Gov. Tomblin, Sen. Manchin, community college system, employers join in dedicating Innovative North Central Advanced Technology Center FAIRMONT, W.Va. (October 31, 2016) – The second of two state-of-the-art Advanced Technology Centers (ATC) in the state was dedicated today, when Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Senator Joe[Read More…]
Month: October 2016
Nature puts on a glorious display in Monroe County
Click here for a slide show by The Register-Herald’s Rick Barbero.
Highmark WV program to reduce opioid abuse
News Release from Highmark WV: PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (Oct. 31, 2016) – Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield West Virginia announced today that it has joined forces with axialHealthcare, a national leader in the appropriate use of opioids for pain management. Together they will help West Virginia physicians better understand their patients’[Read More…]
Outside groups spend more than $15M on WV races
BECKLEY, W.Va. — With nine days until the election, outside special interest groups spent more than $15 million trying to influence voters’ decision on who can best lead West Virginia, three times the amount spent four years ago. That amount nearly rivals what candidates for the executive, legislative and judicial offices[Read More…]
President of strapped Boone school board resigns
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The president of the Boone County Board of Education abruptly resigned Friday afternoon amid the district’s struggles to slash millions of dollars from its already bare bones budget, the second leader to do so within five months. Mark Sumpter, 50, signed his resignation letter Friday in the[Read More…]
Endorsement: Justice offers the excitement of possibilities
An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Given the economic state of our state, the profusion of vexing issues left unattended if not ignored and the tangled web that our politics have become at the state capitol, we think Charleston needs a dramatic change in leadership, a mover and[Read More…]
Marion County spooky tale told for generations
(Editor’s Note: This story appears in “Myths of the Mountains: The Folktales, the Ghost Stories and the Urban Legends from the Hills of West Virginia,” which is on sale now at the Times West Virginian. Stop by our office or call 304-367-2500 to order your copy today.) COFFIN HOLLOW, W.Va.[Read More…]
Endorsement: McKinley earns right to retain seat
An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — David McKinley, a Republican who represents West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District in Washington, D.C., won for the first time in the 2010 campaign, which brought in a wave of conservative representatives. McKinley, in his sixth year, has placed service over[Read More…]
Parkersburg hospital shows off $20 million ER
PARKERSBURG — The public got a chance to take a tour Sunday of the new emergency department at the WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center. The medical center held an open house to allow people the chance to come in and see how the new emergency department was laid out[Read More…]
Author scours WV for creepy encounters
WHEELING, W.Va. — Just in time for Halloween, a new book about the ghosts, aliens and monsters that haunt West Virginia has come out, written and photographed by Somerset, Pa., native Tony Urban. In “West Virginia’s Dark Tourism” (Schiffer Publishing, 2016), Urban recounts 61 tales of terror and intrigue, accompanied[Read More…]
