BECKLEY, W.Va. — Despite two deadlines having passed, negotiations between West Virginia University and trustees for Mountain State University over the sale of the MSU campus and facilities are actively ongoing, officials with knowledge of the talks said late Tuesday. WVU announced it was in exclusive purchase negotiations with MSU[Read More…]
Month: December 2014
FirstEnergy pumping $250M into improvements
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Over the past five years Marcellus shale has taken the state of West Virginia by storm. The industry has grown faster than most ever expected. FirstEnergy owns 10 different electric companies, including Mon Power, which provides services to customers in North Central West Virginia. Because of the[Read More…]
Look into drug testing order
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Whether you agreed with him or not, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s 2012 mandate that participants in WorkForce West Virginia programs be required to take drug tests was – or appeared to be at the time – an order. So why was it[Read More…]
Marshall raises pay for Holliday, Hamrick
HUNTINGTON – Marshall University football head coach Doc Holliday and athletic director Mike Hamrick are receiving six-year contract extensions with pay raises. Marshall announced Tuesday that it has agreed in principle with Holliday and Hamrick on new contract terms. Details of the contracts will be finalized in the next several[Read More…]
Take precautions with active flu season
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The flu season is upon us. In our region, the outbreaks are fairly widespread, but in line with previous years. But nationally, there have been 15 deaths, and this week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the flu season an[Read More…]
Monongalia authority vacates recycling facility
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Tuesday, Dec. 30, was moving out day for the Monongalia County Solid Waste Authority (SWA). Machinery and equipment in the Morgantown Industrial Park facility’s processing plant was loaded onto trucks while files, office equipment and computers were boxed for transport. The SWA Board of Directors voted unanimously[Read More…]
NASA program will remain at Fairmont site
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — NASA’s Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) program will remain in Fairmont, officials said Tuesday. NASA’s future in North Central West Virginia had been in doubt ever since the agency’s Office of Inspector General issued a July report recommending that the program consider moving to the Goddard Space[Read More…]
Assassination of activist in 1969 changed unions
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The scene was a harrowing end to a violent era. Joseph Yablonski, an outspoken critic of the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America, along with his wife and daughter, lay dead from assassins’ bullets inside their Clarkesville, Pa., home on New Year’s Eve in 1969.[Read More…]
Thousands in W.Va. sign up for health plans
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 12,000 West Virginians selected health insurance plans in the first month of open enrollment for health care plans taking effect on Jan. 1. About 46 percent of those who enrolled in the Health Insurance Marketplace plan for 2015 had previously been enrolled in the program,[Read More…]
Gazette photographers pick favorite 2014 photos
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Each year at this time, we ask the Gazette’s photographers to come up with their two favorite shots from the past 12 months. Today’s photos are from F. Brian Ferguson and Chris Dorst. On Wednesday, we will feature the work of Kenny Kemp and Lawrence Pierce.
