By RACHEL HAWKINS The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — After more than a year of work, the Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is ready to roll out new endeavors to bring more tourism to the area. Greater Morgantown CVB Executive Director Susan Riddle spent the last few months speaking at council meetings for local municipalities in[Read More…]
Month: October 2017
Greenbrier County CVB wins international award for website
Mountain Messenger LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The Greenbrier County Convention and Visitors Bureau has been recognized with an international Gold MarCom award for its website. The site was developed in partnership with its Agency of Record, Fahlgren Mortine, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and with offices in Charleston, WV. “Our GreenbrierWV.com website[Read More…]
Manchin talks budget, opioids in Berkeley Springs
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — The scariest threat facing America right now? Is it nuclear war, or illegal immigration, or global warming, or possible election tampering by a foreign power? No, according to U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who held a “community town hall” meeting at[Read More…]
W.Va. Jobs Investment Trust put $11 million into 20 companies, Zulauf: ‘Of the 20, at least half are at or beyond profitability’
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There are those who think the state-sanctioned West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust (WVJIT) venture capital fund is all one big boondoggle. Pat Bond, longtime state businessman and a member of the Investment Trust’s board of directors, is not one of them.[Read More…]
Railroad Days helps history settle down
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald HINTON, W.Va. — A Pullman train car was once a symbol of luxury, and for four days this October that luxury was returned to Hinton. On a cold, gray Sunday afternoon, as the Hinton Railroad Days neared completion for 2017 and passengers disembarked to explore the old C&O[Read More…]
Putnam teacher gets $25,000 Millken Award
Staff report Charleston Gazette-Mail WINFIELD, W.Va. — A Winfield Middle School teacher was surprised with a $25,000 award at a school assembly this morning. Erika Klose, a science teacher at the school, received the Milken Educator Award. The award “not only aims to reward great teachers, but to celebrate, elevate[Read More…]
Meteorologists predict colder, snowier winter
By CARTER WALKER Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Winter in Fairmont this year is shaping up to be colder with more snow than recent years. Meteorologists at AccuWeather said temperatures are expected to be below average by a degree, and snowfall is expected to be above average. Average yearly[Read More…]
Team from Greater Beckley Christian School wins 30th annual WVU Pumpkin Drop
By WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — While nearly 400 pumpkins flew off the roof of West Virginia University’s Engineering Sciences Building one—from team no. 102A from the Greater Beckley Christian School in Prosperity —not only survived the 11-story drop but landed closest to the target. The winning pumpkin landed[Read More…]
‘American Pickers’ to feature Elkins on History Channel tonight
By BROOKE BINNS The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Locals may recognize the scenery in today’s latest episode of the nationally recognized television series “American Pickers.” Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz from the History Channel’s “American Pickers”series traveled to Elkins earlier this year to rummage through antiques at the home of[Read More…]
News and Sentinel seeks photos for Hometown Spirit section
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Two, four, six, eight. Who do we appreciate? The Parkersburg News and Sentinel will again publish Hometown Spirit, a collection of reader-submitted photographs featuring local cheerleaders, bands, twirlers and competition dance teams from local schools, cheerleading squads, groups and organizations in the[Read More…]