Press Release from the Family Medicine Foundation of W.Va.: BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. – The Family Medicine Foundation of West Virginia will host its 33rd Annual Jose I. Ricard, MD Family Medicine & Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 8-10 in Huntington, W.Va. “This continuing education conference has grown to become the region’s[Read More…]
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Pallottine Foundation of Huntington Awards nearly $2 million to area nonprofits
Press Release from The Pallottine Foundation of Huntington: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Pallottine Foundation of Huntington has announced its first round of grant awards, totaling $1,938,945, to 43 organizations serving 20 counties in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. Grants include capacity building funds for smaller organizations, and two-year funding grants[Read More…]
10 things to know: Wednesday, Sept. 18
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The regional bureau of The Associated Press shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. ISRAEL’S MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES DEADLOCKED AFTER ELECTION Seeming kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman says[Read More…]
Federal proposal would cut food stamp benefits for 25,000 West Virginians
By AMELIA FERRELL KNISELY HD Media CHARLESTON, WVa. — More than 25,000 West Virginians would lose food stamp benefits under a Trump administration proposal that would change how states determine eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Nearly 300,000 West Virginia residents rely on SNAP, according to data from[Read More…]
GM plant workers in Martinsburg, W.Va., continue to protest for better pay
By Breanna Francis, The Journal of Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Community members shouted and honked in support of the roughly 90 Martinsburg United Auto Workers striking along GM Access Road off W.Va.9 on Day 2 of a nationwide strike against General Motors. Vanessa Banks, local 1590 UAW president, said this[Read More…]
Senators Capito, Manchin announce $6 Million for W.Va. home visiting program
Release from the Senator Capito: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a grant of $6,031,476 for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. Funding is provided[Read More…]
Barnhart appointed to W.Va. House of Delegates in District 7
By Steven Allen Adams, Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For the first time in 13 years, Pleasants County will have a native representing most of the county as well as all of Ritchie County in the 7th District House of Delegates. Gov. Jim Justice announced Tuesday that Trenton[Read More…]
WVRHC receives fifth NEH grant to digitize historical newspapers
Press Release from WVUToday: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Libraries’ West Virginia & Regional History Center has received a $201,917 grant – its fifth from the National Endowment for the Humanities – to continue digitizing newspapers published in West Virginia from 1790 to 1923. The award is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program,[Read More…]
Editorial: Bankruptcy allows opioid makers to hide
From Charleston Gazette-Mail: Were he alive today, British wordsmith Samuel Johnson might remark that bankruptcy is the last refuge of a scoundrel. That will be the final refuge for Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, which made billions off of the development and marketing of OxyContin, the drug[Read More…]
