By Don Smith WV Press Executive Director It’s been four days since the flood. State and national officials have declared much of the state a disaster area. The recovery has started. But when will the flood recovery end? We should not consider the flood recovery finished until the elderly women stop[Read More…]
Month: June 2016
Fairmont paper marks 1866 start of ‘The Vedette’
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — For 150 years, the Times West Virginian and its predecessors have been serving Fairmont and Marion County. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the launch of The Vedette, the weekly newspaper that started in 1866. That newspaper would two years later be renamed The West Virginian and[Read More…]
Museum end means fresh start for Marx toy artifacts
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Although the Marx Toy Museum’s run in Moundsville will soon come to an end, curator Francis Turner believes the change will be a fresh start for the site’s beloved artifacts of playtimes past. The museum, which Turner began with his personal toy collection in 2001, will open[Read More…]
Marshall proposes 5 percent tuition increase
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Preparation paid off for Marshall University officials in working under the circumstances created by the fiscal year 2017 budget impasse among West Virginia legislators. When members of Marshall’s Board of Governors meet on Wednesday, June 29, in the Memorial Student Center on campus, they’ll have the chance[Read More…]
Jefferson County woman is new Miss West Virginia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Morgan Breeden, Miss Jefferson County, was crowned Miss West Virginia 2016, and Grace Aulabaugh, Miss Berkeley County’s Outstanding Teen, was named Miss West Virginia’s Outstanding Teen for 2016 as 43 young women from across the state competed for the two crowns Sunday, June 26, at the Metropolitan[Read More…]
WV officials still committed to Promise scholarship
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The West Virginia PROMISE Scholarship program has provided approximately $400 million to 35,000 students from every county in West Virginia. Recently, there have been concerns that the program would be impacted by budget cuts, but officials say that’s not what the future holds. “In 2015, the PROMISE[Read More…]
Greenbrier County residents have harrowing stories
RAINELLE — Tim Fitzwater stood on the railroad tracks behind his home in the pouring rain, just feet from the surging Meadow River, as he watched his neighbors and their homes wash away along with everything he had. The Greenbrier County resident was witness to one of the worst portions[Read More…]
WV flood victims facing financial uncertainty
BROOKS, W.Va. — James Graham sat in a silver pick-up truck loaded with a mattress, nightstands and other bedroom furnishings Sunday. The 20-something father and husband was more pensive than talkative; he did ask what is going to happen to his young family. Like an estimated thousands of other people[Read More…]
Covering devastation brings flood of memories
A column by Pamela Pritt, reporter for The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Along with the floods that devastated our region Thursday came a flood of memories. It was 1985. It was 1996. And then, it was Marlinton. The ’85, was, of course, the worst in the town’s history. Combined with the[Read More…]
West Virginians again reach out to help neighbors
A column by Cheryl Keenan, editor of The Fayette Tribune OAK HILL, W.Va. — The stories are just beginning to be told as I sit quietly Friday for the first time since flooding started across the state yesterday. There’s a story for every person affected, and likely some will never[Read More…]