By CHERYL KEENAN The Fayette Tribune GAULEY BRIDGE, W.Va. — Travelers in the New River Gorge area are accustomed to peering into the beautiful ancient wonder of the chasm housing the New River as it winds its way from North Carolina to join the Gauley River at Gauley Bridge. A[Read More…]
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Blankenship launches petition for access to November ballot
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A candidate who lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate has started the petition drive as another party’s nominee for ballot access in the November general election. Don Blankenship came in third in the May 8 primary and 15[Read More…]
AEP Foundation awards $450,000 STEM grant to strengthen math skills
HD Media The Herald-Dispatch WEST HAMLIN, W.Va. – The American Electric Power Foundation announced a nearly half-million-dollar grant to The Education Alliance to strengthen STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, according to a news release. The funding will help support the Energizing steM Education initiative in elementary schools in[Read More…]
WVU researchers investigate link between sleep apnea treatment and diabetes management
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For adults with diabetes, managing the disease is a day-in, day-out effort to control the factors that affect blood sugar levels. A team of scientists, including two West Virginia University professors, is researching how one aspect of a patient’s daily routine could help keep blood[Read More…]
An original comic in Charles Town
Spirit of Jefferson CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Rob Snyder is the Spirit of Jefferson’s publisher, and also a photographer, writer, copy editor, editorial cartoonist, headline writer and ad salesman. He’s also the weekly paper’s sole comic strip artist. Snyder’s original comic strip, Pet Peevy, has been running each week in[Read More…]
10 things to know: Thursday, June 7
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Thursday, June 7, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. ANALYSIS: HUD PLAN WOULD RAISE RENTS FOR POOR BY 20 PERCENT Housing Secretary Ben Carson[Read More…]
Deadline extended for Marshall University’s high school journalism workshop, June 24-27
Four-day campus event on communications in 21st century free for students HUNTINGTON, W.VA. — Do you have or know of a high school student interested in journalism and thinking about attending college to study journalism? Marshall University and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications is hosting[Read More…]
Senators Capito, Manchin announce more than $13 million for West Virginia airports
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 total of $13,974,736 in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to support improvement projects at airports in Raleigh, Kanawha, Mercer, and Greenbrier counties. “Our local[Read More…]
Trump Jr. stumps for West Virginia AG Morrisey in US Senate run
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Donald Trump Jr. joined the West Virginia attorney general on the campaign trail Tuesday in an effort to hitch the latter’s U.S. Senate bid to economic success reported under the current presidential administration. Trump, son of President Donald Trump, spoke to reporters[Read More…]
