Vendors, crafters, churches, clubs, organizations, and businesses are invited to set up a booth. WV Press Release Sharing The 35th annual Buffalo Octoberfest will be taking place on Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. This festival is held on the historic five-acre grounds of the Buffalo Shopping[Read More…]
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Media Advisory: Ceremony to celebrate new rural surgery residency program set to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Logan Regional Medical Center
WV Press Release Sharing HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall Community Health Consortium and Logan Regional Medical Center will host a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, celebrating the nation’s first separately accredited rural surgery residency program. WHO: Marshall University Joan C.[Read More…]
Great Rubber Duck Race returns to the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta
West Virginia American Water presenting the event for the fourth consecutive year WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The United Way of Central West Virginia has announced the return of The Great Rubber Duck Race at the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, set to take place next year on Saturday, July[Read More…]
Teeth reach: More WVU-trained dentists staying in West Virginia to practice
WV Press Release Sharing MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University School of Dentistry is upholding the University’s commitment to improve health care for West Virginians by creating opportunities for hands-on experiences that have contributed to an increase in practitioners choosing to stay in the Mountain State following graduation. “Across WVU, we are coming[Read More…]
Secretary Ruby: West Virginia tourism continues to grow ‘across the state and across the seasons’
By Charles Young, WV News CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia’s strategy of prioritizing spending to market and promoting the state as a tourism destination is continuing to pay off. Visitors to West Virginia directly spent more than $5 billion in 2022, an all-time tourism annual spending record, which[Read More…]
Vet tech program aims to combat staff shortages in growing industry
By Erin Cleavenger, The Dominion Post Through a collaborative effort between West Virginia University, West Virginia State University (WVSU) and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA), a new program — VetStart West Virginia — will offer the state’s first four-year veterinary technology program in hopes of combatting a severe[Read More…]
Charlie Reynolds resigns from House Of Delegates, takes job with West Virginia Division of Highways
By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer WHEELING, W.Va. — Delegate Charlie Reynolds has resigned his legislative office to take a job as superintendent of District 6 with the West Virginia Division of Highways. Reynolds — a Republican who represented Marshall County and the 6th Delegate District — informed House Speaker Roger[Read More…]
West Virginians for Affordable Health Care highlights Mental Illness Awareness Week
WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginians for Affordable Health Care (WVAHC) is highlighting National Mental Illness Awareness Week. Thursday was National Depression Screening Day, and WVAHC urges all West Virginians needing help finding the right clinical mental health care to click here. “Like screenings for other illnesses, depression[Read More…]
Meet the WVU researcher training a swarm of robots to explore deep below oceanic ice
By Jack Walker, Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As glaciers across the Arctic and Antarctic continue to melt from rising global temperatures, the waters beneath them contain information crucial to understanding and addressing climate change. That’s why Xi Yu, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia[Read More…]
Opinion: Charleston Area Medical Center is at the center of medical education
By David L. Ramsey President and CEO of Vandalia Health When you come to a hospital in central or southern West Virginia, your providers may include doctors, nurses, radiology techs, ultrasound technicians, pharmacists, phlebotomists and other health care professionals. Many of these folks received their clinical training at CAMC. Each[Read More…]
