ELKINS, W.Va. — Each Spring visitors to the Elkins Depot Welcome Center are greeted by a train whistle and the smell of ramps as the location hosts the annual Ramps & Rail Festival in honor of two of the region’s historic features. The mountains around the Randolph County community are[Read More…]
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Op-Ed: Legislative session a refreshing change with progress on key issues
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Given the tide-turning November elections and the exceptional class of incoming legislators, expectations were high for the 81st Legislature. Now that the 2015 session is complete, it is the opinion of many Capitol-watchers that we have witnessed the most productive and efficiently run 60-day legislative session the[Read More…]
Gov. Tomblin vetoes concealed weapons bill
Governor cites law enforcement and public safety concerns in vetoing SB347 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today vetoed Senate Bill 347, creating Firearms Act of 2015. The bill, which some opponents had labeled the ‘Wild West’ bill in public discussion, would allow anyone to carry a concealed weapon without first obtaining a permit:[Read More…]
Elkins nondiscrimination measure OK’d on 6-4 vote
ELKINS, W.Va. — Equality was the central theme of a resolution before Elkins City Council Thursday – and in the end, an almost equal number of votes were cast on either side of the issue. With approximately 150 concerned citizens in attendance, Council voted 6-4 to pass a nondiscrimination resolution,[Read More…]
Federal, state officials raid Raleigh County clinic
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Federal and state law enforcement agencies executed a federal warrant on the Hope Clinic in Beaver on Thursday, both shocking and leaving arriving patients wondering about their medications. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Booth Goodwin confirmed that federal officers are conducting an investigation[Read More…]
Protecting access to public information vital
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A cornerstone of government in America is that an informed public will do a better job of selecting leaders and be in a better position to resist actions that run counter to the best interests of the people. To be informed, those[Read More…]
Agriculture chief leaves a great legacy
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Across the Mountain State, praise is pouring in for the man who guided West Virginia’s agricultural efforts longer than any other state agricultural commissioner in the country. As friends and family mourn the loss of Gus Douglass, who died[Read More…]
Truck maker investing $8M in W.Va. expansion
WILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va. — A Williamstown manufacturing plant will be expanding its operations. Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. confirmed Thursday it is investing around $8 million at its truck assembly facility in Wood County. The company will be adding 30,000 square feet to its building, as well as a new breakroom,[Read More…]
W.Va. Sen. Jeff Kessler weighs run for governor
WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia Senate Minority Leader Jeff Kessler plans to ask voters for a promotion in 2016, as the Marshall County Democrat filed papers Thursday in preparation to run for governor next year. Kessler officially changed his pre-candidacy status at the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, a[Read More…]
‘You have to get the story…then you have to tell it’
So taught retired WVU journalism professor Paul Atkins, now 91 By Jim Bissett The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Ed Buckbee never forgot how the wiry little guy with the big round glasses shot out of The Daily Athenaeum newsroom like a rocket that day. On that October day in 1957, all of America — which included a handful of[Read More…]
