Month: November 2016

Hunters take to the woods for buck firearms season

ELKINS, W.Va. — Around 330,000 hunters will take to the woods of the Mountain  State starting today for buck firearms season, which runs until Dec. 3. The season is open in all counties except Logan, Mingo, McDowell and Wyoming. According to Southwick Associates, hunting contributes $500 million each year to[Read More…]

Let the chips fall where they may

An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register  WHEELING, W.Va. — Take a look at the chart on page five of this section of the paper. Have you ever seen that level of detail on evaluations of public schools in West Virginia? Chances are that you have not. That is one reason why[Read More…]

Public opinion vital to Green Bank Observatory

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch  HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The future of a facility that has been at the heart of dozens of important discoveries about space and also is the economic foundation of a sparsely populated West Virginia region is at risk. If we West Virginians care about the future[Read More…]

WVU women’s soccer team advances to Elite 8

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Michelle Newhouse gave every appearance of being the calmest player on the snow-covered grass pitch, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, on Nov. 20. It mattered not that the WVU junior goalkeeper was stepping into the postseason pressure cooker known as the penalty kick shootout after her top-seeded[Read More…]

WV governor-elect excited about Trump phone chat

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Gov.-elect Jim Justice spoke with President-elect Donald Trump Saturday about the future of West Virginia. “I’ve known the Trump family forever,” Justice said. “Eric (one of Trump’s sons) and I hunt together. It was actually Eric who called me. He said he was calling to congratulate me,[Read More…]

DNR officer says Fairmont has ‘serial deer killer’

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — More than a dozen illegal deer killings have occurred in Fairmont over the last three months, and authorizers are unsure who is doing it and why. The killings started in August. Since then, dead deer have been found all over Fairmont — from the Fairmont Regional Medical[Read More…]

Former WV secretary of state dies of cancer at 76

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Edgar F. “Hike” Heiskell III, a former West Virginia Secretary of State, died Sunday at the age of 76 after a brief battle with cancer. Heiskell served as West Virginia’s Secretary of State from 1973 to 1975. He was the first Republican to hold that office since[Read More…]

Pop-ups set for Bluefield’s Small Business Saturday

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Three “pop-up” businesses will be in the City of Bluefield for Small Business Saturday, the day after the traditional Black Friday. Jim Spencer, the city’s community and economic development director, said the pop-up program is designed to bring in new businesses that may not yet have a[Read More…]

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