Television news, which thrives on dramatic videos, has spent most of the summer showing terrible wildfires ripping through Western states, destroying homes, killing firefighters, costing taxpayers billions, sickening some residents through smoke pollution. Wildfires are one of many expensive evils being inflicted on Planet Earth by global warming. Others include[Read More…]
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The Associated Press shares 10 things to know for Aug. 31
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press’s business development specialist for West Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers: 1. POLICE SEEK 2 NEW SUSPECTS IN BANGKOK BOMBING PROBE A Thai[Read More…]
Couple to reopen Charleston’s iconic Blossom Dairy
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Blossom Dairy is on its way to another renaissance. Tim and Valerie Street, owners of the EZ Street bar in St. Albans, got the keys to the iconic Quarrier Street eatery on Wednesday, Valerie Street said Thursday morning. “We definitely want to give it a new facelift,”[Read More…]
New office could bring transparency, trust
A Daily Mail editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Finding, investigating and removing corruption from state government is a laudable goal, and one the Republican-led Legislature seems to take seriously. As the Gazette-Mail’s Eric Eyre reported Thursday, some state lawmakers are looking into establishing an inspector general’s office, similar[Read More…]
W.Va. workers rally for oil, gas industry jobs
WHEELING, W.Va. — Last year, with natural gas selling around $1.30 per unit higher than it is now, roughly 5,000 members of the Upper Ohio Valley Building Trades Council saw “full employment” because they built processing plants and compressor stations across the Marcellus and Utica shale regions. Now, the workers[Read More…]
Randolph County officials mark courthouse redo
ELKINS, W.Va. — Elected officials and community leaders gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of the remodeled Randolph County Courthouse. The event included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, remarks from Randolph County Commission President Mike Taylor and Circuit Court Judge David Wilmoth, and tours of the remodeled facility. After individually thanking everyone[Read More…]
Proctor & Gamble to break ground in September
TABLER STATION, W.Va. — The highly anticipated arrival of Procter & Gamble’s Tabler Station facility is due to break ground Sept. 18 in a ceremonial groundbreaking, with construction expected to begin in October. During the groundbreaking, which is not open to the public, the company is expected to announce what[Read More…]
Ex-Consol miner wins $586K in hand-scanning case
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — After a court order, a Marion County resident has been granted more than half a million dollars stemming from a lawsuit involving Consolidation Coal Co. and its parent company, Consol Energy Inc. According to Mary Tiernan, a program analyst with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),[Read More…]
New school chief reveals two-high school plan for Fayette County
HICO, W.Va. — Around 250 residents gathered in the Midland Trail High School auditorium Thursday to hear Fayette Superintendent Terry George’s facility realignment plan that will trim the school district’s 18 schools down to 11. He proposed a two high school model. George said, if approved by the State Board[Read More…]
Massive drug sweep staged in Fayette, Nicholas
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Authorities delivered a dose of “Mountain Justice” Thursday to individuals alleged to be involved with illegal drug activities in Fayette and Nicholas counties. The well-coordinated bevy of breakfast-time arrests yielded what authorities describe as possibly the largest roundup of alleged drug offenders in West Virginia history. The Central[Read More…]
