Theme for 2019 is ‘Trees are Terrific … In the Right Place’; Free educational guide available Press Release from the West Virginia Division of Forestry CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia fourth and fifth grade students can showcase their artistic talents by creating posters for the 2019 Arbor Day contest. The poster[Read More…]
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Natural gas to cost less in W.Va., Ky.
The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia and Kentucky residents who heat their homes with natural gas will see somewhat lower prices at the start of the 2018-19 heating season than they did a year ago, while some rates in Ohio show a slight increase. In Kentucky, when base rates —[Read More…]
Jackson County program building ‘tiny homes’ for veterans in need
By BARBARA LEYTON Jackson Newspapers RIPLEY, W.Va. — Operation Jackson County Veterans is building tiny houses for vets in need. Stephen Hartley, a Marine veteran who served in Desert Storm and Somalia, and his wife Krista, started their 501c3 non-profit organization in 2016 when they lost a veteran friend to[Read More…]
Anti-vaccine billboards crop up as WV lawmakers talk loosening requirements
By JAKE JARVIS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As a wave of anti-vaccine billboards are cropping up in cities across West Virginia, lawmakers are considering proposing new legislation to weaken vaccine requirements for school children. A group of lawmakers plans to propose a bill next session which would cut the[Read More…]
Parkersburg News and Sentinel sports reporter Steve Hemmelgarn retires after 46 years
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — One of the most recognizable sportswriters in the Mid-Ohio Valley retired Friday from The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Steve Hemmelgarn started with the newspaper in 1972, back in the day when Jim Snyder was sports editor and Jim Young[Read More…]
Canaan refuge drops plan to use commercial logging for habitat management
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail CANAAN VALLEY, W.Va. — A plan to commercially log more than 1,600 acres of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge to achieve plant and wildlife habitat improvement goals has been dropped. The plan — announced to the public in August — was initially scheduled to[Read More…]
WV students experiencing ‘College Application and Exploration Week’
Press Release from the West Virginia’s Higher Education Policy Commission: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia’s Higher Education Policy Commission (Commission) is helping more than 100,000 students from 420 schools across the state learn about education after they graduate from high school during College Application and Exploration Week, Nov. 5-9. Today kicks[Read More…]
Spotted in Pocahontas: Insect fashion show
The Pocahontas Times MARLINTON, W.Va. — Last week The Pocahontas Times asked about a spotted bug found on Thistlewood Farm. This September, one of those orange and black bugs showed up in the company of a cloud of migrating butterflies. Now called the “Ailanthus Webworm Moth,” it looks like a[Read More…]
