A Gazette editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia got some welcome news last week. A round of President Obama’s POWER initiative grants will pour $16 million into infrastructure and entrepreneurship projects to help West Virginians get back to work. It is money well spent and well-deserved. Just[Read More…]
Month: August 2016
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Wednesday, Aug. 31
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. TRUMP MAKING SURPRISE VISIT TO MEXICO The Republican presidential nominee is scheduled to[Read More…]
Teach students not to get a job, but create one
A Daily Mail editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For generations, the societal expectations for recent high school and college graduates were simple: get a job. It’s time for that line of thinking to change. Not that we don’t want new graduates to work. Quite the opposite — society[Read More…]
Santucci headed for Charleston Distance Run
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Before injury dashed her dreams, distance runner Clara Santucci lined up at the 2016 Olympic marathon trials in February ready to chase down the ultimate prize in representing Team USA. On Saturday, Santucci will lead the crowd of nearly 1,000 expected runners at the 44th annual Charleston Distance[Read More…]
Lewisburg couple moving, restoring old depot
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The Lewisburg & Ronceverte Railroad once again rode the rails — or at least a pair of long steel beams — on Sunday, as its 106-year-old depot building made a trip of nearly 1 mile through downtown Lewisburg. The trip came aboard a house-mover’s trailer en route[Read More…]
Clendenin to be site of $2M natural gas truck facility
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — MarkWest, a natural gas company with operations in several states, is planning to build a trucking facility for natural gas liquids near Clendenin. The company filed for a building permit for the proposed project with Kanawha County late last week. According to the permit application, the loading facility[Read More…]
Wheeling area parents, providers discuss EpiPens
WHEELING, W.Va. — As controversy swirls over price hikes for Mylan’s EpiPens, generic epinephrine auto-injectors offer a less-costly alternative but require training to administer the drug properly. Each device provides an emergency injection of epinephrine, a medicine used for life-threatening allergic reactions. Mylan has responded to the criticism by announcing[Read More…]
Top floor of Wheeling school too hot for students
WHEELING, W.Va. — Portable air conditioners continue to cool the first and second floors at Ritchie Elementary School, but stifling heat still is keeping students from attending classes on the third floor. Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Ritchie will continue reporting to temporary classrooms at Wheeling Middle School until at[Read More…]
Congress should bar stream rule
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — When Barack Obama became president, more than half the electricity generated in the United States came from coal-fired power plants. Coal was the most economical means of providing electricity. Now, electricity from gas costs about the same as that from coal. Only[Read More…]
Five Randolph County schools dismissed due to heat
ELKINS, W.Va. — Five Randolph County schools were dismissed early on Monday afternoon because of high classroom temperatures. At noon on Monday, schools without air conditioning around the county sent their students home. Temperatures within the facilities were reported to be excessive by the school’s principals. Superintendent Pam Hewitt said,[Read More…]
