The Year in Review

LOOKING BACK
The Top PutnamLIES.com Stories Of 2010

It's a news tradition to look back at the previous year's top stories.
With that in mind, PutnamLIES.com is digging back into our
archives to bring you our top news stories from 2010.

We'll let you decide which is the most important or which is the "biggest story." We are just going to present what we feel is the most memorable. So please, kick back with your notebook or netbook, grab a cold Bartles & Jaymes, and enjoy our "Year in Review."

Halburn Convicted Of Trespassing
The year started off with a bang when Halburn was convicted of trespassing before Kanawha County Magistrate Traci Carper-Strickland.
Hallburn was found guilty of trespassing charges stemming from an August 30, 2009 incident at the Shawnee Park pool in Institute WV. He was fined $250 plus court costs of $159.50. He immediately appealed to Circuit Court.

Supreme Court Rejects Case
On January 14, The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia refused 5-0 to hear Halburn's appeal of a circuit court decision granting summary judgment to the City of Hurricane on Halburn’s claim of retaliatory selective enforcement of a municipal ordinance.
The case was Delores Halburn and Mark Halburn v. City of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ben Newhouse, Cleveland Construction, and Kanawha Stone Company, Inc.

DUI Scam Story
We got an anonymous comment from someone in Point Pleasant (wonder which Toady that could be?) saying that Halburn had been arrested for aggravated DUI. After checking, PutnamLIES.com determined that this was a false report. It was nothing more than a blatant fabrication, maliciously left in order to mislead PutnamLIES.com into printing a false story, so some fat bastard could try and sue us.


Defends Child Abuser
Halburn calls convicted child abuser/fellow sociopath Troy Suxton a "local legend" and immediately begins taking up for him.
Psychos of a feather and all that. Is there something in the water here?

Walmart Wall
In February, Walmart notified the city of Hurricane that they had no plans to build nor would they allow others to build a sound wall or plant trees on their property, shattering Halburn's dreams of someone else taking responsibility for his problems.

FOIA/Zoning Change Fiasco
After receiving some documents from another one of his endless strings of FOIA requests, Halburn ran an article "proving" that the city changed the zoning of his second wife's house. There was only one thing wrong. Halburn neglected to make sure that the properties in the documents were actually his wife's.
They weren't.
He was so anxious to bray about "nailing" the Mayor that he didn't even bother to read the description of the land or look at the maps of the properties that had their zoning changed.
That's OK. PutnamLIES.com pointed it out. Once again publicly making him look like the asshole he is.
It is important to note that Halburn has never been able to produce any documents to prove that the zoning was changed.

Toady Arrested and Convicted
In March, Halburn butt boy Lawrence J Smith (alias Jay Lawrence Smith), another alleged journalist, was arrested for trespassing and making a scene when his demands to see some documents without filing a FOIA were not met. After a trial in September and an appeal in December, he met the same fate as his portly mentor did earlier in the year: Guilty.

Beyond The Backyard, Sheetz Force Ads To Be Pulled
Halburn once wrote a story about the "Beyond the Backyard" foundation.
Afterwards, he approached them looking for sponsorship, and they said they weren't interested. He then proceeded to steal the logo and place it on his website as an ad. It ran for almost a year before a PutnamLIES.com correspondent contacted the foundation and asked if they authorized its placement. They said that they did not, and they ordered Halburn to remove it immediately.
Sheetz's corporate offices got into the act when Halburn started running an "ad" featuring their logo. He was forced to pull that as well. 

Walmart Blog Disappears
In May, a source of amusement for everyone disappeared. Halburn pulled the Walmart blog for the third and final time after being pounded on here and Tyler Hollywood's site for his distortions and misrepresentations. He couldn't take the heat so he took the blog down. This pretty much proves what everyone has been saying along: The excessive noise up there was coming from him.

Trespassing Conviction Upheld
Also in May, Halburn's appeal of his January trespassing conviction to Kanawha County Circuit Court was held. Judge Tod Kaufman heard the case and after verbally bitch slapping Halburn, found him guilty, again. PutnamLIES.com was the only media outlet to cover his trespassing conviction and had exclusive audio coverage of the trial.
After the fact, Halburn continues to accuse Kaufman of being a homosexual. Making him a homophobe as well as a racist. We're just surprised he didn't make an anti-Semitic remark as well.

Office Location Exposed
We exposed the fact, and Halburn finally admitted, that his office was not, as he has maintained for years, located right down the road just outside of the Hurricane city limits, but instead in his second wife's house. 

Plagiarism
The long awaited travel segment on Jacksonville was printed, only to be revealed by PutnamLIES.com that every photo and over a quarter of the 500 word article were stolen from another website. 4 months to write 500 words.But what really takes the prize is that he stole a post that Girl of Words made on her blog, and posted it as a comment on some lame DMV hating blog that he started and signed her name. She would never in a million years send anything to Halburn. Unless it's a restraining order.
The DMCA notice that Wordpress received took care of that one pretty quickly.
Later in the year, he printed a press release from Marshall University word for word, put his name on it and passed it off as if he wrote it. 

0-3 with PSC Complaints
Halburn filed 3 petty complaints with the WV PSC in 2010. Every single one of them was denied.

In April he suffered 5 momentary electricity outages, precipitating a complaint against AEP. He wanted free electricity for life as compensation.
On the same day he filed against Suddenlink because his phone went out and they didn't carry the Pirates opening day game. He wanted them to give him free service for life
Then in July his phone jack was broken, his modem was unplugged, and he needed a VCR hooked up. When they didn't come immediately, he filed another complaint, again demanding free service for a year.

Stalking
Halburn messaged girlofwords in June to tell her he'd be in DC later in the summer to interview a Washington Nationals pitching coach from Putnam County whose name he didn't even know. He said he was telling her this ahead of time so she wouldn't spread any more stories about him stalking her.
That had nothing to do with it. It was done to intimidate her. He can't leave her alone and it continues to this day.
Keep it up, fatboy. You're going to get what's coming to you.
 
PutnamLIES.com Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary

In 2009, for the first time, Putnam County citizens had access to unbiased daily news reports when this publisher starts PutnamLIES.com. We soon become the most-read source for unbiased Putnam County news and information, and add "Putnam County's REAL News Leader" to our name. In August we celebrated our first birthday.

A to Z Super Filthymarket Closes
A long time Hurricane institution, the A to Z Supermarket was closed by the health department after they discovered over 130 serious violations during an inspection. PutnamLIES.com correctly reported that it would not reopen.
Halburn kept insisting it would but was proven wrong once again when they closed their doors for good in October. 

Form Letters From Politicians
After being exposed multiple times by PutnamLIES.com for stealing letters to the editor from other sources, Halburn was reduced to running press releases from politicians as letters promoting their agendas.

Started Running Coupons
Proving that his blog is truly nothing more than a cluttered advertising shopper, Halburn starts running coupons.

Continues Running "News" Stories About "Advertisers"
He continued his unethical practice of running fawning stories about his so-called advertisers under the guise of news.

Pool Whining Continues
Halburn continued his yearly whining about the pools closing the last week in August due to the lifeguards all going back to school. Which led directly to:

Halburn Calls Karen Haynes A Bitch
In October, Halburn started frequenting the trailer park of the internet, Topix. Posting under a number of names, he immediately made the place about 10 times douchier than it already was. While complaining about the charity dog swim that is held annually just before the pool closes for the summer, he claimed that the reason that the pools were kept open was that Joe Haynes was "a dog lover. He loves bitches", obviously referring to Haynes' wife Karen and her untiring work to raise funds for a new animal shelter in the county.
A typical remark for a no-class scumbag like Halburn to make.

Halburn Strokes Out
In October, the news the world was waiting for was released. Halburn had stroked out.
Unfortunately for everyone it was only Bell's Palsy and he is expected to recover.
But he does have diabetes and high blood pressure, so there is still hope.


Trader Joe's and Woodmen Visit
After Halburn's latest attempt to browbeat Trader Joe's into opening a store in the area, their corporate offices visited PutnamLIES.com multiple times to find out just what kind of person Halburn really is.
After Halburn harassed several people at Buffalo's Octoberfest where he was representing Woodmen of the World insurance, their corporate office also visited a number of times to read about Halburn's douchery. He's not the type of person an upstanding company like that needs representing them.

Election Warning
Just before the general election in November, the West Virginia Secretary of State sent a warning to Putnam County officials that Halburn might attempt to create a scene and try to disrupt the electoral process. Due to the proactive efforts of the prosecutor and sheriff's office a potential problem was averted.

Haynes Reelected
Much to the chagrin of Halburn, Joe Haynes was overwhelmingly reelected by the people of Putnam County to serve another term on the County Commission.

Desperation Redesign
Late in the year, in a desperate attempt to attract advertisers and bolster his shrinking readership, Halburn had his news blog redesigned. Now with a hit counter so he can falsify the number of imaginary readers that he thinks his site gets. He even let the genius that did the redesign to change his URL from a .com to a far less desirable .net.
MySpace 1994 has become MySpace 2000. Same old shit with a barely new look. Proving you can't polish a turd.

Halburn NOT Arrested This Year
Unfortunately he wasn't arrested this year. It certainly wasn't for lack of trying though. We strongly believe that PutnamLIES.com's coverage of his antics deterred him from behaving in a way that would get him arrested and make him subjected to more ridicule here.

So in summary, his serial plagiarism continues, but at a reduced level.

His baseless attacks and bullying have slowed.

His theft of other photographers' work has slowed.

His endless whining about Walmart continued, but once people started answering back, he ran like the coward that he is and pulled the blog.

We exposed what others had long thought, that many of his ads are placed there without the permission of the businesses they represent in order to sucker others into advertising. He even admitted he runs the ads for free as a "reward."

We were the only media outlet to cover his trespassing conviction and provide audio of that trial.

He has even given up trying to defend himself here. Oh, he reads us every day, but he just doesn't have the balls to even leave a comment. Which says a lot. It's hard to defend yourself against the truth.

There was a decrease in articles here at PutnamLIES.com however. There's a good reason for that. Halburn has cut way back on his assholery. Oh, he's still douching up the county, but he knows that PutnamLIES.com will be all over any misstep that he makes.
Our mission all along has been to force him to act in a more civilized manner. Before he started getting pounded from all sides he was free to attack anyone for any reason without repercussions. Not anymore.
PutnamLIES.com is here to answer any attack that Halburn makes. And now his output shows it.

This site has become a resource for people seeking the truth about Halburn.
Whenever a future employer Googles his name, they'll be able to find this site and see the truth about him. If you Google the word Halburn, the number one search result is for his mental evaluation.

Someday, and that day is not too far away, a little boy will be able to see just what kind of asshole his daddy really is.
The internet is forever. This site and the information on it will follow Halburn around until the day he dies.

We invite everyone who is sick of Halburn's abuse to continue to contact PutnamLIES.com

If we've forgotten anything, please submit it to PutnamLIES.com@gmail.com and we will consider it for publication.