To the Editor: I am pleased and saddened to announce that United for Coal is now Citizens for Coal. As president of Citizens for Coal for the past six years, I have watched the hard work of Allen Gibson, Allen Black and the rest of the people who have put so much work[Read More…]
Month: August 2014
United for Coal is now part of Citizens for Coal
LOGAN, W.Va. — United for Coal is now part of Citizens for Coal. The two organizations announced Aug. 16 that United for Coal will be rolled into Citizens of Coal. UFC president Allen Gibson is stepping down with CFC President Roger Horton maintaining the leadership role of CFC. For more information, contact[Read More…]
Legislature to look at craft beer breweries
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia legislators will look at whether regulations meant to govern large beer distributors unfairly burden the state’s small but growing craft beer industry. Seven breweries are registered with the West Virginia Department of Commerce and featured as West Virginia craft brewers. Brewers say there are about[Read More…]
Parkersburg kids turn out for time-honored derby
PARKERSBURG — It was all downhill Sunday for the racers in the annual Soapbox Derby at the Parkersburg Homecoming Festival. Around 28 local Cub Scouts and others came out to Market Street early Sunday afternoon to race in about a dozen cars constructed by the youth. Kids took turns riding[Read More…]
Piedmont officials seek state demolition help
PIEDMONT, W.Va. — The Piedmont governing officials are hopeful a hand-delivered letter to West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will produce action in the removal of the almost entire block of structures destroyed by fire in early January. The subject of the destroyed buildings was an agenda item at the[Read More…]
Nation eyes West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race
WHEELING, W.Va. — When Mitt Romney visits West Virginia on Tuesday to campaign for GOP Senate hopeful Shelley Moore Capito, he will become the latest in a flurry of nationally known politicians to visit the state to back their respective parties’ candidates for Congress this year. And some believe there’s[Read More…]
Soaring salt prices squeeze W.Va. budgets
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In the winter months of the 2013-14 fiscal year, the Huntington Street Department was called out 47 times to clear snow. That’s more than the past five years combined, said Assistant Public Works Director Jim Insco. The scenario was the same across much of the country as[Read More…]
The young, the old attend WVU Football 101
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Olivia DeWeese stepped into the Football 101 program Sunday, Aug. 17, with a perspective different than most of the other women attending — she’s only 10. She plays quarterback and defensive back in the St. Marys Blue Devils youth system. Participants in the educational program had the[Read More…]
Party school label not only high ranking for WVU
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The first day of class at West Virginia University is today, and school officials are hoping students are excited about other rankings outside of its continuous party school reputation. Earlier this month, The Princeton Review ranked WVU the No. 4 party school in the country, perpetuating the[Read More…]
Is the increase in concealed carry permits a problem?
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The number of West Virginia citizens obtaining concealed weapons permits has quadrupled in the past five years, according to data provided by the West Virginia State Police. In 2009, county sheriff’s departments issued 11,160 concealed carry gun permits. In 2013,[Read More…]