By Chris ColinFor ACE Adventure Resort Oak Hill — Get ready for one of West Virginia’s premier music festival experiences as Mountain Music Festival returns to ACE Adventure Resort June 4th–6th, 2026, for an unforgettable weekend in the heart of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Featuring a stacked[Read More…]
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Concerns raised about America 250 plans
By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Inter-Mountain Charleston – A new task force planning celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is not competing with a commission created by the Legislature five years ago to do the same thing, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. During a[Read More…]
Beckley Art Center hosts first-ever live art auction
By Micah M. Mocnik For The Register-Herald Beckley — The Beckley Art Center auction turned donated collections into community support this week. The Center hosted an art auction Thursday evening to raise money for the center and Hope in the Mountains, a faith-based, non-denominational nonprofit serving communities in southern West Virginia.[Read More…]
Parts of Pocahontas, Greenbrier deemed critical habit for endangered bee
By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it has designated portions of Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties perched along the Virginia border as “critical habitat,” vital to the recovery of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee. Nearly all of the designated West Virginia land lies within the Monongahela[Read More…]
University of Charleston Awards Presidential Scholarships to Five Outstanding West Virginia Seniors
By C.J. HarveyFor University of Charleston Charleston – Five of West Virginia’s most accomplished high school seniors have earned the highest honor the University of Charleston offers: the Presidential Scholarship. Valued at nearly $180,000, the scholarship covers full tuition, fees, housing, and meals for four years – removing financial barriers[Read More…]
Some Gave All. Can We Give a Little?
By Greg KozeraFor Thoughts to Ponder December 1967, our family was watching TV when the phone rang. It was Uncle Joe, Dad’s older brother. Mom handed Dad the phone. Dad’s eyes got wet. Looking down, in a whisper he announced, “Austin (our cousin, Dad’s nephew) was killed in Vietnam.” I[Read More…]
WV drinking water plea poised to go unheeded in U.S. House after state-level strikeout
By Mike TonyFor HDMedia Deep water worries have long been a way of life in West Virginia. People throughout the Mountain State, namely in the poverty-challenged southern coalfields, have contended with discolored water that stains their household appliances and clothes, leave them with skin rashes and send them trekking up[Read More…]
Greenbrier Financing Plan Revealed — Mostly
By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Intelligencer Charleston – Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family provided a redacted term sheet for a possible new loan to pay off remaining debts owed by the Greenbrier Resort and related properties to a federal judge by a Wednesday deadline while seeking[Read More…]
WVU researcher finds surprising phenomenon in NASA data from Mars
By Rachel BroskyFor WVU, Today Data beamed back from Mars by the NASA spacecraft MAVEN provides the first evidence that a phenomenon protecting planets from solar winds can occur in the atmospheres of worlds that lack strong magnetic fields, according to research led by West Virginia University planetary scientist Christopher Fowler. Fowler, a[Read More…]
Gov. Morrisey announces America 250 merchandise, calls for bells to be rung on July 4
By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 36 days away, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby announced new merchandise for West Virginians to buy and called on state communities to ring their[Read More…]
