Age Adenas, Le Chateau ...