Grant projects include public water systems, education and workforce development CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today announced recommendations for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Investment Program grants. The recommended projects total more than $4.3 million in grant funding. “From public water systems to education and workforce development, the projects I’ve recommended for funding[Read More…]
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Senior citizens rally set for Tuesday
WVPA Sharing photos will be available EDITOR’S NOTE: The WVPA will take photos at this rally and distribute them to all member newspapers. Editors should watch emails and look for postings after 1 p.m. CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The West Virginia Directors of Senior and Community Services will host a rally[Read More…]
W.Va. State seeks self-sufficiency with gas wells
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Last Wednesday, West Virginia State University began using a new source of natural gas — from under the university itself. The first of three natural gas wells to be built on the Institute campus came online at 2 p.m. Wednesday. A crew from Spencer-based Reserve Oil[Read More…]
W.Va. authorities get suspected ‘doctor shopper’ list
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy has given police the names of 90 suspected “doctor shoppers,” who solicited an excessive number of prescriptions for pain pills over the past year. A pharmacy board committee generated the list after reviewing the state’s controlled-substances database. One of the individuals[Read More…]
I-79 technology park is W.Va. crown jewel
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — To explain the mission of the West Virginia High Technology Foundation, President and CEO Jim Estep went back in time to the late 1980s. U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd had just become chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “As chair of that committee, Sen. Byrd had incredible[Read More…]
Huntington mayor leads city in prayer for addicts
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — On Monday, Sept. 8, it will have been one year since David and Ann Niday found out their 26-year-old son, Michael, had passed away in Florida due to a drug overdose. On Sunday morning after the handbells rang out their somber song, the couple joined Dr. Skip[Read More…]
W.Va. officials feeling pressure for online gambling
WHEELING, W.Va. — Consider these numbers: Since 2009, table gambling receipts have declined 76 percent at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, according to the West Virginia Lottery Commission. Slot machines haven’t fared much better at the Wheeling track, dropping from a high of $2.2 billion put into the machines in 2004 to[Read More…]
Marshall County to see yet another pipeline
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. – Contractors are planning to build another 42-inch pipeline to send up to 3.25 billion cubic feet of Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas daily across Ohio for use in Michigan and Canada via Rover’s $4.3 billion project. As Dominion Resources and its partners proceed with their $5[Read More…]
Bad guys have better weapons, too
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Would it surprise you to learn that military weaponry in the hands of police departments is nothing new? It came as a revelation to several younger people with whom I discussed the controversy over the Defense Department[Read More…]
Falling ranks of in-state dental students is sad trend
An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Just a few years ago, in 2010, about 80 percent of the incoming class at West Virginia University’s School of Dentistry was Mountain State residents. But the number of West Virginians entering the school this year is just 27, or about 45[Read More…]
