Staff and wire reports The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner has no intention of releasing personal information of West Virginia voters to a White House commission investigating President Donald Trump’s allegations of voter fraud, a spokesman said Monday. Warner’s office received a request from the[Read More…]
Month: July 2017
J.W. and Hazel Ruby West Virginia Welcome Center to welcome 618 Boy Scout troops beginning July 19
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Southern West Virginia is just nine days away from welcoming an estimated 24,750 Boy Scouts and leaders to the 2017 National Jamboree, allowing the new J.W. and Hazel Ruby West Virginia Welcome Center to serve its main purpose. The center, on U.S.[Read More…]
Welcome center moves from Tamarack, eyes Boy Scouts center
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The Visitor Welcome Center of the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau has moved from its longtime location at the front entrance of Tamarack to a mobile center. Bureau Director Doug Maddy verified Monday say they are currently “in discussion” with Boy Scouts of[Read More…]
Putnam residents: Mosquito problem has become ‘unbearable’
By CARLEE LAMMERS Charleston Gazette-Mail ELEANOR, W.Va. — Officials from the Kanawha-Charleston and Putnam County health departments were in Eleanor on Monday, working to help remedy a mosquito issue that some residents say has become “unbearable.” Stan Mills, director of environmental services for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, said residents who live[Read More…]
Annual Bluegrass Festival raises money for Allegheny Highlands Trail
By TIM MACVEAN The Inter-Mountain MONTROS, W.Va. — Award-winning West Virginia bluegrass musicians will converge on the area later this month to help raise money for the Allegheny Highlands Trail. Johnny Cochran’s Bluegrass Band, Bobby Maynard and Breakdown, and Johnny Staats and the Delivery Boys will all take the stage on[Read More…]
Jamboree in the Hills kicks off Thursday
Staff reports The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register MORRISTOWN, Ohio — It’s hard to believe that a small country music festival held in 1977 led to Belmont County becoming a destination for thousands of country fans, but year after year they keep coming back to the area for Jamboree in the[Read More…]
EDITORIAL: Foster care system still in need of help
By JOHN MILLER The Exponent Telegram editorial For the past year, the state’s foster care system has received ample attention from the news media, helping to spread the word that more foster families are needed. By now we all know that the opioid epidemic is at the root of much[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, July 11
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. TRUMP JR. ADMITS HE WANTED INFO ON CLINTON FROM KREMLIN-LINKED LAWYER The president’s eldest son[Read More…]
Opioid epidemic contributes to number of WV’s ‘grandfamilies’
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Deena and Keith Ellison thought they’d be finished raising children by now. Deena’s kids were under 7, and Keith’s were teenagers when the couple got together in the early 1990s. Now, Deena, 54, and Keith, 63, find themselves parenting again — this[Read More…]
Sanders holds rally in Morgantown to urge Capito to vote against GOP health bill
By CARTER WALKER Times West Virginia MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., visited Morgantown on Sunday to rally West Virginia residents to oppose the Republican health care bill. Sanders held the rally in hopes of persuading his colleague, West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, to be a “no”[Read More…]
