PRESS RELEASE: CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 15, 2016) – More than 20 female business leaders will convene as presenters at the 2016 Women & Technology Conference to share insights and strategies on how women and technology can help revitalize West Virginia’s economy while supporting women in technology fields. Arria Hines, CEO[Read More…]
Month: September 2016
Rural King to bring store, 70-80 jobs to Bluefield
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Rural King, a national farm and home store chain, will be opening a new location in Bluefield creating approximately 70 to 80 jobs. According to Rural King Director of Marketing David Bailey, the new store is scheduled to open in late spring 2017. “We are a farm and home[Read More…]
Pot eradication blitz mounted in three WV counties
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A marijuana eradication effort in southern West Virginia has resulted in the confiscation of millions of dollars worth of illegal plants in three counties, West Virginia State Police officials said Thursday. The eradication efforts began Monday and wrapped up Wednesday evening. “We got several thousand plants in Mercer,[Read More…]
Work not begun at cutoff Elkview shopping center
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Months after the June 23 floods, the Crossings Mall in Elkview remains empty, with no sign of construction to replace the culvert that was swept away by raging floodwater. A hotel, restaurants, gas stations, stores and other businesses in the shopping center, including Kmart and Kroger, still[Read More…]
Charleston journalists recognized for flood work
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two Charleston Gazette-Mail employees were recognized for their work at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association news industry summit this week in Sarasota, Florida. Gazette-Mail photographer Christian Tyler Randolph was awarded third place in the readers’ choice feature photography competition for his photo of Rob Morissin, looking at the[Read More…]
Rebuilt Kanawha schools expected to cost $68M
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County school board took a step Thursday night to allow its officials to ask the state School Building Authority to provide part of the $68 million that the planned new Herbert Hoover High and Clendenin Elementary schools are projected to cost. Charles Wilson, Kanawha County Schools’[Read More…]
Pledge to grow economy for miners, everyone else
A Gazette editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — We like Jim Justice, but an appeal he sent out Tuesday asking other candidates and leaders to sign a “2016 Commitment to Coal and West Virginia Miners” is not leadership. It’s more of the same pandering that has gotten West Virginia[Read More…]
Huntington’s incubator school celebrates new digs
HUNTINGTON – For fifth-graders at Explorer Academy, one of their favorite things about their new school is its size. “We have so much more space now than we did before,” Makenzie Sawyers said. Sawyers and several other fifth-grade student ambassadors at Explorer Academy had the chance to show off their[Read More…]
Confidence in elections key to our democracy
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — How much confidence do Americans have in the accuracy of election returns? Some, but not enough. The “hanging chads” of the very close 2000 presidential race helped voters understand the importance of the details in both voting and counting ballots. But the rise[Read More…]
Elkins won’t publish delinquent business names
ELKINS, W.Va. — City Council Thursday tabled an ordinance that would allow officials to publish the names of businesses that are delinquent in paying business and occupation taxes. The ordinance was up for a second and final reading during the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall. During the meeting, two[Read More…]