By Jim RossFor HDMedia Developers of the proposed data center along W.Va. 62 north of Point Pleasant, Mason County, have submitted their application for a construction permit to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. The application was submitted April 20 by Monarch Cloud Campus LLC, which is owned by[Read More…]

By Amber PhippsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Marshall University announced it received a gift which granted access to fiber-optic cable worth $3.8 million during the annual scholarship Thursday. The dinner was held at the Grand Pointe Conference and Reception Center in Vienna and featured hundreds of current and former[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Bluefield City Manager Cecil Marson is asking area residents to enjoy all of the assets at city park, but is also cautioning against acts of vandalism. While the city is gearing up for a busy spring and summer season at Lotito Park,[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia While the investigation remains ongoing into the death of John Curtis Lucas, the 45-year-old Elkview man who was dragged by an ambulance for nearly 2 miles and later died, family attorney Scott Summers said they now know what happened. In a lengthy Facebook message posted to the Summers[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — Kindergarteners at White Hall Elementary raised $1,600 this week for a nonprofit that provides autism support. They did it by selling lemonade. “It’s amazing,” Whitney Price, founder of Unpuzzled Parents Connect, said. “Even if they wouldn’t have raised any money for us,[Read More…]

By Brett DunlapFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg – People from around the community gathered Wednesday in downtown Parkersburg to let the victims of sexual assault know that there are many out there who believe them and support them. Around 40 people gathered at Bicentennial Park to commemorate Denim[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and his family are doubling down in their fight to preserve their control of the historic Greenbrier Resort and web of related properties. Representing the Justice family, Charleston-based attorney Steven Ruby on Wednesday filed an amended complaint claiming new allegations against a[Read More…]

By Laura BilsonFor HDMedia Wearing daisy-rimmed sunglasses and with her salt-and-pepper hair in an updo, the East End Resource Center’s Gardening Program Manager Carolyn Sue Young hacked at a root with a shovel in a square hole, three feet wide and two feet deep.  She and several volunteers planted the[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor The Bluefield Daily Telegraph Princeton — Vouchers for low-cost spay-neuter procedures will be distributed to the public Saturday in an effort to help control the homeless animal population in Mercer County. During a meeting of the Mercer County Commission Tuesday evening, commission president Bill Archer said the[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia “[The Legislature made a] $125 million investment … this game changer allows us to move immediately on … potholes, and spring paving — to fix the damage left behind by a very tough winter.” That’s what West Virginia Transportation Secretary Todd Rumbaugh told those gathered at[Read More…]