By TRISH RUDDER The Morgan Messenger BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — The Itty Bitty Global Gift Shop in Berkeley Springs is one of three fair trade shops in West Virginia. Shop owner Mary Joan Ferrara Marsland, the U.S. director for UPAVIM Crafts from Guatemala, opened the shop in April 2016, and[Read More…]
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Daily Mail editorial: #GivingTuesday a fun and easy way to help
Daily Mail editorial page Charleston Gazette-Mail You gorged yourself and enjoyed time with family on Thanksgiving Day. You got up early, battled the crowds and survived Black Friday. You hit the downtowns and shopped small to support locally owned businesses on Small Business Saturday. You stayed at your keyboard and[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, November 28
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. TRUMP TAKES ON CONTROVERSY-LADEN AGENDA ON CAPITOL HILL The president will try to rally Senate[Read More…]
Governor reviews first 10 months in office, Justice: ‘I think we’re just really starting on our way’
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Throughout his 2016 campaign, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said it would take him about 10 months to put the Mountain State back on the road to recovery. Ten months into his term, Justice’s predictions might not be far off, even[Read More…]
IEI Plastics warehouse contents ranged from mundane to toxic
By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — More than 500 pages of material safety data sheets show a range of mundane and potentially toxic products which could have been stored in the IEI Plastics warehouse in south Parkersburg which burned for more than a week in[Read More…]
Recycling industry weighs in on IEI fire
By MICHAEL KELLY The Parkersburg News and Sentinel MARIETTA, W.Va. — Representatives of the recycling industry have been quick to try to put some distance between their businesses and the Parkersburg site where a week-long industrial fire took place in October. The Intercontinental Export Import operation at the former Ames[Read More…]
Revitalizing Princeton: Business growth, renovations changing atmosphere of city
By CHARLES BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Anyone driving down Mercer Street in Princeton can quickly notice the changes made in recent years, with new businesses, beautification projects and building renovations. From the coming reopening of the iconic Jimmy’s Restaurant and a new microbrewery to the Princeton Renaissance[Read More…]
Year closes on first public industrial hemp grown in decades
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — According to “The Columbia History of the World,” the oldest relic of human industry, a small piece of hemp fabric, dates back to approximately 8,000 B.C. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp and, at times, its growth was mandatory to[Read More…]
Shoppers buy local in support of Small Business Saturday
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Pop-up shops were scattered all across downtown Beckley Saturday as a part of Small Business Saturday, a day celebrated all over the region, in which small, independent businesses sell their unique gift items to locals in hopes of them finding that perfect[Read More…]
Nation’s first mechanical biological treatment – waste-to-fuel facility to open in Martinsburg
By MARLA HAISLIP The State Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Located on Grapevine Road adjacent to a well-established recycling center on 12 acres is a 55,000 square-foot building under construction that is designed to turn household and municipal solid waste into solid fuel. The cost of the project by Entsorga West[Read More…]
