Pendleton 2026: We have an updated list. Who’s Running for What and Who Has Just Switched Teams to Get There As filings stack up for the 2026 elections, one thing’s obvious: Pendleton’s ballots are redder than ever, at least on […]
Rewind to 2023 To really get a feel for where the current issues with the Fire Department started, we’ve got to rewind back to 2023, when tension between Falmouth and Pendleton County had already been simmering for years. Community Sentiment […]
The Real Problems We Have With Emergency Services in Falmouth and Pendleton County as a Whole There are many good people involved in the emergency services of Pendleton County, Butler, and Falmouth. Let me be clear. We support every first […]
January 2, 1776 was not the day the world changed.But it was the day it stood still long enough for men to realize change was inevitable. Washington steadied the troops. Thomas Paine prepared his firebrand words in Common Sense.And a […]
Let’s set aside the PR posts, the emotional buffering, the polished paragraphs that sound more like a ChatGPT draft than a real person under public scrutiny. Let’s deal in what’s actually true. Mayor Sabrina Hazen says she “felt blindsided” when […]
In a letter posted last night, the City of Falmouth tried to paper over the controversy by insisting,“Don’t worry, we have fully funded the Fire Department.” But reading between the lines, this letter reads more like a last-minute PR bandage […]
Shut Down the Fire Department After two years of inflating the police budget beyond reasonAfter floating an ordinance to mandate a certain number of city cops… after proposing to hire a city manager for a town that barely covers 1.3 […]
Where Geography Made the CallFalmouth didn’t become important because someone declared it so. It became important because of where it sat. By the early 1800s, the settlement that would become Falmouth occupied a rare geographic position at the confluence of […]
Milford Road is coming apart at the seams, literally. After weeks of rain and months of neglect, it is not just potholes we are dodging anymore. Several residents have reached out, and they are not exaggerating. Sections of the road […]
“The Crop That Built the County” For over 150 years, tobacco was the economic and cultural cornerstone of Pendleton County. From the early frontier days through New Deal farm policies and the 2004 federal buyout, tobacco defined life for farmers […]
