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Huntington, sees second-wettest year on record; other West Virginia cities soggy as well
By TRAVIS CRUM The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington experienced its second-wettest year on record in 2018, joining several West Virginia cities that saw precipitation accumulations far above average annual totals. The city’s year-to-date precipitation total was 60.25 inches on Monday, which was just shy of the record 62.44 inches[Read More…]
Inspiration for the Netflix series ‘Narcos’ meets with Southern West Virginia
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Local police officers ended 2018 with a surprise when a former Bluefield police officer who later played a role in bringing the world’s wealthiest and most notorious narco-terrorist to justice stopped by their station for a visit. Princeton Police Chief T.A.[Read More…]
New ‘Mountaineer Heritage’ hunting season kicks off Jan. 10 in West Virginia
By JOHN McCOY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — January will have something new in store for West Virginia’s deer and bear hunters. A brand-new four-day hunt — the “Mountaineer Heritage” season — will allow primitive-weapons enthusiasts to extend their big-game hunting into 2019. The season will be open to hunters[Read More…]
Performers prepare for another GoodNight to sing in the New Year in Charleston
By CAITY COYNE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For a 24th year, Charlestonians will be able to ring in the New Year with music and dancing at the annual GoodNight celebration Monday evening. At 10 different venues spread throughout the city, solo and group performers will take turns putting on[Read More…]
President Trump renames NASA facility in Fairmont to honor White Sulphur Springs native Katherine Johnson
Mountain Messenger LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Jill Upson, executive director of the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs, spearheaded the process in February 2017. Upson, a state delegate at that time, co-sponsored bill HCR 26 which encouraged Congress to rename the NASA IV & V facility to recognize Katherine Johnson, whose[Read More…]
WVPA ‘Legislative Lookahead’ panels set for Friday; Registration continues
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration continues for the West Virginia Press Association’s Legislative Lookahead on Friday, Jan. 4, at the West Virginia Cultural Center at the Capitol Complex, 1900 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV 25317 The annual series of panel discussions preview issues the state Legislature will address during the session. AGENDA: Panel 1. –[Read More…]
For Register-Herald managing editor Dawn Dayton it wasn’t all “moonbeams and unicorns”
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — She saw the Women’s Revolution and the advent of the newsroom Mac, the death of the darkroom and the rise of the internet. When the Ghent gas station exploded, and when the 29 local miners died at Upper Big Branch mine, she helped provide[Read More…]
The wild and wonderful books of 2018
By DAVE LAVENDER The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As Mark Twain once stated, “his death had been greatly exaggerated,” and so it seems with the publishing industry where book sales and the number of books being published continue to climb. In fact, Bowker, the official ISBN agency in the U.S.,[Read More…]
