Bipartisan Resolution Calls for Release of Women Political Prisoners Around the World WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined all 20 women senators to introduce the bipartisan #FreeThe20 resolution to support the empowerment of women and urge countries to release women held unjustly. Earlier this month, U.S.[Read More…]
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Audobon Int’l recognizes environmental efforts at Stonewall Resort
WESTON, W.Va. – Audubon International recently announced that Stonewall Resort’s Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course has retained its Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program Certification. Jason Hollen, golf course superintendent at Stonewall Resort said, “We take environmental stewardship very seriously at Stonewall Resort, and we’re honored that Audubon International recognizes our commitment[Read More…]
Manchin, Capito urge West Virginians to participate in drug take-back day this Saturday
National Drug Take-Back Day is an opportunity to help reduce the risk of prescription drug abuse and increase awareness of this critical public health epidemic Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today urged West Virginians to participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA)[Read More…]
Martinsburg man relates intruder’s attack on disabled wife
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The husband of the victim in last week’s home invasion on the 300 block of Chestnut Street is speaking out about the day he discovered his wife severely beaten inside her bedroom. One neighbor called it “a vicious, uncalled-for beating I don’t even think a young man[Read More…]
Endowment can help put litter in its place
An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Many of us who live in the Eastern Panhandle have grown numb to the staggering amount of trash littering our roadsides. But we’ve also heard time and time again that the garbage piled up alongside so many of our local roads is an[Read More…]
Bethany College names new president
BETHANY, W.Va. — Bethany College officials today named the Rev. Dr. Tamara Nichols Rodenberg as its new president, effective Jan. 1. Rodenberg becomes Bethany’s 20th president and the second woman to hold the top post in the institution’s 175-year history. She succeeds Dr. Scott D. Miller, who left the college[Read More…]
Bethany College ideal is enduring
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Liberal arts schooling has become irrelevant during an era of fast-paced change in which many young people want colleges and universities to provide them with the credentials needed to pursue specific careers, some in higher education believe. Someone forgot to convince the[Read More…]
Macy’s W.Va. center to hire 2,900 seasonal workers
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Macy’s has begun its winter hiring increase for seasonal workers at its Martinsburg eCommerce Fulfillment Center and expects to fill 2,900 jobs during the holiday season. The center is now advertising walk-in interviews and an online applications process through Macy’s website, www.macysjobs.com. Walk-in interview hours are 9[Read More…]
Acclaimed W.Va. fiddle player, radio host dies
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Iconic local musician Joe Dobbs died Monday. He was 81. Dobbs, who moved to West Virginia in 1967, left his mark on the music scene in the Mountain State in myriad ways. The always smiling, and sweet spirited fiddler founded the Huntington-based 1937 Flood in the 1970s[Read More…]
W.Va. officials try to keep dead fugitive’s $167,000 cash, property
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A fugitive from Northern West Virginia who allegedly kept running for years, his flight ending only with a fatal car crash, reportedly left behind $167,000 in cash, two guns, a motorcycle, an ATV and utility trailers. That’s what the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department and Mon-Metro Drug and[Read More…]
