HUNTINGTON — The annual Antiques Show & Sale sponsored by the Huntington, WV Pilot Club, scheduled for Aug. 13-15 at the Mountain Health Arena, has been canceled due to coronavirus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has done a number on entertainment venues over the past year-plus.
âThe live entertainment industry was the first to shut down,â Mountain Health Arena Director Cindy Collins said. âAnd it will be the last to fully reopen. Being a multi-billion dollar business, it was very hard hit.â But Collins said the industry began immediately to make the necessary changes and adaptations, using the enforced down time to plan for when and how to reopen. Collins said those plans were made from a global perspective, with information gathered from multiple countries.
Mountain Health Arena is owned by ASM Global, a management company that covers five continents and 14 countries with more than 300 venues worldwide. It is now open and is the site of live shows again.
LISTED: Two Barboursville residents and one from Culloden were among more than 8,400 students qualifying for the deanâs list at Ohio University, Athens, for the fall semester. They include Chris Courts and Jessica Napier, both of Barboursville, and Chris Camp of Culloden, College of Health Sciences and Professions.
POSTPONED: Previously scheduled for Nov. 5, 2020, and March 25, 2021, the Gary Allan concert has been rescheduled for Friday, Sept. 17, at Mountain Health Arena.
TWINS: Eddie and Vicki Smith of Steele Memorial United Methodist Church in Barboursville became great-grandparents of twin boys born Feb. 23. Born to Keegan and Kristi Ray of Greensboro, N.C., were Quinton Tucker, weighing 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and Murphy Owen at 5 pounds, 7 ounces. Congratulations on this double blessing.
HUNTINGTON â While the latest winter storm has already passed through Huntington, the city is still responding to ongoing crisis caused by the ice and snow.
During a Huntington City Council meeting Monday night, Mayor Steve Williams gave an overview of the cityâs response to the three consecutive storms Huntington was hit by in the past two weeks.
Williams said 42 employees from the cityâs Public Works Department worked for 11 days straight responding to the ice storms.
He said 94 trees were removed from public roads, including six trees that fell overnight and were removed Monday morning from Mallory Court. Williams said 20 trees were removed from roads after the first ice storm on Feb. 11 and 68 trees were removed last week after the second ice storm on Feb. 15.
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