HURRICANE, W.Va. -- Putnam County Parks and Recreation announces the Waves of Fun schedule and a special event planned for the water park attraction located off of Great Teays Road.

HURRICANE, W.Va. -- Hurricane High School is soon to add new resources to their science department.

PUTNAM COUNTY -- Fourth-grade Buffalo Elementary student Rachel Martin has achieved third place at state level competition, in the third and fourth grade category, of the West Virginia Young Writer's contest. Rachel Hull is Martin's teacher.

Winfield High School senior Caleb Ashley signed up to play basketball for West Virginia Wesleyan where he will be majoring in business on Tuesday morning. He may also play baseball for the Bobcats.

The Redding Brothers have been busy trekking across the Middle East, performing for military bases all over Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan since leaving the United States on April 29. The concert locations have ranged from beside rocket bunkers to inside large tents, and the brothers have met and performed for the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, and the British, Canadian, Bulgarian, and Dutch coalition forces.

HURRICANE, W.Va. -- Putnam County Parks and Recreation is now offering the community a new shelter area with all the perks to make summer activity planning a breeze.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday James Vance, aka Cousin Pookie.

HUNTINGTON -- Now Craig Ratanamorn can take it all in and exhale.

HUNTINGTON -- Marshall and the Cincinnati Reds are teaming up for the Great American Thunderfest.

Let's take inventory here. I don't care much for Robert Downey Jr. I am not a big fan of Gwyneth Paltrow. I have not seen Terrence Howard in anything that I liked. I do, however, like Jeff Bridges.

Marshall has been playing baseball against West Virginia University since William Howard Taft was President.

Teays Physical Therapy Center, Inc. and The Putnam Herald are pleased to present this week's "Diamond Gamers of the Week" awards to Jason Lewis and Jessica Blake from Buffalo High School.

Mary Jane Howard was well into her fourth decade when she noticed her first symptoms. She was experiencing unusual fatigue and abnormal pain in different parts of her body.

Winfield United Methodist Church is hosting Bible Blast-a community fun night Wednesday, May 21, at the church, located behind U.S. Rt. 35 McDonald's.

HURRICANE -- Bark at the Park offers a day of demonstrations, instruction and play for canines and their owners while raising funds for a new animal relief center in Putnam County.

Below is a list of programs that the Tri-County YMCA is offering in the next couple of weeks.

n Fibromyalgia Support Group, 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 12. The first meeting of the new group will correspond with National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Questions, call 304-757-6999. WomenCare Birth Center, 3911 Teays Valley Road, Hurricane.

Twenty students in the third grade at Conner Street Elementary recently collected donations for the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Students participated in a Math-a-Thon program to improve their math skills and to collect donations to help a child's life. Students raised $1,763.86 for St. Jude's.

MONDAY: breakfast, omelet, toast; lunch, pizza (school's choice), corn on the cob

HURRICANE, W.Va. -- Hurricane Police added its third canine officer to its unit.