The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register editorial One cannot blame officials in small towns for scrimping on the accounting process. Clerks cannot patrol village streets, after all. Accountants do not pave pothole-ridden roads. Every dime spent on them is money that cannot be used for purposes such as keeping the street[Read More…]
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10 things to know: Tuesday, May 30
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. FORMER PANAMA DICTATOR MANUEL NORIEGA DIES AT 83 The onetime U.S. ally, ousted as Panama’s[Read More…]
Photo exhibit shares wartime memories of Mel Grubb
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — When people look at the World II photo of a young man holding a monkey, the man who took it likes to say, “I’m the one on the right.” The Those Who Served War Museum in Princeton is honoring Memorial Day[Read More…]
Veterans attend Memorial Day Cookout at Parkersburg’s City Park
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Many area veterans came out to a special picnic Sunday in Parkersburg to spend time with other veterans remembering their service and those with whom they served. Around 200 people attended the ninth annual Memorial Day Cookout to honor[Read More…]
Hancock County bridge named for local Marine in Weirton
By SUMMER WALLACE-MINGER The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WEIRTON, W.Va. — Marine Cpl. Mark Cool was 19 when he was injured in the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam on Feb. 27, 1968, and died three days later in Okinawa, Japan. Almost 40 years later, the Colliers Way Bridge, near[Read More…]
Muslim civil rights organization to open WV affiliate
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization plans to open a satellite office in West Virginia. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is currently seeking an executive director for a West Virginia office. CAIR works to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans[Read More…]
Appalachian Power adapts battery to help regional power grid
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An electric substation under construction in eastern Cabell County means a battery installation will find its third purpose in life. Instead of preventing power fluctuations in a limited area or providing backup power when a transmission line goes down, the 2-megawatt[Read More…]
Editorial: States should do more to evaluate tax breaks
The Herald-Dispatch editorial Incentives and tax breaks play an important part in most state and local governments’ efforts to attract business. This region recently saw that at work with the announcement last month that Braidy Industries plans to build an aluminum mill in the South Shore, Kentucky, area about 15[Read More…]
Editorial: Loose lips birth deadly results
The Journal editorial Keeping secrets can be just as important as uncovering them for intelligence agencies. An enemy’s knowledge of what one knows can be dangerous. The anger of British officials about leaks regarding their investigation of the Manchester concert hall bombing is understandable, then. Americans ought to be just[Read More…]
Every picture tells a story. Register-Herald creating keepsake photo book, calls for submissions
By MICHELLE JAMES The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Photographs. They’ve been handed down generation after generation. Each one tells a story of years gone by. Of a time simpler time. Of a harder time. Of our history. The hills, rivers, valleys, coalfields and railroads of southern West Virginia are ripe[Read More…]
