Enrollment period very limited this year Release from WV NaviCare CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Affordable Care Act is still in place and open enrollment begins soon. West Virginians who need to enroll, re-enroll or switch health insurance plans through the Health Insurance Marketplace should note that the annual open enrollment[Read More…]
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Officials: MSDS not accurate at IEI warehouse
Staff reports The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Officials say a material safety data sheet for the Intercontinental Export-Import Plastics warehouse on Camden Avenue, the former Ames shovel plant, is likely out of date and does not give an accurate view of what was stored in the building[Read More…]
Gov. Justice tours site of fire at former Ames plant
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Before officials can investigate the cause of the fire at the former Ames plant in Parkersburg and before people can pick apart what was on the site and determine possible health impacts, the fire has to first be put[Read More…]
Firefighters warned of ‘extreme concerns’ about Parkersburg warehouse
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Two volunteer fire chiefs in Wood County warned nearly a decade ago that they had “extreme concerns” about the potential for a major fire at one of the local warehouses being used to store large amounts of plastics and unknown other products[Read More…]
Class action lawsuit filed in former Ames plant fire
By JEFFREY SAULTON The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Two days after a fire erupted at the former Ames plant, a class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the office of the Wood County Circuit Court clerk. Kathy A. Brown, an attorney with Brown-Houston PLLC in Charleston, filed[Read More…]
Fiber optic ring almost ready for deployment in Charleston area
By JIM ROSS The State Journal SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some areas of Charleston and South Charleston should see higher speeds in their internet and other data-processing services in the next year. Some could see them as soon as next month. Alpha Technologies, a Hurricane-based business technology company, is[Read More…]
W.Va. Child Advocacy Network receives grant for Verizon’s HopeLine
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…]
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…]
