Read Aloud wants your story, attendance at Read-A-Palooza CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Children from homes with 100 or more books score up to 33 percent higher than their peers from homes with few books on tests in science, civics, geography, economics, math and visual arts, according to data from the National Assessment[Read More…]
Month: February 2016
Production company documents life in Green Bank
MARLINTON, W.Va. — When New York production company Partisan Pictures was given the task to film and produce a three-part series about technology and the Internet, the crew searched for interesting stories to include and came across Green Bank – the small town at the center of the National Radio[Read More…]
No lie — this Pinnochio made of snow
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Longtime WV reporter, columnist dead at 82
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Cherished by her community and respected by her colleagues in the fields of journalism and history, Debbie Schwarz Simpson — a newspaper reporter, columnist and author, who died Tuesday at age 82 in a Fredericksburg, Va., hospital — left an indelible impression on everyone she met. Simpson’s[Read More…]
WV burial program for poor to run out of money
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A program to help with the funeral expenses of people who cannot afford them will run out of money by the end of the month, state officials said. In a letter, dated Jan. 19, 2016, to Robert C. Kimes, the executive director of the Funeral Directors Association[Read More…]
Wood County town sees rise in C8 in water
VIENNA, W.Va. — Samples taken from Vienna’s water supplies in May and December showed an increase in the amount of C8 in the city’s water supply. During Thursday’s meeting of the Vienna City Council, Mayor Randy Rapp said the results came from samples taken in May and December and they[Read More…]
Hopes high for development of vast WV mine site
MADISON, W.Va. — During an interview with the Coal Valley News Feb. 11, Kris Mitchell, director of the Boone County Community and Economic Development Corporation (EDC), stated plans are moving ahead for the eventual development for the former Hobet mine site. During his Jan. 13 State of the State Address,[Read More…]
Martinsburg nixes permit for Confederate flag event
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Martinsburg City Council members have voted unanimously and without discussion to deny a request by the West Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to parade through downtown Martinsburg on March 5 to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the “birth” of the Confederate flag. “It’s still[Read More…]
Martinsburg adds LGBT protection to ordinance
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Joe Mercurio remembers what it was like growing up in Berkeley County as a gay man. “I grew up here and left here because I did not think this would be a good place to live because I am gay,” Mercurio said Thursday. He is originally from[Read More…]
Tomblin vetoes right to work, prevailing wage bills
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin issued vetoes Thursday on SB1, the right to work bill, and HB 4005, repealing the prevailing wage, both measures high on the GOP agenda this year. Tomblin said he disputed that the state needed a right to work law. “The issue of right to[Read More…]
