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2006•2009•2010•2011 WEST VIRGINIA’S BIGGEST BEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER•2012•2013•2014 Mighty MITES Sports, Page 1C Hampshire Wednesday, February 18, 2015 @Review.com Romney, WV • $1 PLUS TAX Hello Hampshire! From Leslie Crites, Fisher Kloee Hock, Paw Paw Thanks for subscribing! Commission calls Frontier to explain itself Details, Page 2A SPECIAL SECTION BONUS A look back, a look inside ■ Picturing JIM KING Review Staff students have passed through its halls. kids being SUNRISE SUMMIT — It was a farm, The campus has grown again and again, students the site of a dream that became a reality now sprawling from an ag complex on the with such promise. ■ YEARS OF west to athletic facilities on the east. Eight How the 50 Planning began in 1960 and on Aug. 31, years ago, the new Romney Middle School school came Hampshire 1964, Hampshire High School opened its opened on the crest overlooking HHS. into being High doors to students for the first time. Now, in the middle of Hampshire High’s Living, Page 1B Principal Robert Calvert and 21 teach- 50th-anniversary school year, we look ers greeted nearly 600 sophomores, ju- back through the years with our section niors and seniors in a state-of-the-art fa- “50 years of Hampshire High.” cility perched on the eastern slope of the Visit the halls once again. Remember From 1985: Paul Roomsburg points out how summit. the highlights. Connect with names and potting soil is cultivated to Andrew Dorsey, FEBRUARY o Michael Davis, Sonny Lewis and Jeff Shell. A KEEPSAKE Through the years, more than 11,000 18, 2015 faces from your past. SECTION IN 2nd man Zero down Kitchen arrested in ATM arguing robbery to sink JIM KING Review Staff PAW PAW —Another suspect has been charged in the Jan. 9 conviction theft of an ATM from The Bank of Romney branch in Paw Paw. Hearing today challenges Brian Stotler II, 20, was ar- ‘errors’ made in ’09 trial rested last week Review Staff by Hampshire County Sher- ROMNEY — The man iff’s deputies convicted of murdering on a Morgan Romney Auction owner Wil- County war- lard Malcolm in 2008 is mak- ing one last try to overturn Stotler rant. He is be- his conviction this afternoon. ing held without bond in the Po- Kilton Kitchen will be in the Circuit Courtroom here at tomac Highlands Regional Jail on Kitchen a probation violation. Stotler was 1:30 p.m. for a habeus hear- charged by a Hampshire County ing. He is contending a lita- grand jury last September along ny of errors occurred in his August 2009 trial that with 2 other men in a string of rob- should lead to his conviction being overturned beries that authorities say netted and him being granted a new trial. them at least $30,000 in property. “This one has 15 or 20 issues,” said Prosecutor Stotler is charged by Morgan Dan James, who will be defending the conviction County with grand larceny. Po- ED DEWITT Review Staff won by his predecessor, Steve Moreland. lice aren’t saying any more about Jack Bender plows snow at the Slanesville General Store Tuesday morning. A decision could take months, James said. the charges against him now, but Kitchen is represented by Joanie Nelson of Pe- had indicated earlier they believed tersburg, who James described as Kitchen’s “7th a 2nd person was involved in the or 8th” lawyer in the case. She did not return a call theft. Another storm glances past See KITCHEN page 5A n The ATM was found buried ear- lier this month in the yard of a Gore, Va., residence that Stotler Frigid temperatures, high winds keep the county shivering rents. JIM KING Review Staff “We got off with nothing,” said Jerry Loudin, who While authorities recovered the Winter 2015 is turning out to be more annoying runs the 911 call center on Jersey Mountain Road. machine, they have not located the than devastating, keeping emergency crews hopping “We had 1 car skid off the road into a ditch and that thousands of dollars reportedly in- Options eyed and schools guessing. was the extent of it.” side it. A year ago storm after storm dropped snow on The threat of snow combined with bone-tingling After finding the machine on the region, shutting schools and generally wreaking temperatures and wind chills led Hampshire County Feb. 3, Scott Randolph Heward, as clock ticks havoc with travel and the economy. schools to call off Monday and Tuesday. 24, of Cumberland, Md., was ar- This year? Forecasts keep popping up that look Forecasters are calling for another bout of cold to rested by Allegany County Sher- dire, but the storms seem to be delivering glancing blast through Thursday, dropping lows that night to iff’s police and charged with the blows. minus 4, followed by a 4-6 inch snowstorm Satur- on recycling theft. MICHAEL O’BRIEN Review Correspondent Take Monday night’s storm. Four to 8 inches day. Video surveillance at the Paw of snow were forecast from suppertime Monday But — keep your fingers crossed — Sunday’s ROMNEY — The clock is ticking as Hamp- Paw branch showed a well-dis- through late morning Tuesday. Instead, about 3 inch- n shire County commissioners continue to look at guised man, about 5-foot-10 and es fell and that was all done by 4 a.m. Tuesday. See STORM page 5A 140 pounds at the ATM around 3 various options in establishing a voter-mandated a.m. Jan. 9. Police said he made comprehensive recycling plan for the county. off with thousands of dollars. Commissioners have about a year to put a plan Submitted by together and it seems the path to get there is rather “I don’t know how hard it was ROMNEY FIRE for him to get the ATM out of COMPANY ambiguous. there,” Stapleton said at the time. Rescue Commission president Steve Slonaker last The ATM was in an enclosed lob- workers week said having a successful affordable program by, attached to the building. extricate would be the optimum situation. Stotler was indicted last Sep- one of the The big question is whether that optimum is tember on 16 felony charges, in- victims of a even possible. cluding 2 counts of grand larceny, head-on colli- Two state officials with expertise in recycling 7 counts of conspiracy, 1 of trans- sion Sunday. met with commissioners at their invitation. They ferring stolen property, 5 of break- each painted a picture depicting a rather challeng- See ATM page 5A n See OPTIONS page 5A n Courtesy of BERKELEY COUNTY P&G plant carries benefi t here DEVELOPMENT Review Staff AUTHORITY Construction is expected to location. This will enable us to The new CHARLESTON — A new begin later this year at Tabler rapidly and efficiently serve re- Proctor & Proctor and Gamble plant being Station Business Park. The facil- tail customers and consumers Gamble plant constructed in Berkeley Coun- ity will be more than 1 million throughout the eastern half of will be lo- ty will bring approximately 700 square feet. Media sources re- the United States, reaching 80% cated at the jobs to the region, and while it ported Tuesday there could be as of them within one-day transit.” Tabler Station will have a minimal direct im- many as 700 permanent jobs. It will be one of the largest Business pact on Hampshire County, the In a press release, Global projects the state has ever seen, Park along Details, Page 4-5C eventual benefits could be tan- Product Supply Officer Yannis and only the 2nd new P&G Unit- I-81. gible. Skoufalos said, “This new plant ed States plant built since 1971. © 2015 Cornwell & Ailes Inc. The announcement came last will leverage economies of scale Berkeley County reportedly beat Tuesday morning. P&G will and standardized manufactur- out 40 other possible locations build a $500 million plant it calls ing platforms to P&G’s advan- for the facility. “a multi-category manufacturing tage by allowing us to produce As far as the local impact, it facility” in Berkeley County. multiple brands at one strategic See P&G page 5A n Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Hampshire Review n 5A Romney. near Romney earlier that month On their exit, the Rangers in a similar circumstance; the were mistaken by pickets for thought of being treated to the a Federal force leaving on a same hospitality surely crossed scout. To add insult to injury, their minds. Eyes on potatoes McNeill disparaged Gen. Kel- The Rangers continued south the state. That’s what we’ve ing back and re-inventing some- ley as being on a scout for on the South Branch River Ag commissioner determined from the analytical thing that was once there, using “Granny Kelley” to the Federal Road to the Trough Road and work that Black Gold did. modern technology. The technol- ‘Oh, so near pickets; a comment which drew continued south. Near the wants to seed “They also said that the land in ogy that was used when agricul- laughter from the duped pick- Trough, the fi rst sighting of Randolph County, our Huttons- ture was abandoned in West Vir- and yet so far’ ets. pursuing Federals was made. spuds sprout ville land, would be a challenge. ginia in the 1930s and ’40s and The Rangers were approach- Two Rangers were captured at across state They pointed out things we need somewhat in the ’50s was total- Feb. 21, 1865 — Operating ing Short Gap as wisps of dawn the home of William B.