Headlines from 25 years ago this week, as seen in the June 7, 2000 edition of the Wood County Democrat “Former police officer (Ira Van Cleave) has a second career as author, illustrator of ...

I had a person stop by the office wanting to sell a dining room set in a classified ad. When I found out the name of the family it had belonged to I told her…”We need to do a story, not a classified!” ...