September 30, 2025 • 16 mins
Today on MetroNews This Morning:
--Counties where the MVP runs will reap significant tax benefits from the gas line
--The coal industry hails a big boost from President Donald Trump
--A West Virginia fisherman got more than he expected on the back of his boat
--In Sports: Hope Gas leaders talk about buying the naming rights to Hope Coliseum at WVU
--Counties where the MVP runs will reap significant tax benefits from the gas line
--The coal industry hails a big boost from President Donald Trump
--A West Virginia fisherman got more than he expected on the back of his boat
--In Sports: Hope Gas leaders talk about buying the naming rights to Hope Coliseum at WVU
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Metro News this morning, bringing you this morning's
biggest news headlines from across the state.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It it's Tuesday, September thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Good morning,
I'm Chris Laurence. Ready to get the day started with
the information you're gonna need the Mountain State. The forecast
today more of the same, pleasant weather, warm sunshine, cooler nights,
and that's going to be the case pretty much throughout
the week. We might have a passing shower in the
mountains tonight, but most places are going to stray dry.
(00:31):
We'll get that full forecast coming up in just a moment.
Right now, let's check what's been going on overnight across
the state of West Virginia with an update from the
Metro News anchored desk and Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Good morning Chris, and thank you. The up and operating
Mountain Valley pipeline. We'll provide a tax revenue boost in
the twenty twenty six tax year to the nine counties
where the pipeline is located. State Border Public Works got
its first look Monday at tentative tax assessments when utility
companies for next year. There is a ze point five
billion dollar increase in assessment. State Tax Commissioner Matt Derby
(01:04):
says that's because of MVP.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Primary out of death increase is related to finally coming
on of the large pipeline project that became operational in
June twenty four, making the first accessible by this board.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Counties will benefit most from the increased tax revenue. MVP
runs through Green Brier, mon Roe, Nicholas, Somers, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Webster,
and Wetzel Counties to transport natural gas to East Coast
markets utilities who have a chance to appeal the assess rates.
More of the state's eastern Panhandle now has natural gas service.
Mountaineer Gas and TC Energy completing at twenty three mile
(01:44):
ten inch pipeline extension earlier this month. The extension takes
gas service from Martinsburg into Morgan County. Mountaineer Gas Vice
president Tom Westfall says growth in the panhandles behind this project.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
We have been working with businesses in the Eastern Panhandle
for about twenty five years. Lately, we've had a lot
of growth that we've kind of had to put on
hold until we got this pipeline completed. And now We're
looking forward to expanding our service there and serving new
business and residential customers.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The new line goes into Berkeley Springs. The West Virginia
co industry is praising President Donald Trump's Monday announcement of
a six hundred and twenty five million dollar investment in
the coal mining efforts across the US. Trump's plan includes
a three hundred and fifty million dollar commitment to keep
coal fired power plants running. Governor Patrick Morrissey and US
Senator Jim Justice among those thanking the President for his
(02:34):
continued support of coal. West Virginia Co Association President Chris
Hamilton says Trump quote supports family sustaining coal jobs and reliable,
affordable American energy now energy Efficient. West Virginia Policy director
em Pepper views it differently. He says the money would
be better spent to help reduce monthly power bills that
West Virginias are having trouble paying. Sierah Club West Virginia
(02:56):
chairman Jim Coatson says, quote accountability is needed, not hand
out that reverse protections for our neighbor's land and waterways
across the state. The Governor's Conference on Tourisms underway in
Morgantown WW President Michael T. Benson stopped by on Monday.
Later this morning, Governor Patrick Morrissey is scheduled to speak.
That's schedule for nine o'clock. Huntington Mayor Patrick Farrell says
(03:17):
the SSAC selection of Huntington the host of state high
school baseball tournament for the next several years can boost tourism.
Pharaoh says it's a great opportunity for his city. That
starts with the Jack Cookfield at Marshall University.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Now, what we really want here is for someone to
come to Huntington and have a memory of watching their
kids competing. For the kids to be on the field,
you know, playing under the whites. Because what we want
them to do is then see themselves as part of
the hunting community and maybe come to Marshall, maybe come
here to work.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Charleston and this ballpark have hosted those baseball championships for decades.
Cable County School officials plan a normal day at All
Tizer Elementary and Huntington after an increased police presence Monday
after a threat was made toward a student.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Keith Thomas, Cable County School's Director of Health, Willness and
student support said they were made aware of the threat
by an individual and confirmed it on Monday morning. Thomas
explained that the threat came from a student who does
not attend school in their district. He says their relationship
with local law enforcement made the situation easier to navigate.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
We have a great relationship with him that's been built
throughout the past years and because of that, they always
jumped in and helped. So immediately everybody locally jumped in
and wanted to know how they get.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Help, Thomas said. The Huntington Police Department in Kabo County
Sheriff's Department are continuing their investigation. I'm Morgan Pimberton wvmetornews
dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The civil service panel in the Kenawa County town of
Bell has rode in favor of Mary David Fletcher's decision
to fire police chief Robert Glenn. There was an hour's
long hearing on Monday where Glenn defended his actions to
have a truck towed from private property. He later Leslie
used the truck for his own benefit. More on that
story at wv metronews dot com. True story here at Barbersville.
Man was fishing recently in Eastland Lake and Wayne County
(04:58):
when a deer got into his boat. No kidding, Steve
Jackson says, it's the truth.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Yeah, I was only about a foot off the bank,
so he didn't wasn't like he went real.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Far, So you didn't coax him or anything. He just
did it.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Yeah, he just did it. He just jumped right on.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Jackson will tell the whole story coming up in this
morning's backgrounder in just a few minutes, and the photo
is the lead story at our website this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
If I'm lying, I'm dying. Thank you, Jeff. We'll have
that story coming up at the background or plus Daniel
Woods s Sports all still ahead.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
The second half of the high school football season continues
Friday night with our go Mart Game of the Week.
Fort Hill, Maryland at Bridgeport lost catch Greenbrier West against
Fort Fry, Ohio. Just Sales versus Cabell Midland Wheeling Park
in Morgantown, and mary Had a versus Williamstown. All on
Metro News TV brought to you by the Thrasher Group,
Marshall University and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Download the free
(05:54):
Metro News TV app on your iPhone, iPad, Android Apple TV,
Roku or Fire TV. Visit Double DV Metro newstv dot
com for more information.
Speaker 12 (06:04):
It's the time of the year when Friday nights are special,
and that's because Friday Night's are reserved for high school football.
This is fredfur Singer inviting you to join Dave Jeckman
in me every Friday night through November twenty eighth for
year number twenty four of Game Night. Every Friday night,
we'll bring you all the scores and stories from around
the state. Last we'll take your phone calls and talk
about your favorite team. It's Game Night presented by match
(06:27):
a Mountain State Assessment of Trends and Community Health Survey.
Visit wvmatchsurvey dot org.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Still ahead, Daniel Woods, We'll have an updated on sports,
but right now on our backgrounder, Angler Steve Jackson of
Barbersville was fishing at East Lynn lay Back on Saturday
in a bass fishing tournament when he got some unexpected
company on the back deck of the boat. He shares
the story with us in our backgrounder.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
I was up in the back of Lick Creek. He
just came off the heel and just was looking at
me from the bank. Started talking to him like you
do it like you would a dog or eveything else.
He started walking, you know, along with me, and finally
he walked down to the bank by the edge of
(07:13):
the water, and I moved my boat over to him,
and he let me start petting on him. Then didn't
really think too much of it. After about ten minutes,
I was like, okay, I need to get back to fishing.
I'm fishing a tournament. So I started moving my boat
along the bank and he followed me for about two
(07:35):
hundred yards. He followed me along the bank. I pulled
up next to into a little shallow cove so I
could retie some baits, and came walking back over to
me again. I figured he wanted me to pet on
him a little bit more, so I obliged padding on him,
(07:56):
and he was just checking my boat out and everything else,
and he walked, you know, walked started walking away like
towards at the back of my boat, and I figured, okay,
he's done, and I went back to doing what I
was doing, and he hopped on board.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He just jumped off the bank onto the boat.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
Yeah. I was only about a foot off the bank,
so he didn't it wasn't like he went real.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Far, so you didn't coax him or anything. He just
did it.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Yeah, he just did it. He just jumped right on. Well,
he stayed on there for probably about fifteen minutes until
he started until he realized I didn't have a snackch retreats.
Oh okay, and he started pushing against me, you with
his head and his horns, and I wasn't going to
have none of that because I don't want to get
knocked in the water. I don't want him to break
(08:47):
rods and everything else. I backed my boat back over
closer to the bank where he jumped on, and I
ended up having to slightly and gently cohercing to get
off my boat.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You can see a picture of the deer on the
boat at WDV metronews dot com. Time now to go
back to the sports desk getting updates with Daniel Woods. Daniel,
I don't know how you fothered that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Good luck.
Speaker 13 (09:17):
Yeah, there's simply no way to follow that. I don't
think there's nothing that I could say that I think
would grab people's more attention than the deer on the
fishing boat.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But I'm going to try.
Speaker 13 (09:26):
The WVU Coliseum is now the Hope Coliseum. It's the
first name change for the home of West Virginia basketball, volleyball, wrestling,
in gymnastics. This has opened in nineteen seventy and Athletic
director Ren Baker says they've valued finding a West Virginia
based partner like Hope Gas.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
If we were going to marry our brand with another
company's brand, we wanted to make sure it's a company that,
in a perfect world, holds some of our same values,
and we would have considered a national brand. But if
it was a West Virginia company, and that's something that
really resonated with.
Speaker 13 (09:57):
Us, that naming rights deal for the coliseum runs for
the next ten years. Another week of high school football
is on the horizon, and another addition of the Metro
News Power Rankings is here. Three of the number ones
are the same as last week, Huntington in Class Quada,
Bridgeport in Triple A, and Wahama in Single A. After
one week at number two, Independence is back in the
(10:18):
number one spot in Class Double A, moving ahead of
Frankfurt this week. Several teams jump into the top tens
this week, with Parkersburg taking the number nine spot in
Quada Greenbrier East rising to number ten in Triple A,
Philip Barber back in at number eight, and Logan appearing
for the first time at number ten in Double A,
and Saint Mary's reclaiming the number ten spot in Class A.
(10:38):
You can find the full rankings online at wv Metro
News dot com and tune into the High School Sports
Line tomorrow night at seven oh six across the Metro
News Radio network for a full breakdown of the week
ahead in high school football. The WVU women's soccer team
is rolling after a successful trip to the state of Utah,
beating number sixteen BYU and drawing Utah. Head coach Nikki
(10:58):
Izoe Brown says that one win is going to mean
something at the end of the season.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That's a signature win when the committee looks to do bids.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
So I was really proud of the way the team
performed and my staff got them ready for that game.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
The Mountaineers return home Thursday to play Arizona. The Miami
Dolphins are winners for the first time this season, beating
the now zero to four New York Jets twenty seven
to twenty one on Monday Night football to a Tagova
loa threw for two touchdowns and Devon eight Chan added
a third on the ground. As Miami moves to one
to three, it seems the Dolphins will have to move
(11:32):
forward without top receiver Tyreek Hill, though he was carted
off with a dislocated knee during Monday's game. More tests
are expected today, but that injury is believed to be
season ending, and the Major League Baseball playoffs are getting
ready to start today. In the meantime, three teams have
openings on the bench, with the Texas Rangers, San Francisco
Giants in Minnesota Twins looking for new managers. The Rangers
(11:55):
announced Monday a mutual parting of ways with Bruce Bochie,
who's the active winningest manager in baseball. San Francisco fired
Bob Melvin and Minnesota fired Roco belld Delhi. The Pittsburgh
Pirates meanwhile announced an extension for manager Don Kelly, who
took over thirty eight games into this season.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Thank you, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Metro News Midday is on the air from noon to
three each weekday afternoon, and you can get caught up
on what's been happening since your day started. Amanda Baron
and Dave Allen. We'll have a look at the news
at noon plus interesting features, interviews and interactions with you.
It is Metro News Midday on Metro News from noon
to three each weekday. Now with Today's commentary the host
of Metro News Hotline Dave Weekly.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Thanks Chris.
Speaker 15 (12:35):
Did you ever wonder about how often we communicate with
each other via email? We're not talking about text messages here,
just email. The United States leads the world in the
number of daily emails, nearly ten billion every single day,
But there was a time in America when sending or
receiving a letter wasn't quite so easy. In eighteen nineties,
sixty five percent of all Americans lived in rural areas.
(12:56):
No radio, no telephones. Newspapers were for city dwellers on
the farm. Your nearest neighbors might be miles away. And
that's where rural Free Delivery or RFD comes in, and
West Virginia is key to its important story. In the
eighteen eighties, sending or receiving a letter meant a trip
to town, and there was no guarantee that any letters
would be waiting there for you. In eighteen eighty seven,
(13:19):
the Postal Service began delivering the mail, but only in
towns with more than ten thousand residents, which left millions
of Americans and the majority of West Virginians out of
the loop. But RFD changed all that, and its anniversary
is tomorrow, October first, eighteen ninety six. The Postmaster General
William Wilson, got forty thousand dollars for an experiment to
(13:39):
see if the idea of bringing the mail to rural
Americans was practical. Wilson was born in Charlestown. He fought
for the Confederates in the twelfth Virginia Cavalry, opened a
law practice in the Eastern Panhandle, and, after a brief
stint as wu's president, spent a dozen years as a
Democratic congressman before being appointed Postmaster General by Grover Cleveland.
(13:59):
The first experimental routes to get rural delivery service were
in Jefferson County, five routes covering ten miles. Harry Gibson
delivered the first ever piece of mail through RFD. Gibson,
along with Frank Young, John Lucas, and Keith Strider, delivered
that mail on horseback. Strider's fifteen year old cousin, Melvin,
still too young to get a paycheck, delivered his portion
(14:21):
of that first batch of RFD mail on the twenty
mile round trip on his bicycle. RFD mail was wildly
popular from the jump. Within a year of the service
starting in West Virginia, forty four routes were being covered
in twenty nine states. By nineteen oh two, it was
adopted nationwide by the way. That first carrier, Harry Gibson,
remained on the job until nineteen nineteen when Vesta Waters
(14:44):
Jones took over that route, becoming the first female male
carrier in our state, among the first women to carry
the mail, and she did it in a model t Ford.
RFD carriers were a miniature post office on wheels. They
not only delivered the mail, they took letters and sold
stamps and money orders and other postal supplies that previously
required a costly trip into town. Curiously, not everybody loved
(15:06):
the idea of rural free delivery. It puts some private
delivery companies out of business, and merchants worried that if
farmers didn't come to town occasionally for goods in their mail,
they'd lose sales. Full implementation of RFD out West was
slowed for this very reason. Stories of the early rural
mail carriers are fascinating. If you've never received mail before
(15:29):
on the farm, where's the carrier supposed to put it?
For some, that meant your lard bucket or your cigar
box became your first actual mailbox. RFD mail connected Americans
in a way that had never been attempted before, and
it started right here in West Virginia in eighteen ninety six.
I'll talk to you later today on most of these
same stations on Metro News Hotline beginning at three oh six.
(15:50):
Back to you, Chris, Thank you, Dave, Catch Dave along
with Coop this afternoon from three and no six with
Metro News Hotline on the network, in streaming at wv
metronews dot com or West Virginia. Weather forecast for the day,
expect to mix of sun and clouds.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Today.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Moisture from a distant tropical storm moves through our region.
That could create a brief mountain shower, but most of
the state's going to stay dry. High temperature is going
to be in the upper seventies, lower eighties. Skies are
going to clear out tonight. That's going to allow for
areas of valley fog to form, but tomorrow morning sunny
and dry weather expected for the rest of the week
with pleasant afternoon temperatures and cool nights. And now you're
(16:26):
up to date, have yourself a great day for Dave Weekly,
Daniel Woods, and Jeff Jenkins. I'm Chris Lawrence and this
is Metro News for forty years, the voice of West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Metro News This Morning is an exclusive production of the
Metro News Radio Network. All rights reserved.
This is Metro News this morning, bringing you this morning's
biggest news headlines from across the state.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It it's Tuesday, September thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Good morning,
I'm Chris Laurence. Ready to get the day started with
the information you're gonna need the Mountain State. The forecast
today more of the same, pleasant weather, warm sunshine, cooler nights,
and that's going to be the case pretty much throughout
the week. We might have a passing shower in the
mountains tonight, but most places are going to stray dry.
(00:31):
We'll get that full forecast coming up in just a moment.
Right now, let's check what's been going on overnight across
the state of West Virginia with an update from the
Metro News anchored desk and Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Good morning Chris, and thank you. The up and operating
Mountain Valley pipeline. We'll provide a tax revenue boost in
the twenty twenty six tax year to the nine counties
where the pipeline is located. State Border Public Works got
its first look Monday at tentative tax assessments when utility
companies for next year. There is a ze point five
billion dollar increase in assessment. State Tax Commissioner Matt Derby
(01:04):
says that's because of MVP.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Primary out of death increase is related to finally coming
on of the large pipeline project that became operational in
June twenty four, making the first accessible by this board.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Counties will benefit most from the increased tax revenue. MVP
runs through Green Brier, mon Roe, Nicholas, Somers, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Webster,
and Wetzel Counties to transport natural gas to East Coast
markets utilities who have a chance to appeal the assess rates.
More of the state's eastern Panhandle now has natural gas service.
Mountaineer Gas and TC Energy completing at twenty three mile
(01:44):
ten inch pipeline extension earlier this month. The extension takes
gas service from Martinsburg into Morgan County. Mountaineer Gas Vice
president Tom Westfall says growth in the panhandles behind this project.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
We have been working with businesses in the Eastern Panhandle
for about twenty five years. Lately, we've had a lot
of growth that we've kind of had to put on
hold until we got this pipeline completed. And now We're
looking forward to expanding our service there and serving new
business and residential customers.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The new line goes into Berkeley Springs. The West Virginia
co industry is praising President Donald Trump's Monday announcement of
a six hundred and twenty five million dollar investment in
the coal mining efforts across the US. Trump's plan includes
a three hundred and fifty million dollar commitment to keep
coal fired power plants running. Governor Patrick Morrissey and US
Senator Jim Justice among those thanking the President for his
(02:34):
continued support of coal. West Virginia Co Association President Chris
Hamilton says Trump quote supports family sustaining coal jobs and reliable,
affordable American energy now energy Efficient. West Virginia Policy director
em Pepper views it differently. He says the money would
be better spent to help reduce monthly power bills that
West Virginias are having trouble paying. Sierah Club West Virginia
(02:56):
chairman Jim Coatson says, quote accountability is needed, not hand
out that reverse protections for our neighbor's land and waterways
across the state. The Governor's Conference on Tourisms underway in
Morgantown WW President Michael T. Benson stopped by on Monday.
Later this morning, Governor Patrick Morrissey is scheduled to speak.
That's schedule for nine o'clock. Huntington Mayor Patrick Farrell says
(03:17):
the SSAC selection of Huntington the host of state high
school baseball tournament for the next several years can boost tourism.
Pharaoh says it's a great opportunity for his city. That
starts with the Jack Cookfield at Marshall University.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Now, what we really want here is for someone to
come to Huntington and have a memory of watching their
kids competing. For the kids to be on the field,
you know, playing under the whites. Because what we want
them to do is then see themselves as part of
the hunting community and maybe come to Marshall, maybe come
here to work.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Charleston and this ballpark have hosted those baseball championships for decades.
Cable County School officials plan a normal day at All
Tizer Elementary and Huntington after an increased police presence Monday
after a threat was made toward a student.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Keith Thomas, Cable County School's Director of Health, Willness and
student support said they were made aware of the threat
by an individual and confirmed it on Monday morning. Thomas
explained that the threat came from a student who does
not attend school in their district. He says their relationship
with local law enforcement made the situation easier to navigate.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
We have a great relationship with him that's been built
throughout the past years and because of that, they always
jumped in and helped. So immediately everybody locally jumped in
and wanted to know how they get.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Help, Thomas said. The Huntington Police Department in Kabo County
Sheriff's Department are continuing their investigation. I'm Morgan Pimberton wvmetornews
dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The civil service panel in the Kenawa County town of
Bell has rode in favor of Mary David Fletcher's decision
to fire police chief Robert Glenn. There was an hour's
long hearing on Monday where Glenn defended his actions to
have a truck towed from private property. He later Leslie
used the truck for his own benefit. More on that
story at wv metronews dot com. True story here at Barbersville.
Man was fishing recently in Eastland Lake and Wayne County
(04:58):
when a deer got into his boat. No kidding, Steve
Jackson says, it's the truth.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Yeah, I was only about a foot off the bank,
so he didn't wasn't like he went real.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Far, So you didn't coax him or anything. He just
did it.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Yeah, he just did it. He just jumped right on.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Jackson will tell the whole story coming up in this
morning's backgrounder in just a few minutes, and the photo
is the lead story at our website this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
If I'm lying, I'm dying. Thank you, Jeff. We'll have
that story coming up at the background or plus Daniel
Woods s Sports all still ahead.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
The second half of the high school football season continues
Friday night with our go Mart Game of the Week.
Fort Hill, Maryland at Bridgeport lost catch Greenbrier West against
Fort Fry, Ohio. Just Sales versus Cabell Midland Wheeling Park
in Morgantown, and mary Had a versus Williamstown. All on
Metro News TV brought to you by the Thrasher Group,
Marshall University and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Download the free
(05:54):
Metro News TV app on your iPhone, iPad, Android Apple TV,
Roku or Fire TV. Visit Double DV Metro newstv dot
com for more information.
Speaker 12 (06:04):
It's the time of the year when Friday nights are special,
and that's because Friday Night's are reserved for high school football.
This is fredfur Singer inviting you to join Dave Jeckman
in me every Friday night through November twenty eighth for
year number twenty four of Game Night. Every Friday night,
we'll bring you all the scores and stories from around
the state. Last we'll take your phone calls and talk
about your favorite team. It's Game Night presented by match
(06:27):
a Mountain State Assessment of Trends and Community Health Survey.
Visit wvmatchsurvey dot org.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Still ahead, Daniel Woods, We'll have an updated on sports,
but right now on our backgrounder, Angler Steve Jackson of
Barbersville was fishing at East Lynn lay Back on Saturday
in a bass fishing tournament when he got some unexpected
company on the back deck of the boat. He shares
the story with us in our backgrounder.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
I was up in the back of Lick Creek. He
just came off the heel and just was looking at
me from the bank. Started talking to him like you
do it like you would a dog or eveything else.
He started walking, you know, along with me, and finally
he walked down to the bank by the edge of
(07:13):
the water, and I moved my boat over to him,
and he let me start petting on him. Then didn't
really think too much of it. After about ten minutes,
I was like, okay, I need to get back to fishing.
I'm fishing a tournament. So I started moving my boat
along the bank and he followed me for about two
(07:35):
hundred yards. He followed me along the bank. I pulled
up next to into a little shallow cove so I
could retie some baits, and came walking back over to
me again. I figured he wanted me to pet on
him a little bit more, so I obliged padding on him,
(07:56):
and he was just checking my boat out and everything else,
and he walked, you know, walked started walking away like
towards at the back of my boat, and I figured, okay,
he's done, and I went back to doing what I
was doing, and he hopped on board.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He just jumped off the bank onto the boat.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
Yeah. I was only about a foot off the bank,
so he didn't it wasn't like he went real.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Far, so you didn't coax him or anything. He just
did it.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Yeah, he just did it. He just jumped right on. Well,
he stayed on there for probably about fifteen minutes until
he started until he realized I didn't have a snackch retreats.
Oh okay, and he started pushing against me, you with
his head and his horns, and I wasn't going to
have none of that because I don't want to get
knocked in the water. I don't want him to break
(08:47):
rods and everything else. I backed my boat back over
closer to the bank where he jumped on, and I
ended up having to slightly and gently cohercing to get
off my boat.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You can see a picture of the deer on the
boat at WDV metronews dot com. Time now to go
back to the sports desk getting updates with Daniel Woods. Daniel,
I don't know how you fothered that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Good luck.
Speaker 13 (09:17):
Yeah, there's simply no way to follow that. I don't
think there's nothing that I could say that I think
would grab people's more attention than the deer on the
fishing boat.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But I'm going to try.
Speaker 13 (09:26):
The WVU Coliseum is now the Hope Coliseum. It's the
first name change for the home of West Virginia basketball, volleyball, wrestling,
in gymnastics. This has opened in nineteen seventy and Athletic
director Ren Baker says they've valued finding a West Virginia
based partner like Hope Gas.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
If we were going to marry our brand with another
company's brand, we wanted to make sure it's a company that,
in a perfect world, holds some of our same values,
and we would have considered a national brand. But if
it was a West Virginia company, and that's something that
really resonated with.
Speaker 13 (09:57):
Us, that naming rights deal for the coliseum runs for
the next ten years. Another week of high school football
is on the horizon, and another addition of the Metro
News Power Rankings is here. Three of the number ones
are the same as last week, Huntington in Class Quada,
Bridgeport in Triple A, and Wahama in Single A. After
one week at number two, Independence is back in the
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number one spot in Class Double A, moving ahead of
Frankfurt this week. Several teams jump into the top tens
this week, with Parkersburg taking the number nine spot in
Quada Greenbrier East rising to number ten in Triple A,
Philip Barber back in at number eight, and Logan appearing
for the first time at number ten in Double A,
and Saint Mary's reclaiming the number ten spot in Class A.
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You can find the full rankings online at wv Metro
News dot com and tune into the High School Sports
Line tomorrow night at seven oh six across the Metro
News Radio network for a full breakdown of the week
ahead in high school football. The WVU women's soccer team
is rolling after a successful trip to the state of Utah,
beating number sixteen BYU and drawing Utah. Head coach Nikki
(10:58):
Izoe Brown says that one win is going to mean
something at the end of the season.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That's a signature win when the committee looks to do bids.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
So I was really proud of the way the team
performed and my staff got them ready for that game.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
The Mountaineers return home Thursday to play Arizona. The Miami
Dolphins are winners for the first time this season, beating
the now zero to four New York Jets twenty seven
to twenty one on Monday Night football to a Tagova
loa threw for two touchdowns and Devon eight Chan added
a third on the ground. As Miami moves to one
to three, it seems the Dolphins will have to move
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forward without top receiver Tyreek Hill, though he was carted
off with a dislocated knee during Monday's game. More tests
are expected today, but that injury is believed to be
season ending, and the Major League Baseball playoffs are getting
ready to start today. In the meantime, three teams have
openings on the bench, with the Texas Rangers, San Francisco
Giants in Minnesota Twins looking for new managers. The Rangers
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announced Monday a mutual parting of ways with Bruce Bochie,
who's the active winningest manager in baseball. San Francisco fired
Bob Melvin and Minnesota fired Roco belld Delhi. The Pittsburgh
Pirates meanwhile announced an extension for manager Don Kelly, who
took over thirty eight games into this season.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Thank you, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Metro News Midday is on the air from noon to
three each weekday afternoon, and you can get caught up
on what's been happening since your day started. Amanda Baron
and Dave Allen. We'll have a look at the news
at noon plus interesting features, interviews and interactions with you.
It is Metro News Midday on Metro News from noon
to three each weekday. Now with Today's commentary the host
of Metro News Hotline Dave Weekly.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Thanks Chris.
Speaker 15 (12:35):
Did you ever wonder about how often we communicate with
each other via email? We're not talking about text messages here,
just email. The United States leads the world in the
number of daily emails, nearly ten billion every single day,
But there was a time in America when sending or
receiving a letter wasn't quite so easy. In eighteen nineties,
sixty five percent of all Americans lived in rural areas.
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No radio, no telephones. Newspapers were for city dwellers on
the farm. Your nearest neighbors might be miles away. And
that's where rural Free Delivery or RFD comes in, and
West Virginia is key to its important story. In the
eighteen eighties, sending or receiving a letter meant a trip
to town, and there was no guarantee that any letters
would be waiting there for you. In eighteen eighty seven,
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the Postal Service began delivering the mail, but only in
towns with more than ten thousand residents, which left millions
of Americans and the majority of West Virginians out of
the loop. But RFD changed all that, and its anniversary
is tomorrow, October first, eighteen ninety six. The Postmaster General
William Wilson, got forty thousand dollars for an experiment to
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see if the idea of bringing the mail to rural
Americans was practical. Wilson was born in Charlestown. He fought
for the Confederates in the twelfth Virginia Cavalry, opened a
law practice in the Eastern Panhandle, and, after a brief
stint as wu's president, spent a dozen years as a
Democratic congressman before being appointed Postmaster General by Grover Cleveland.
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The first experimental routes to get rural delivery service were
in Jefferson County, five routes covering ten miles. Harry Gibson
delivered the first ever piece of mail through RFD. Gibson,
along with Frank Young, John Lucas, and Keith Strider, delivered
that mail on horseback. Strider's fifteen year old cousin, Melvin,
still too young to get a paycheck, delivered his portion
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of that first batch of RFD mail on the twenty
mile round trip on his bicycle. RFD mail was wildly
popular from the jump. Within a year of the service
starting in West Virginia, forty four routes were being covered
in twenty nine states. By nineteen oh two, it was
adopted nationwide by the way. That first carrier, Harry Gibson,
remained on the job until nineteen nineteen when Vesta Waters
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Jones took over that route, becoming the first female male
carrier in our state, among the first women to carry
the mail, and she did it in a model t Ford.
RFD carriers were a miniature post office on wheels. They
not only delivered the mail, they took letters and sold
stamps and money orders and other postal supplies that previously
required a costly trip into town. Curiously, not everybody loved
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the idea of rural free delivery. It puts some private
delivery companies out of business, and merchants worried that if
farmers didn't come to town occasionally for goods in their mail,
they'd lose sales. Full implementation of RFD out West was
slowed for this very reason. Stories of the early rural
mail carriers are fascinating. If you've never received mail before
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on the farm, where's the carrier supposed to put it?
For some, that meant your lard bucket or your cigar
box became your first actual mailbox. RFD mail connected Americans
in a way that had never been attempted before, and
it started right here in West Virginia in eighteen ninety six.
I'll talk to you later today on most of these
same stations on Metro News Hotline beginning at three oh six.
(15:50):
Back to you, Chris, Thank you, Dave, Catch Dave along
with Coop this afternoon from three and no six with
Metro News Hotline on the network, in streaming at wv
metronews dot com or West Virginia. Weather forecast for the day,
expect to mix of sun and clouds.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Today.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Moisture from a distant tropical storm moves through our region.
That could create a brief mountain shower, but most of
the state's going to stay dry. High temperature is going
to be in the upper seventies, lower eighties. Skies are
going to clear out tonight. That's going to allow for
areas of valley fog to form, but tomorrow morning sunny
and dry weather expected for the rest of the week
with pleasant afternoon temperatures and cool nights. And now you're
(16:26):
up to date, have yourself a great day for Dave Weekly,
Daniel Woods, and Jeff Jenkins. I'm Chris Lawrence and this
is Metro News for forty years, the voice of West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
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