by KATE SHUNNEY Morgan County’s Economic Development Authority director Daryl Cowles has resigned, saying he accepted a new job with the governor’s office. County Commissioners, in their first meeting of 2021, said the EDA board of directors would be starting their search process for a replacement this week. Commissioner Sean Forney[Read More…]
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Coronavirus Update: West Virginia with 94,678 positive cases, 1,516 deaths, 60,933 vaccines administered as of 10 a.m. today
Free testing sites listed; Harvard Global Health COVID Map not available today WV Press Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Here are the totals from the West Virginia Health and Human Resources website as of 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6. West Virginia Cases Total Positive Cases – 94,678 Current Active Cases –[Read More…]
Struggling West Virginia restaurant owners, managers find Greenbrier party hard to swallow
By Maria Young, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Matt Welsch, owner of Vagabond Kitchen in Wheeling, said he typically does several thousand dollars’ worth of business on New Year’s Eve. Last week, he shut the doors instead. “We did nothing,” Welsch said. “Considering where everything’s at and our [statewide COVID-19][Read More…]
Dam replacement at Glenwood Park granted almost $4M in federal funds by Manchin, Capito
By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph GLENWOOD, W.Va. — A project to replace the dam at Glenwood Park may begin soon as an almost $4 million grant has been approved for the work. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito made the grant announcement Tuesday, saying the more than $3.7[Read More…]
Project tracks final resting place of West Virginians lost during Vietnam War
HD Media, The Herald Dispatch WAYNE, W.Va. — More than a half-century after small-arms fire killed Sgt. Archie Melvin Ellyson in a Vietnam battlefield southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Linda Whaley found him in England. The soldier from Richwood was the last of 734 servicemen Whaley tracked to ensure[Read More…]
West Virginia’s Mountain State Maple Days set
The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — The West Virginia Maple Syrup Producer’s Association is thrilled to announce the 2021 Mountain State Maple Days will be taking place on two separate days: Saturday, Feb. 20, and Saturday, March 20, across the state. This event celebrates West Virginia’s growing maple syrup industry by[Read More…]
Coronavirus Update: West Virginia with 93,162 positive cases, 1,442 deaths, 56,354 vaccines administered as of 10 a.m. today
Free testing sites listed; Harvard Global Health COVID Map not available today WV Press Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Here are the totals from the West Virginia Health and Human Resources website as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5. West Virginia Cases Total Positive Cases – 93,162 Current Active Cases –[Read More…]
‘Food for thought’: How West Virginia parents can help children develop a positive self-image and relationship with food
From WVU Today: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As a new year begins – and the inevitable wave of health-related resolutions go into effect – one West Virginia University researcher reminds parents in particular of the critical role they play when it comes to shaping their children’s self-image and lifelong relationship with food. According to Elizabeth[Read More…]
U.S. Sen. Capito issues statement on upcoming vote on Congressional certification of the 2020 Presidential election results
From the Office of U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., today issued the below statement on the upcoming vote to certify the results of the Electoral College: “Americans went to the polls to carry out the most important task in our representative government—they[Read More…]
U.S. Sen. Manchin among bipartisan senators issuing statement on upcoming vote on Congressional certification of the 2020 Presidential election results
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Warner (D-VA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Angus King (I-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) issued the following statement on the[Read More…]
