By CHRISTOPHER DOWELLNCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Child Advocacy Network, a nonprofit agency serving West Virginia families whose lives have been touched by domestic violence, has received a $15,000 grant from Verizon’s HopeLine program to expand its work throughout West Virginia. The HopeLine program collects no longer[Read More…]
Month: October 2017
Bridgeport meat processor part of DNR Hunters Helping the Hungry Program
By JONATHAN WEAVER NCWV Media BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Young and Stout Meat Processors in Bridgeport is the sole Harrison County processor part of the Department of Natural Resources Hunters Helping the Hungry program. Fourth-generation Manager Stephen Stout said the family business, based in Bridgeport since 1942, has been involved in[Read More…]
Jenkins proposes bill to create federal drug task force
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., has proposed a bill to create a multi-department federal task force to fight the fentanyl and heroin epidemic. The bill, co-authored with Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., was introduced in the House of Representatives Monday. Titled the “Fentanyl[Read More…]
Broadcast to showcase Huntington’s drug stories, solutions
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Rarely has the national media’s arrival in Huntington signaled that the once-proclaimed “overdose capital of America” was about to be cast in a positive light. But when Discovery Education goes live from Pullman Square on Wednesday, Oct. 25, with thousands of school-age children[Read More…]
Goats, sheep taking care of grass at NASA site
By KAITLYN NEFF Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — At the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) facility in Fairmont’s Technology Center, there are not just scientists, educational professionals and researchers working hard, but goats and sheep too. NASA has recently started utilizing livestock to mow the grass on[Read More…]
Friends of the Cheat gives tour, deems river the ‘healthiest it’s been in 50 years’
By CONOR GRIFFITH The State Journal CHEAT LAKE, W.Va. —The nonprofit organization Friends of the Cheat concluded a tour throughout Monongalia and Preston counties Tuesday evening, during which time the group delivered a report on the state of the Cheat River watershed. Since 1994, FOC has partnered with private landowners,[Read More…]
In the spirit of the season: TV show explores local ATV trails, old Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph LAKE SHAWNEE, W.Va. — Producers of a television show which explores ATV trails across North America visited Mercer County this week to see more of the Hatfield-McCoy Trail and an abandoned amusement park with a haunted reputation. Dirt Trax has shows featuring ATV[Read More…]
W.Va. Hospital Association elected new officers, trustees
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Hospital Association (WVHA), representing 63 acute care and specialty hospitals and health systems in West Virginia, recently elected new officers and appointed trustees for 2017-2018. Officers include: Chair: Jeff Lilley, Chief Executive Officer, Princeton Community Hospital, Princeton; Chair-Elect: Avah Stalnaker, Chief Executive Officer, Stonewall Jackson[Read More…]
Justice declares emergency, Wood County Schools closed Tuesday
Staff reports The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency in Wood County as a result of the former Ames plant fire, and Wood County Schools will be closed a second day because of air quality concerns. Justice’s declaration[Read More…]
Air quality questions persist as fire burns at former Ames plant
By EVAN BEVINS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The potential health effects of the towering plume of smoke billowing up from the blaze at the former Ames plant and spreading across the area have been a source of concern for residents since the fire started early Saturday[Read More…]
