By MARLA HAISLIP The State Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Located on Grapevine Road adjacent to a well-established recycling center on 12 acres is a 55,000 square-foot building under construction that is designed to turn household and municipal solid waste into solid fuel. The cost of the project by Entsorga West[Read More…]
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EPA expects 271 people to speak on Clean Power Plan repeal
Staff reports The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Environmental Protection Agency expects at least 271 people to offer comments when it visits Charleston Tuesday and Wednesday regarding the Clean Power Plan. That’s how many people have been given speaking slots, according to the preliminary speaker list released Nov. 22.[Read More…]
UN expert to visit Charleston, study effects of effort to end poverty
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A United Nations expert on poverty and human rights will visit Charleston next month during a fact-finding trip to the United States. Professor Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will travel to the United States during the first[Read More…]
WV Supreme Court: Former police lab director’s free speech not violated
By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Supreme Court last week affirmed a 2016 ruling that the former director of the West Virginia State Police forensic laboratory was not acting as a private citizen when she talked to legislators about issues at the lab in 2014.[Read More…]
Marshall University social work professor focused on positive change
By MEGAN ARCHER The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — He looks up from his iPad and gives a warm smile. Philip Carter, a social work professor at Marshall University, has asked to meet at Rocco’s Little Italy where he often goes for a quick meal. Standing at 6 feet 6 inches tall[Read More…]
Christmas tours now available at Pricketts Fort
By KAITLYN NEFF Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Pricketts Fort invites the community to witness how their Appalachian ancestors celebrated Christmas during the historical and colonial time period with a Christmas tour. It wasn’t until the end of the 19th century when Christmas how most know it today was[Read More…]
Sleighful of holiday musical events planned in Wheeling area
By LINDA COMINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Area residents have plenty of opportunities to get in the mood for the holiday season with a variety of musical events planned throughout the region. Offering a festive celebration of choral music, the West Liberty University choirs will present[Read More…]
Wheeling man finds piece of railroad history
By HEATHER ZIEGLER The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — It has been years since the rumble of trains sounded through Wheeling’s landscape, chugging alongside the rolling Ohio River. Long gone are the rails that many rode to and from far-away destinations or walked along in leaner times. The coal trains[Read More…]
Bridge between Ironton, Russell wins award
By DAVID E. MALLOY The Herald-Dispatch IRONTON, Ohio — The Oakley Clark Collins Bridge over the Ohio River connecting Ironton and Russell, Kentucky, has won an award a 2017 Bridge Award of Excellence in the category of long span and cable-stayed bridges, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The[Read More…]
‘Glee’ actress changed with domestic battery in Kanawha County
Staff report Charleston Gazette-Mail CHESAPEAKE, W.Va. — Actress Naya Rivera has been charged with domestic battery after an incident late Saturday in Kanawha County, police say. In a news release, the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said deputies arrested Rivera after her husband, actor Ryan Dorsey, said she struck him in the[Read More…]
