Fee to Increase a Bit on Cell Phone Bills The Inter-Mountain It was a headline-grabber indeed for those who chose to present a change by the West Virginia Public Service Commission as meaning cell phone BILLS increasing 10% in the state. But the reality is significantly less frightening. Beginning July[Read More…]
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Push for flood proofing continues in McDowell
By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph welch — While nearly four months has passed since the Feb. 15 flooding disaster, recovery efforts are still ongoing in McDowell County. This includes infrastructure repair. Ironically, a flood wall located on Virginia Avenue in Welch was among those structures damaged by the winter storm.[Read More…]
Commerce Department announces updated guidance on BEAD program
Initiative slated to provide up to $1.2 billion to West Virginia By Charles Young, WV News WASHINGTON (WV News) — The U.S. Department of Commerce released updated guidance Friday on the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. The Biden-era broadband expansion initiative was paused earlier this year, putting the[Read More…]
Unknown number of SNAP recipients’ benefits stolen from multiple WV counties
By Sierra Marling, Coal Valley News DANVILLE, W.Va. — When Mina Bailey went to check her food stamps balance on the first of April, as she always does, she found her benefits — a little over $400 — had been stolen. It turns out, Bailey, 75, of Raleigh County, was[Read More…]
77 Municipal Elections scheduled to take place Tuesday, June 10th
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – According to the WV Secretary of State’s Office, 104 municipal elections are scheduled to take place in 2025. Of those, 77 elections will take place Tuesday, June 10. Secretary of State Kris Warner announced that the overwhelming majority of June 10 elections, hosted by cities and towns throughout West Virginia, feature contested races—meaning candidates for mayor, council,[Read More…]
WVU orthodontists testing innovative technology for making ‘shape memory’ dental aligners
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is one of three U.S. universities testing a new technology that incorporates “shape memory” material for clear plastic dental aligners, an alternative to traditional metal braces. “To make these materials that actually have memory is a big breakthrough,” said Dr. Peter Ngan, Branson-Maddrell Endowed[Read More…]
Memories of D-Day participants preserved by Brooke museum
By Warren Scott, The Weirton Daily Times WELLSBURG — Eighty-one years ago today, about 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and about 100,000 tons of military equipment descended on the beaches of Normandy, the first step by Allied troops in World War II to liberate France from Nazi invaders. One[Read More…]
Editorial: Economic news gets worse for southern WV coalfields
The Herald-Dispatch It’s been a tough spring job-wise in the southern West Virginia coalfields. This week, it got worse. On Tuesday, June 3, Itmann Mining Co., a subsidiary of Core Natural Resources, filed a WARN notice with Workforce WV that it plans to idle all or part of its Itmann[Read More…]
Oil and gas teacher workshop aims to end West Virginia ‘brain drain’
By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN — East Fairmont Middle School teacher Michael Leshko squats down at eye level with a contraption that contains boiling green mouthwash. The mouthwash boils off some gases, which travel down a coil encased in glass. Leshko holds a bag of water over the[Read More…]
WVU Medicine extends commitment further in Mercer County with $25M emergency and behavior health facility
By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – Officials broke ground Thursday for a new $25 million health care campus that will serve behavioral health and emergency medical needs across a 10-county region encompassing parts of West Virginia and Virginia. Supporters gathered outside the Behavioral Health Pavilion of the Virginias[Read More…]
