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Two-week deer season quickly approaching

The traditional West Virginia two-week deer buck gun season will come in on Monday, Nov. 19 and will run until Dec. 1. Running concurrently with this deer season will be the antlerless firearms season in all counties or parts of counties having an antlerless season. This includes all of Randolph County. Hunters need to keep in mind that all antlerless deer hunters must have a Class N or NN stamp along with a base hunting license unless the resident hunter is hunting on their own land. Non-resident hunters must have a non-resident license even if they are hunting on their own land. In ...

Two spots open in NASCAR playoff hunt

One more weekend remains to decide who battles it out at Homestead Miami Speedway for all three of the traveling NASCAR top series championships. This past weekend they all did battle at the blazing fast 1 1/2-mile Texas Motor Speedway. There was some great racing and some shake ups in the playoff standings leading up to the races at the unique Phoenix Raceway. This track has two completely different shaped ends even though it’s considered an oval it challenges both crew chief and driver to try and find the best combination. At one mile in length and just having undergone a ...

Logano angers Truex Jr. in victory

The NASCAR Camping World Truck series and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series both raced this past weekend at the tight paperclip shaped half-mile Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. The Xfinity series teams had a weekend off in their playoff races. They will be back in action Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway. The first teams up were the trucks for the Texas Roadhouse 200, and they always put on a great short track show there. GMS Racing had their trucks on a rail. Veteran Johnny Sauter moved out to the early lead and won the first and second stages and the 20 bonus ...

Collisions with deer can be costly

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is now urging all motorists to use extra caution while driving during the months of October, November and December. This year the state appears to have a higher than average abundance of white-tails, especially in the mountainous counties which includes Randolph. According to a survey that was conducted by the State Farm Insurance Agency, in West Virginia a motorist has the biggest possibility of having a deer collision (1 in 46) than any other state in the nation. In the states that adjoin West Virginia, the possibilities are like ...

Elkins Raceway awards banquet set for Dec. 8

I finally have all the rundowns for the 2018 Elkins Raceway season. Mark your calendars and get your tickets for the awards banquet to be held at the Beverly Fire Hall on Dec. 8. Contact the track office by phone at 304- 636-8661 or by message on the track Facebook page. The top 10 in each class will be honored and are as follows. Jenkins Ford Super Late Models, 1-10 are: champion Billy Holbert, Cody Hardesty, Michael Lake, Shane Hitt, Shaun Polling and Bob Gordon tied for the next spots, Chuck Harper, D.J. Miller, Nick Tressler and Steve Wilmoth. Budweiser FasTrack Crate Late ...

Writer finally goes squirrel hunting

I decided to go squirrel hunting two weeks ago. It was about 7:15 a.m. when I started into the woods with my grandfather’s old J.C. Higgins bolt-action, 12 gauge shotgun. All of the foot trails were not just damp, they were downright muddy due to all of the rain we had received during that week. It was just beginning to get daylight when I loaded that shotgun with Remington’s Heavy Game Load using number six shot. This shotgun load patterns quite well with that old shotgun out to nearly 50 yards. Some shotguns can be temperamental to what brand and type of ammunition one puts ...