CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education voted 8-1 Wednesday to approve Fayette County’s new two-high school facilities plan despite three board members finding their predicament less than desirable. “You’ve left us with no choice but to make this decision. We are going to make it today. If[Read More…]
Month: September 2016
West Virginia shows strong growth in STEM fields
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia. A state filled with coal miners, manual laborers, workers whose jobs did not require much post-secondary education, right? Wrong, according to a new study that shows the mountain state has a higher percentage of workers in Science, Technology,[Read More…]
Martinsburg indoor mall to close, anchors to remain
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Foxcroft Towne Center, formerly the Martinsburg Mall, will be closing, effective Nov. 1. According to a press release from mall management, parent company Martinsburg Development Partners LLC will be closing the interior portion of the mall, leaving only anchor stores Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney and Bon Ton open.[Read More…]
Hopes high for Pendleton County drive-in reopening
FRANKLIN, W.Va. — The closed Warner Drive-In theater, fondly remembered as a provider of summer weekend entertainment, combining privacy and family fun, will reopen Sept. 9 with the Disney movie “Finding Dory,” thanks to the fundraising efforts of concerned citizens refusing to lose an American icon. Gates open at 6[Read More…]
UMW organizes DC march in push to save benefits
WHEELING, W.Va. — More than 5,000 miners and family members will march in Washington, D.C. today in an effort to prevent thousands of United Mine Workers of America members from losing their pensions and health care. On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., along with Rep.[Read More…]
Gator follows country roads to Wheeling’s Good Zoo
WHEELING, W.Va. — An exotic invader of the Tygart Valley River now lounges at Oglebay Park’s Good Zoo in a warmed pool under a 30-day quarantine. But before getting its posh accommodations in the holding area at the zoo, the 3.5-foot juvenile American alligator was likely someone’s pet, abandoned at[Read More…]
Dire warnings were unfounded
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — If you are among those still condemning West Virginia legislators who repealed the antiquated prevailing wage law earlier this year, the news this week was not good. Critics of the action insisted it would cost the jobs of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of[Read More…]
Ex-Charleston baseball player won’t be retried
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After hearing Wednesday that the nearly 30-year-old charges against him would be dismissed, Jimmie Gardner walked out of the courtroom and called his mother. “Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus,” Gardner’s mother, Gladys, could be heard saying through the cellphone. The former Charleston Wheelers baseball player — who spent 27[Read More…]
Charleston removes benches used by homeless
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston city workers removed more than half a dozen benches from the Lee Street Triangle Wednesday after receiving “numerous” complaints about some of the homeless people who use them. Jerry Hill, director of the Public Grounds office and former Charleston police officer of 27 years, confirmed that Mayor[Read More…]
Dominion locks out union employees in WV
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dominion Hope and Dominion Transmission have locked out union workers from the company’s facilities in six states, including West Virginia. The company and members of the Local 69 Utility Workers Union of America and United Gas Workers have been operating without a labor contract since the beginning of April. Dominion officials in West Virginia[Read More…]