West Virginia organization among recipients WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the 80 winners of the second annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. The recipients represent 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico including WV Hive from Beckley, West Virginia. Accelerators serve entrepreneurs in[Read More…]
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WV Women Work: State losing nonprofit that helps women find work?
CHARLESTON, W.VA. — West Virginia Women Work has helped women find employment for 15 years, but that is about to end. With training sites in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg, the nonprofit WVWW has trained and placed hundreds of women in non-traditional, higher-paying jobs across the state since 2000. The nonprofit’s 11-week,[Read More…]
Preston County ISP expanding services, want to alleviate residents’ “broadband woes”
By Amanda Shaffer For The Preston County News & Journal HAZELTON, W.Va. — Internet and highspeed broadband in North Preston County has been problematic, as many residents have either little or no access. But a Hazelton technology company is hoping to change of that by making a nearly $2 million investment in new fiber-optic lines.“We are[Read More…]
Capito: Devastating Clean Power Grab will harm American families
“Mr. President, your Clean Power Grab will devastate already hurting communities in my state. It will cause economic pain for working families across the country. And it will forever harm our energy landscape.” – Senator Capito WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment[Read More…]
U.S. 60 road slip won’t be fixed before Bridge Day
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Major road damage blocking one lane of U.S. 60 near Ansted won’t be repaired prior to Bridge Day. Department of Highways Communication Specialist Carrie Bly said the Turkey Creek/Ansted slide on U.S. 60 went out on bid Tuesday. The completion date for the project, as anticipated by[Read More…]
Beckley native finds success in fashion design
BECKLEY, W.Va. — In many ways, fashion designer Ripley Rader has come a long way since her high school days of wearing window treatment miniskirts. In others, she’s the same girl, with different fabric, a different name and a different ZIP code. In the late 1990s, Suzanne Rader — Ripley[Read More…]
Final EPA plan ‘a much tougher road’ for WV
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia faces a requirement for tougher emissions cuts under a final federal rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas pollution from the nation’s power plants, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents and interviews with experts who are reviewing the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan,” released earlier this[Read More…]
Photo of W.Va. veteran prominent in Calif. museum
SAN FRANCISCO — Jim Pappas walked through the museum doors and exclaimed, “That’s my brother!” Pappas, 91, of Wood County immediately recognized his brother Paul as one of three crew members in large photographs in the USS Pampanito submarine museum at Pier 45 on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Pappas was[Read More…]
Clean Power Plan will harm this region
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — President Barack Obama is dishonest and delusional. The Clean Power Plan he and his Environmental Protection Agency have developed is a targeted, illegal attack. And Obama attempted to fend off criticism of his effort – the worst combination of Quixote[Read More…]
FEC OKs public broadcasting for Mingo, Logan counties
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. – Recent approval from the Federal Communications Commission allows West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) to begin broadcasting WVPB programming in Mingo, Logan and surrounding areas. In October 2014, the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority approved the purchase of former WVKM 106.7 FM radio station located at Matewan-Buskirk for[Read More…]
