From office of U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins: WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) today helped pass a five-year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. The legislation, the Championing Healthy Kids Act, passed the House 242-174 and now heads to the Senate. The bill also reauthorizes Federal[Read More…]
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Media Alert: U.S. Sen. Capito to make broadband announcement in Upshur County
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – On Monday, Nov. 6, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) will join representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a major broadband grant announcement. Senator Capito will also discuss her ongoing Capito Connect campaign and the recently announced West Virginia Speed Test. Members of the[Read More…]
Verl, Sandra Purdy make $5 million gift commitment to WVU
News Release from WVU: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University graduate Verl O. Purdy attributes much of his success to the education and opportunities he received as a student at WVU in the 1960s. The Poca native, who founded the largest agricultural data analysis and marketing company in the world, and[Read More…]
West Virginia honors 34 businesses for exporting to new markets
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia businesses export a diverse range of products, from aluminum coil to video distribution, construction coatings to silk yarns. In an awards ceremony today, 34 companies received the Governor’s Commendation for International Market Entry for exporting to a new country in the previous year. The awards are[Read More…]
$1 million Robert E. Douglas Jr. scholarship established at Davis & Elkins College, W.Va.
From Davis & Elkins College: ELKINS, W.Va. – The late Rob Douglas, Class of 1984, never intended to spend his entire college career at Davis & Elkins. As it turned out, he grew to love the College in a short time and transferring never again crossed his mind. With each semester[Read More…]
Purifying wastewater: EPC America unveils BioDisk sewage system in Cavitt’s Creek
By CHARLIE BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph TAZEWELL, Va. — A potential “game changer” in wastewater treatment was unveiled at Cavitt’s Creek Park in Tazewell County Friday morning, the result of an international partnership between the county and an Israeli company. Called the Bio-Disk Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC), it “combines nature[Read More…]
W.Va. Coal River Group awarded WV Development Office grant to promote water trail regionally
By Rick Steelhammer The Charleston Gazette Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A $115,000 grant from the West Virginia Development Office will allow the Coal River Group to launch a marketing campaign aimed at drawing visitors from outside the state to the 88-mile Coal River Water Trail. “We have done amazing things[Read More…]
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Schumer backs Joe Manchin at WV Democratic fundraiser
By Jake Zuckerman The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The most powerful Democrat in the U.S. Senate buoyed up the re-election campaign of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in a speech at a fundraiser Friday, on the cusp of what could be a vicious election season. Speaking at the state party’s[Read More…]
Fayette County, W.Va., Commission votes to dissolve Arbuckle PSD
By Jessica Farrish The Register-Herald of Beckley, W.Va. FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — After hearing impassioned objections and technical and financial arguments presented by ratepayers of Arbuckle Public Service District during a one-hour hearing Friday morning, Fayette County Commission voted to dissolve Arbuckle PSD. Under plans approved by the commission and the[Read More…]
Editorial: Braidy Industries project in Kentucky shows value of ready industrial sites
From The Herald Dispatch of Huntington: Braidy Industries’ plan to build a $1.4 billion aluminum plant in Northeast Kentucky developed a hiccup when the company learned that the soil makeup at its selected site in South Shore, Kentucky, wasn’t adequate to support the necessary heavy machinery. Fortunately, the company and[Read More…]
