Month: August 2015

Dead at Deadline!

By Kevin Slimp The News Guru [email protected] Emergencies are just part of the game in our business! In retrospect, I love the email subject line: “Dead at deadline.” The email came to me at 6:15 last night, just as I was getting ready to take my two teenagers out for[Read More…]

This week in history: Aug. 12-19

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Aug. 13, 1900: Railroad mogul and founder of Huntington, Collis Potter Huntington, died. Raised in poverty, Huntington went west when gold was discovered in[Read More…]

SBA boosts economic impact of accelerators with $4.4 million in prizes

West Virginia organization among recipients WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the 80 winners of the second annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. The recipients represent 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico including WV Hive from Beckley, West Virginia. Accelerators serve entrepreneurs in[Read More…]

WV Women Work: State losing nonprofit that helps women find work?

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — West Virginia Women Work has helped women find employment for 15 years, but that is about to end. With training sites in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg, the nonprofit WVWW has trained and placed hundreds of women in non-traditional, higher-paying jobs across the state since 2000.  The nonprofit’s 11-week,[Read More…]

Capito: Devastating Clean Power Grab will harm American families

“Mr. President, your Clean Power Grab will devastate already hurting communities in my state. It will cause economic pain for working families across the country. And it will forever harm our energy landscape.” – Senator Capito WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment[Read More…]

Beckley native finds success in fashion design

BECKLEY, W.Va. — In many ways, fashion designer Ripley Rader has come a long way since her high school days of wearing window treatment miniskirts. In others, she’s the same girl, with different fabric, a different name and a different ZIP code. In the late 1990s, Suzanne Rader — Ripley[Read More…]

Final EPA plan ‘a much tougher road’ for WV

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia faces a requirement for tougher emissions cuts under a final federal rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas pollution from the nation’s power plants, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents and interviews with experts who are reviewing the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan,” released earlier this[Read More…]

Photo of W.Va. veteran prominent in Calif. museum

SAN FRANCISCO — Jim Pappas walked through the museum doors and exclaimed, “That’s my brother!” Pappas, 91, of Wood County immediately recognized his brother Paul as one of three crew members in large photographs in the USS Pampanito submarine museum at Pier 45 on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Pappas was[Read More…]

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