BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. ─ Each year more than 250,000 service members transition out of the armed forces. Statistics show that veterans are 45 percent more likely to be their own boss than their non-veteran counterparts. That is why the U.S. Small Business Administration is dedicated to ensuring veterans and their families have[Read More…]
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MEDIA ALERT: Cole’s ‘Get West Virginia Moving’ Tour visiting around the state
Gubernatorial candidate in Webster County today Charleston, W.Va. – West Virginia Senate President Bill Cole will take his ‘Get West Virginia Moving’ tour to Webster, Pocahontas, Logan, Mingo, Lincoln, and Cabell, counties this week. All media are welcome to the events. For more information, contact Kent Gates at [email protected] The details are[Read More…]
Small Business Authority lending at new high
More than $23.6 billion by 7(a) Program; Community Advantage Reaches $100 Million and Recruits 100th Lender WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fiscal year 2015 proved yet another stellar year for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), as most of its financial assistance programs reached new, all-time records, which translates into substantially increased[Read More…]
WVU chief says Montgomery won’t be abandoned
BECKLEY, W.Va. — In May 2017 WVU Tech will close its doors and its students will move to West Virginia University’s Beckley campus. But according to WVU president E. Gordon Gee, WVU isn’t abandoning Montgomery, a regional campus since 1996. “We still have a significant amount of time to work[Read More…]
Elkins college takes no-borrowing approach
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of in-depth stories taking look at the state of higher education in North Central West Virginia. ELKINS, W.Va. — Higher education is big business, and as with any big business, there are many paths one can take toward fiscal stability and success.[Read More…]
Wheeling paper’s FOIA reveals low test scores
WHEELING, W.Va. — Northern Panhandle public school districts fared poorly on West Virginia’s Smarter Balanced Assessment Test, a review by the Sunday News-Register indicates. In both math and reading, students from Hancock to Tyler counties struggled to meet basic proficiency levels, the scores indicate. For example, in both Tyler and[Read More…]
Monitor drug pushers who are getting breaks
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Profiling – when law enforcement officers pay special attention to certain classes of people – has gotten an unmerited broad-stroke bad reputation among some Americans. But in some situations, it is entirely proper. Not using the technique would be foolish, in[Read More…]
Thousands prove running mettle in Huntington
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Glenn Carson of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, turned 59, he realized it was time to get off the couch. “There just comes a time in your life when you decide you can’t become a couch potato,” Carson said Sunday after completing the Marshall[Read More…]
Huntington community marks its Civil War history
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — More than 150 years ago, George Childers, a member of the 13th West Virginia infantry during the Civil War, was captured and taken to an Andersonville, Georgia, prison. During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined there. Of those, almost 13,000[Read More…]
Residents recall ’85 flood in hard-hit Preston County
ROWLESBURG, W.Va. — The silver light of dawn was just peeking through the windows when the sheriff’s wife roused him. It was Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985. Like many others whose houses weren’t washed away, Preston County Sheriff Jim Liller had slept through the worst flood in the history of West[Read More…]
