FAIRMONT, W.Va. — The 35th annual West Virginia Three Rivers Festival opened in style with a grand parade through Fairmont Thursday night, ending in Palatine Park where the efforts of the Marion County Commission to revitalize the park and the riverfront were on display for the crowds that gathered. But[Read More…]
Month: May 2014
Rainelle a favorite spot along ‘Run For the Wall’
RAINELLE, W.Va. — “Welcome home!” That was the greeting extended by L.Z. Rainelle organizer Monica Venable to hundreds of veterans who gathered, along with their families and friends, on the dusty ballfield at Rainelle Elementary School Thursday afternoon. Honoring what has long been a pre-Memorial Day holiday tradition, motorcycle-riding veterans[Read More…]
Restored funding a relief for W.Va. social services
BECKLEY, W.Va. — It’s been a week of lows and highs for Patricia Bailey. The director of the Women’s Resource Center was near the end of her rope and her budget Tuesday when she spoke at a vigil in Charleston asking Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to add restoring funding for[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Friday, May 23
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Friday, May 23, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers. 1. THAILAND TO JUNTA: PLEASE CHANGE YOUR SOUNDTRACK Thai[Read More…]
Lawmakers restore social services funding
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislators restored $1.06 million in funding cuts to several West Virginia family resources and social services programs Wednesday, as they wrapped up a three-day special session. As the House of Delegates was considering a bill (SB2003) to put money into accounts that previously had received video lottery[Read More…]
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A message from the ‘Past President’s Pen’
To the publishers and editors of the West Virginia Press Association: Dear Friends, Two aspects of our professionalism that may be lacking are our need to be more sociable and be more open to networking outside of convention time. For example, in the mid-1980s when Warren Buzzard, publisher of[Read More…]
Punish VA officials involved in scandal
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Men and women in the military come to understand quickly that mistakes or shirking one’s duty can have truly terrible consequences. People die. Others are maimed in body and mind, coming home in desperate need of help. It is different in[Read More…]
Bill Stewart sends Pat White ‘an angel’
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — You could not avoid noticing the coincidence, and Pat White did not as this posting on Facebook shows. “This day two years ago we all gained an angel, today he sent us one back! RIP Bill Stewart 5/21/12 Welcome Daphne Ruth White 5/21/14” If ever there was[Read More…]
‘The Joan’ at Marshall gets a makeover
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University officials might want to ask Astro-Turf to become a Thundering Herd sponsor. As much business as the university is bringing to the synthetic grass company, it’s almost as though they are already a major part of the Big Green. Earlier this week, work to lay[Read More…]
