By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Sawyer, a 10-month-old Great Pyrenees, seemed to quickly become friends with Apollo, a 5-month-old boxer, when the two met Thursday at the Fitzsimmons Family Dog Park: A PetSafe Park. “They just met a few minutes ago,” said Sawyer’s owner,[Read More…]
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Training prepares volunteers for Read Aloud program
By JOSEPHINE MENDEZ The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — For roughly 17 years, Betty Dennison’s leadership development studies class at Mountwest Community & Technical College has partnered with Read Aloud West Virginia to serve a local elementary school. But before her students are allowed to enter a classroom, they must complete a[Read More…]
Clowns and zombies to take over Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Nights of terror and mayhem featuring clowns and zombies will take over the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine beginning this weekend at the Haunted Coal Mine event to benefit Theatre West Virginia. The event will play out a scenario to see if clowns and zombies[Read More…]
WVU celebrates Pearl Buck Day on Wed., Oct. 25
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University and the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Inc. are co-sponsoring a Pearl Buck Day on Wed., Oct. 25 at the University’s Mountainlair Student Center. For WVU, this day of festivities helps to not only honor the 125th anniversary of the great author’s birth in[Read More…]
10 things to know: Friday, October 13
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Friday, October 13, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. TRUMP MOVES TO WEAKEN ‘OBAMACARE’ The president plans to halt payments to insurers under the[Read More…]
Manna Meal’s 5th Annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser set for Friday
Pay-at-the-door event held at 1105 Quarrier St. in downtown Charleston CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Manna Meal, Charleston’s seven-day a week soup kitchen, is hosting its 5th Annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 13, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church located at 1105 Quarrier St. in downtown Charleston. The fundraising event is[Read More…]
Frontier won’t return $4.7M in broadband funds to WV
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Frontier Communications won’t give back any of the $4.7 million in stimulus funds that the federal government says the state overpaid Frontier as part of a statewide project that aimed to expand high-speed internet, the company told state officials this week. A[Read More…]
Federal grants announced for WV projects to help coalfield communities
By MAX GARLAND Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Eight West Virginia projects will receive a total of about $8.2 million in funding from the federal Economic Development Administration as part of a new initiative to support economic development in areas hit by the coal industry’s decline, the U.S. Department of[Read More…]
Armstrong Flooring to expand; announcement part of federal economic grants
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Inter-Mountain BEVERLY — An expansion project to create a distribution center at Armstrong Flooring’s manufacturing plant in Beverly could bring up to 50 new jobs, officials announced Wednesday. The expansion will add 85,000 square feet to the local facility, which is the largest pre-finished hardwood flooring[Read More…]
Bluefield’s Commercialization Station receives federal boost
By CHARLIE BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The future of Bluefield’s Commercialization Station received a boost Wednesday with the announcement of a $750,000 federal grant to help create jobs and programs at the facility. The funding is from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and will go to[Read More…]
