By Damian Phillips, The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital has entered into an artwork collaboration with AM Racing Team driver Christian Rose. During the ARCA Menards Series Race at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway on Sept. 19, Rose’s No. 32 Ford Mustang will feature a livery designed[Read More…]
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Lincoln-signed statehood document sold at auction to WV buyer
By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginian was the successful bidder in last week’s online auction of an 1861 document signed by President Abraham Lincoln authorizing a Wheeling man to buy “arms and munitions of war” to protect citizens loyal to the federal government from Confederate soldiers. A[Read More…]
New manufacturing facility announced for Wood County
West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice and officials of Japan-based SOMAR, on June 3, announced that SOMAR will establish a facility to manufacture an epoxy resin product used in the automotive sector. The new facility will be located in Wood County within the Polymer Alliance Zone Industrial[Read More…]
U.S. Sen. Manchin to join bipartisan Senate delegation to Normandy for 80th anniversary of D-Day
West Virginia Press Association WASHINGTON, DC — On June 3, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, announced he will join the bipartisan Senate delegation traveling to Normandy, France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II. “We[Read More…]
W.Va. National Guard’s Ridge Healer trains U.K. special operations medical teams for irregular warfare, austere medicine
West Virginia Press Association WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. – Nestled in a valley in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern West Virginia sits an out-of-use mining operations building that had become the temporary, clandestine medical facility for a team of British special operations forces medics and doctors. As the rain poured down,[Read More…]
Health systems, infectious disease specialists prepare West Virginia hospitals for potential disease outbreaks
By Daisy Gibbons, The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As emerging unforeseen viruses threaten public health, specialists and information networks in hospitals throughout West Virginia are ensuring that staff and health departments are up-to-date and prepared when outbreaks do occur. Dr. Michael Stevens, system health care epidemiologist and associate chief[Read More…]
WV leaders loud on Trump but quiet on flood resiliency, coal community priorities
By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As Jenkins, Kentucky, flooded in July 2022, Mayor Todd DePriest found himself assuming the role of a scrambled case worker. “We were trying to put lists together of who needed, what, where and when,” DePriest said. He recalled the response of his[Read More…]
WVU researchers to reintroduce elk populations to West Virginia
By Madison Ely, The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU experts are working to promote biodiversity across the state through the reintroduction of elk in West Virginia. Wildlife and fisheries professor Amy Welsh and graduate student Adam Cook are heading the project in collaboration with the West Virginia Division of[Read More…]
Editorial: Wing 2 Wing: Music education is important
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Because of partners such as the Save the Music and Wing 2 Wing foundations, every middle school in West Virginia will have received free musical instruments by 2027. Residents who grew up during an era where most middle and even some elementary schools found ways[Read More…]
Editorial: Foster Care
Elizabeth Hardy Has Tough Task Ahead The Inter-Mountain Gov. Jim Justice didn’t do Pamela Woodman-Kaehler any favors when he brushed off a reporter’s questions about the reason for her resignation as the first ombudsman of the state’s foster care system. When asked whether Woodman-Kaehler was leaving because of a problem[Read More…]