BENWOOD, W.Va. — The former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel facility in Benwood soon will be home to a company doing business with the natural gas industry. JLE Industries, based in Dunbar, Pa., has invested over $6 million to establish a state-of-the-art facility at the site to inspect and place threading on pipe[Read More…]
Month: December 2015
Ban guns? As we did with drugs?
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — I’m told it’s not at all difficult to buy drugs such as heroin, methamphetamines and others. Matter of fact, I suspect I could do so without any guidance or help. But wait a moment. Those substances are[Read More…]
Fairmont dedicates third WV Gold Star monument
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Families with loved ones who died overseas will be remembered in Fairmont. The dedication for the Gold Star Families Memorial Monument was held on Saturday at the Hershel Woody Williams Armed Forces Reserve Center. Gold star families are families who have lost a loved one serving in[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Monday, Dec. 7
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. WHAT OBAMA OFFERS IN HIGH-PROFILE TERROR SPEECH The president’s rare prime time address[Read More…]
AP’s 2016 Legislative Lookahead set for Jan. 8
Registration deadline is Jan. 4 SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.VA. — With an election on the calendar and budget, education and technology issues expected to arise during the West Virginia legislative session, 2016 promises to be an interesting news year. The state’s journalists will not want to miss the The West Virginia Legislative Lookahead[Read More…]
Citizens for Coal issue statement on Blankenship verdict
LOGAN, W.Va. – Roger Horton, president of United Citizens for Coal, has issued the following statement regarding today’s verdict in the trial of former Massey CEO Don Blankenship: Today is a day for justice, a justice long overdue. For many, today was about that justice being meted out to a single[Read More…]
Ex-lawmaker Wooton to run for WV high court
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Beckley attorney Bill Wooton announced Thursday he will make a bid for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 2016. “Now is the time,” Wooton, a former state senator and delegate, said. He said past plans to run for a seat on the state’s highest court[Read More…]
Osteopathic school gets record gift from BrickStreet
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Just two years after contributing $600,000 in scholarship funds to the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, The BrickStreet Foundation has upped the ante, endowing scholarships to the tune of an additional $900,000, the largest single gift in WVSOM’s 43-year history. The announcement of the foundation’s substantial[Read More…]
Demand for newspapers will continue
A column for The Register-Herald by former reporter and freelancer John Blankenship BECKLEY, W.Va. — Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, stated that we can never step into the same river twice. If we consider time as a river, and the changing generations, those who enter and define that river, it is obvious[Read More…]
WVU rents ice rink to relieve finals week stress
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Thursday night, Fun Before Finals week brought another opportunity for West Virginia University students to chill before finals start next week. The University rented a portable ice rink for the Mountainlair plaza. Once again, the goal was to provide students with an easy, inexpensive way to have[Read More…]