By Gwen SourFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Vienna — The Friends of Vienna’s Freedom Festival returned for its fifth year, bringing families to Spencer’s Landing for entertainment, carnival rides, animal shows, wrestling and other activities. Friends of Vienna President Jack Mathers said the festival was inspired in part by[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — Experts are on the look out for a menacing creature this year — the tick. “We don’t actually count tick populations, so it’s hard to give you any empirical data on that, but from what I’m reading, it seems to be increasing[Read More…]

By Ben ConleyFor The Dominion Post Morgantown – Recent history would tell us the combination of tents, inclement weather and Kendrick Family Ballpark is a recipe for impromptu aeronautics. Jaime Williams – Just Jaime to WVAQ listeners – is hopeful the fur is not flying at the ballpark this weekend[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia Hundreds of permit exceedances and unpermitted discharges of toxic water contaminants. A multigenerational legacy of industrial water pollution near and into the Ohio River, a source of drinking water for some 5 million people — and people experiencing increased rates of cancer, thyroid disease and other health[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez For Times West Virginian Clarksburg — To see her husband, Lauren Cristal has to travel four hours to Moshannon Valley where he’s held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.  That reality is disconcerting for Cristal’s sister, Kristina Smith.  “It’s wrong for these men who are living in[Read More…]

By Joselyn KingFor The Intelligencer Wheeling – Wheeling Heritage now has nearly $50,000 to place a pocket park on Market Plaza. Wheeling Heritage – a group charged with economic revitalization, historic preservation, and cultural development in Wheeling, was one of 26 organizations nationwide selected in the final round of T-Mobile’s[Read More…]

By Laura BilsonFor HDMedia The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, arrived in St. Albans at noon on Thursday. Honoring the original monument, located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1982, this version has traveled the country since 1984. Like the original, The Moving Wall features the[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Free lemonade will be served next week in Nature’s Air-Conditioned City just in time for an approaching heat wave. Temperatures next week are expected to climb close to 90 degrees for several days, including on Thursday, July 2. That’s when free lemonade[Read More…]

By Amanda Larch HinchmanFor HDMedia Brands like Carhartt, Hot Wheels and KitchenAid can all be found alongside grocery staples at the new Kroger Marketplace in South Charleston, which opened to the public Wednesday morning. Dozens of people waited in line to shop at the 122,000-square-foot facility, including South Charleston resident[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – The office of Gov. Patrick Morrisey expressed disappointment in a federal ruling pausing West Virginia’s waiver prohibiting the use of welfare benefits for sugary drinks and sodas. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a memorandum[Read More…]