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The Raleigh Register merged with Beckley Post-Herald to become the Register-Herald

Brawley Walkway in downtown Charleston was named in honor of Harry Brawley

After extensive rehabilitation, Camp Washington-Carver was reopened

Founder John L. "Bugs" Teets died

Bernard Coffindaffer dreamed that God told him to erect roadside crosses

Phyllis Curtin retired from public singing

Daniel Boone Hotel was reopened after renovation, as office building

Hazel Dickens released By the Sweat of My Brow

The West Virginia Draft Horse and Mule Association was formed

Denise Giardina wrote Good King Harry

Dennis P. Prisk became the fourth president of the College of Graduate Studies

Columbia Gas was forced into bankruptcy

The Glen Ferris Inn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars was published

John Ailes died

John Hendricks was presented an honorary doctorate from University of Alabama

Don Blankenship became president and chief operating officer of Massey Coal Services

The West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th was named top C-130 unit in the Air Force

Buffalo Lake closed for swimming because of Canada geese

New partnership with Marshall University School of Medicine extended Cabell Huntington Hospital

St. Mary's Hospital of Huntington and Pleasant Valley Hospital (now Rivers Health) in Point Pleasant joined the Cabell Huntington Hospital network

Mountaineers made it to the Sweet 16 of National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Tournament

Thomson Newspapers sold Daily Mail to Media News Group

Stephen Coonts wrote Fortunes of War

WVU established official boundaries and endowment for the Core Arboretum

West Virginia crime rate reached 2,547.2 crimes per 100,000

The Wars of Heaven included in O. Henry Award prize story collection

Richard Currey won the Bravo Award for Literary Excellence

Richard Currey won the Charles H. Daugherty Humanities Award

Davis & Elkins College campus consisted of 170 acres and 20 major buildings

G. Thomas Mann became the 12th president of Davis & Elkins College

Hazel Dickens received honorary doctorate of humanities from Shepherd College (now University)

The last of the giant hyper compressors were cut into scrap at Dupont's Belle Plant

Edgewood Country Club celebrated its centenary

The Turning was screened at the West Virginia International Film Festival

Judy Byers established the West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University

The Buffalo Toyota plant produced its first four-cylinder engine

West Virginia Chamber of Commerce has more than 1,400 member companies

Charlest Town Racing expanded to 3,500 video slots

West Virginia Association of Fairs and Festivals had 132 member events statewide

Davis & Elkins College enrollment hit 603

Dow had annual sales of $33 billion and employed 46,000 people

Harold Hayslett was reported to have made a total of 65 violins, 1 viola, 61 cellos, 1 double bass, and 6 bows

West Virginia had 97 public library systems serving from 175 facilities and 7 bookmobiles

Reported 73,345 marijuana plants destroyed in West Virginia

Mylan Pharmaceuticals was ranked third nationally when more than 200 million Mylan prescriptions were filled

The Morgantown Mylan Pharmaceutical facility employed more than 1,500 people

West Virginia North and West Virginia South districts and the Nazarene congregation in the Eastern Panhandle reported a total of 121 congregations, 14,500 members

The value of West Virginia tobacco crop dropped to $3,710,000

Reported 27.4% of adults in West Virginia smoked