Vicky Bullett

Vicky Bullett played on the U.S. Olympic 1988 gold medal basketball team

The Glenville State College Pioneer Center was renamed the Heflin Center in honor of the president

A 1,000-vehicle parking lot and visitor complex was built outside the lower town at Harpers Ferry

West Virginia was reapportioned from four congressional districts to three following the 1990 census

The Hatfield-McCoy Trail Coalition was formed

Harold Hayslett's article "Shaping Blocks for Cello Sides" was published in The Journal of the Violin Society of America

Jordache Enterprises purchased Heck's for $1 and assumption of large debts

The Itmann Company Store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Pare Lorentz was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History

Melvin Lentz cut through a 20-inch ponderosa pine in 19.76 seconds with a one-person crosscut saw

Reported 128,168 manufactured homes in West Virginia

The B&O Shop in Martinsburg closed

The Martinsburg Evening Journal changed from an afternoon to a morning newspaper and changed its name to Morning Journal

Kathy Mattea was named the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year

Arch A. Moore Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, tax fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice, and was imprisoned

The first video lottery machines were installed at the Mountaineer Race Track

Vicky Bullett and the U.S. women's basketball team won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Night of the Hunter was adapted for television

Arnout "Sonny" Hyde resumed editorship of the Wonderful West Virginia under a private contract

Jackson County was reported with the second-highest number of farms in West Virginia

D-Mac Industries bought the nail plant and began operating it as Wheeling-La Belle Nail Company

The Robert C. Byrd Clinic opened at the School of Osteopathic Medicine

David Price was hired as Library Commission executive secretary

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published Saving Shiloh, the last of the Shiloh trilogy

Richard Curry wrote Lost Highway

The International Documentary Association created the Pare Lorentz Award to honor the best documentary film of the year

Video slot machines began operating at Charles Town Racetrack

The West Virginia Graduate College in South Charleston merged with Marshall University

Robert Drasnin recorded an album of standards titled The Blue Dahlias

Butch Miles rejoined the Count Basie Orchestra

Robert W. Stephens Jr. became president of Ohio Valley College (now University)

Blind Alfred Reed's complete recordings appeared on compact disc on the Document label.

Chris Sarandon cited the influence of WVU Professor Patrick Ward Gainer

David Selby received the first Life Achievement Award from WVU's Creative Arts College

Michael Smith's song "Friends" was named the number-one song of all time by Christian music magazine, CCM

Management of Spring Hill Cemetery was placed in the hands of a board of commissioners

"Troop" designations replaced former companies in reorganization of State Police

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Weirton Steel and steel unions lobbied to curb imports

Stone & Thomas was sold to the Elder-Beerman Company

The Huntington Tobacco Warehouse closed its doors

Tobacco lawsuit was settled with $1.8 billion in 25 years

The Universalist Meeting House in Marshall County congregation disbanded

WesBanco acquired the Hunter Insurance Agency

The name was changed from the Charleston Symphony Orchestra to the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

The Doc Williams Country Store in Wheeling closed

The modern courthouse at Winfield was completed

Fayette Station Bridge was renamed the Tunney Hunsaker Bridge

Only four ferries still operating on Ohio River

The liturgies at St. George were still being chanted in Arabic

Barbara Smith and Kirk Judd edited Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999

Louie Glass was sold to Glassworks West Virginia

Ellie Mannette founded Mannette Steel Drums, Ltd

Ellie Mannette received the Trinidad and Tobago Chaconia Silver Medal from the minister of culture

Darrell McGraw won an important settlement against Ohio direct mail operator Benjamin Suarez

New Mennonite congregation started in Hampshire County

Reported 13 Mennonite congregations in West Virginia with total of 568 adherents

Randy Moss led the NFL in touchdown catches

Randy Moss signed a $75 million contract extension with an $18 million signing bonus making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL

The Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia received a national award from the National Endowment for the Arts

West Virginia experienced high losses of native mussels in the Ohio River due to competition of zebra mussels

Walter Dean Myers received the first ever Printz Award for Monster

First Market Bank locations in West Virginia adopted the name National Bank of Commerce

Leonard "Lynn" Davis died

Ohio Valley College (now University) began offering secondary education in English math, natural sciences, physical ed, and social studies and special education

Brad Paisley was named "Top New Male Vocalist" by the Academy of Country Music