BECKLEY, W.Va. — Beckley attorney Bill Wooton announced Thursday he will make a bid for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 2016. “Now is the time,” Wooton, a former state senator and delegate, said. He said past plans to run for a seat on the state’s highest court[Read More…]
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Osteopathic school gets record gift from BrickStreet
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Just two years after contributing $600,000 in scholarship funds to the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, The BrickStreet Foundation has upped the ante, endowing scholarships to the tune of an additional $900,000, the largest single gift in WVSOM’s 43-year history. The announcement of the foundation’s substantial[Read More…]
Demand for newspapers will continue
A column for The Register-Herald by former reporter and freelancer John Blankenship BECKLEY, W.Va. — Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, stated that we can never step into the same river twice. If we consider time as a river, and the changing generations, those who enter and define that river, it is obvious[Read More…]
WVU rents ice rink to relieve finals week stress
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Thursday night, Fun Before Finals week brought another opportunity for West Virginia University students to chill before finals start next week. The University rented a portable ice rink for the Mountainlair plaza. Once again, the goal was to provide students with an easy, inexpensive way to have[Read More…]
Wood County judge dismisses open meetings case
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A complaint accusing four City Council members of violating the state’s open meetings law was dismissed Thursday, but the councilwoman who filed plans to appeal the decision to the West Virginia Supreme Court. Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane granted a motion to dismiss Councilman Roger Brown[Read More…]
WV natural gas reserves among highest in US
WHEELING, W.Va. — The Marcellus, Utica and Rogersville shales may just be the beginning of the prolific natural gas formations in the Appalachian Mountains, as West Virginia now boasts more proved reserves of the fuel than any other states except Texas, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. Data from the U.S. Energy Information[Read More…]
Interim president named at Alderson Broaddus
PHILIPPI, W.Va. — The Alderson Broaddus University Board of Trustees has chosen James “Tim” Barry, Ed.D., to serve as interim president until a new president is selected. Barry will be on campus Monday to begin introducing and orienting himself to ABU and the community. He will officially take office Dec.[Read More…]
Clerical error delays vote on PEIA benefits cut
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A vote to cut health insurance benefits for more than 200,000 public employees and retirees by more than $120 million next year was postponed Thursday — not by a last-minute reprieve, but by a clerical error. Members of the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board were poised[Read More…]
UBB family members’ reactions mixed on verdict
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A split verdict — one that brings a maximum of just one year in prison when 30 years loomed, but one billed as the first-ever conviction of a major CEO for workplace safety violations — brought mixed emotions from family members who lost loved ones in the Upper[Read More…]
Blankenship found guilty on one of three counts
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Massey Energy Co. chief executive Don Blankenship, once one of the most powerful men in the region’s coal industry, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury of conspiring to violate mine safety and health standards at Massey’s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 miners died in an[Read More…]
