A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Ladies and gentlemen, don’t you dare start those racing engines! When I heard about the Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan on Friday, I thought someone was pulling an April Fool’s Day joke on me. But no, it’s[Read More…]
Month: April 2016
Marshall prof’s baseball experience led to book
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Kat Williams was growing up in a working-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, she didn’t always get it right. Her clothes weren’t right. The character on her lunchbox wasn’t right. And, struggling through school with undiagnosed dyslexia, her schoolwork certainly wasn’t right. But there was one place[Read More…]
WVU helps three prisoners get clemency
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Three of the people who will soon be leaving federal prisons because of a Presidential clemency order, had their cases handled through a WVU program. Last week, President Obama issued clemency to 61 prisons ending their prison sentences. Dwayne Walker, Byron McDade and Marvin Bailey will be[Read More…]
WV Capitol ‘canned’ during Clay Center event
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For the 10th year, local groups and businesses built all kinds of things out of cans of food to help the Covenant House food pantry during the annual Canstruction event The structures were built in the lobby of the Clay Center, and are available for public view until[Read More…]
WV feeding sites worry about food stamp changes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state’s plan to make some food stamp recipients in nine counties work or train or face losing those benefits will ultimately increase the burden on West Virginia’s food banks, pantries and soup kitchens, advocates say. The state Department of Health and Human Resources announced late last year[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Monday, April 4
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, April 4, 2016. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. EU REFUGEE DEPORTATION PLAN UNDERWAY The first vessel transporting migrants from Greece docks[Read More…]
Pearl S. Buck Writing Competition nears its deadline, cash prizes, scholarship
WVU plans Pearl S. Buck ‘Living Gateway’ Conference Sept. 11-13 GLENVILLE, W.Va. — The late Pearl S. Buck, a Mountain State native, Nobel Prize author and humanitarian, has been the subject of a broadly-based West Virginia University Libraries Committee’s effort to revive her life and legacy to the general public, students and[Read More…]
Libertarian Party of West Virginia Announces Full Slate for Statewide Offices: Brenton Ricketts to Run for State Auditor
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — Brenton (“Brent”) Ricketts of Harpers Ferry today announced his candidacy for State Auditor on the ticket of the Libertarian Party of West Virginia. The Libertarian Party of West Virginia (LPWV) will hold its state nominating convention on Saturday, May 7, at the Sutton Days Inn and Conference Center[Read More…]
Ex-Daily Mail, Gazette writers to be honored posthumously
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two former Charleston Newspapers sportswriters are among the five graduates of Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications who are being inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame this fall. Mike Cherry and Jody Jividen, as well as Charles Bailey, Chad Pennington and Peter[Read More…]
Putnam County re-enactors keep it civil
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The 18th-annual Putnam County Civil War weekend started Thursday morning at Valley Park, in Hurricane, and will continue through the weekend until 4 p.m. Sunday. The event commemorates two area land battles of the war — the July 17, 1861, Battle of Scary Creek and the March 28,[Read More…]
