By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Many area veterans came out to a special picnic Sunday in Parkersburg to spend time with other veterans remembering their service and those with whom they served. Around 200 people attended the ninth annual Memorial Day Cookout to honor[Read More…]
Month: May 2017
Hancock County bridge named for local Marine in Weirton
By SUMMER WALLACE-MINGER The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WEIRTON, W.Va. — Marine Cpl. Mark Cool was 19 when he was injured in the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam on Feb. 27, 1968, and died three days later in Okinawa, Japan. Almost 40 years later, the Colliers Way Bridge, near[Read More…]
Muslim civil rights organization to open WV affiliate
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization plans to open a satellite office in West Virginia. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is currently seeking an executive director for a West Virginia office. CAIR works to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans[Read More…]
Appalachian Power adapts battery to help regional power grid
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An electric substation under construction in eastern Cabell County means a battery installation will find its third purpose in life. Instead of preventing power fluctuations in a limited area or providing backup power when a transmission line goes down, the 2-megawatt[Read More…]
Editorial: States should do more to evaluate tax breaks
The Herald-Dispatch editorial Incentives and tax breaks play an important part in most state and local governments’ efforts to attract business. This region recently saw that at work with the announcement last month that Braidy Industries plans to build an aluminum mill in the South Shore, Kentucky, area about 15[Read More…]
Editorial: Loose lips birth deadly results
The Journal editorial Keeping secrets can be just as important as uncovering them for intelligence agencies. An enemy’s knowledge of what one knows can be dangerous. The anger of British officials about leaks regarding their investigation of the Manchester concert hall bombing is understandable, then. Americans ought to be just[Read More…]
Every picture tells a story. Register-Herald creating keepsake photo book, calls for submissions
By MICHELLE JAMES The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Photographs. They’ve been handed down generation after generation. Each one tells a story of years gone by. Of a time simpler time. Of a harder time. Of our history. The hills, rivers, valleys, coalfields and railroads of southern West Virginia are ripe[Read More…]
Frontier Communications announces enhanced broadband network extension in WV
Investment to improve connectivity for 134,000 Households Release from Frontier Communications: CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Frontier Communications is making enhanced broadband service available to previously unserved residents throughout West Virginia. Elena Kilpatrick, Frontier Senior Vice President of Operations, has announced that connected communities in 35 counties now may access increased[Read More…]
Lauttamus announces expansion, new location
Release from Lauttamus Communications WEIRTON, W.Va. — Lauttamus Communications & Security has announced a major expansion to better serve customers in Western Pennsylvania and North Central West Virginia. Lauttamus, headquarters in Weirton, outgrew its previous business location in Pennsylvania and will now be operating out of a new facility at 29 Noblestown Road in Carnegie,[Read More…]
WV Gov. Justice takes active role in compromise negotiations
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail Gov. Jim Justice employed his version of shuttle diplomacy Thursday, shuttling between cliques of legislators housed in various Capitol building meeting rooms in what turned out to be a daylong effort to try to come up with a compromise between glaringly different Senate and House[Read More…]