CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Outdoor enthusiasts in West Virginia now have the ability to plan trips on about 4,000 miles of recreational trail entirely online, whether from a desktop, tablet or smartphone. The West Virginia Trail Inventory is a digital map of hiking, biking, horseback, water and all-terrain vehicle trails throughout[Read More…]
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Wesleyan adds petroleum, natural gas degree
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — This fall, West Virginia Wesleyan will begin offering a new degree program in petroleum and natural gas geophysics. Students who go through the program will have the skills needed to enter the natural gas industry and take part in the booming development in the Marcellus and Utica[Read More…]
Charles Town man’s citizenship was hard-fought
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. – A local man spent many years and suffered many hardships while trying to become a U.S. citizen. But now, the wait is over. Odilon Lopez arrived in the United States from Mexico in 1999. He worked in Virginia, and then moved to Charles Town, working two[Read More…]
Hungry cankerworms plague Jefferson County
SHANNONDALE, W.Va. – Camille Campbell has already learned more about fall cankerworms than she ever thought possible – or wanted to know. And it doesn’t look like her entomological education will end any time soon. That’s because Campbell, her neighbors on the Blue Ridge Mountain and even other communities[Read More…]
With reunion set, Hatfield Cemetery blocked
A column by Dwight Williamson for The Logan Banner LOGAN, W.Va. — Logan County needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Seriously, the county has three sites which have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most people cannot name all three of them, so let me relay[Read More…]
Adam Kelly scholarship goes to Sistersville senior
KIDWELL, W.Va. — Tyler Consolidated High School senior Amanda Dawson is this year’s recipient of the Adam R. Kelly Memorial Scholarship Award. The announcement was made May 22 by TCHS Principal Kent Yoho during the Class of 2014 commencement exercises. Dawson is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Bill[Read More…]
Widetrackers car show in Parkersburg
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — It was the love of cars that brought many people out to City Park on Sunday for the Mid-Ohio Valley Widetrackers annual car show. The show, which is held annually on the first Sunday in June, was put on by the antique automobile club in conjunction with[Read More…]
New W.Va. chemical tank law has big holes
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection has a big problem, when it comes to implementing new rules that require above-ground storage tanks to be registered by Oct. 1. The DEP has no idea how many tanks are in our state.[Read More…]
Timing bad for coal kickback indictments
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The federal indictments of former workers at Arch Coal over an alleged kickback scheme involving nearly $2 million from vendors could not have come at a worse time. On Monday, The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release new emissions regulations that will no doubt continue to[Read More…]
Deal has ex-mayor paying Weirton $16,000
WEIRTON, W.Va. — The City of Weirton has agreed to drop embezzlement charges against former Mayor Mark Harris in return for a payment of more than $16,000, court documents say. Harris has written the city a check for $16,273.22 in exchange for three felony counts of embezzlement and one count of[Read More…]
