BECKLEY, W.Va. — School maintenance crews are working around the clock to clean up after a water supply line failed and flooded Fayetteville Elementary Saturday night, confirmed Superintendent Terry George. School has been canceled Tuesday while the clean-up continues. George said the failed line ran to a third floor water fountain[Read More…]
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Morgantown pool goes to the dogs, 188 of them
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Animal Friends and the Morgantown Utility Board put together the festivities that had the pool full of canines and their human companions for six hours. Kelley Owen, Veterinarian and board member of Animal Friends of North Central West Virginia, was at the pool and enjoyed seeing so[Read More…]
Thousands of kids in three flood counties get shoes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thousands of West Virginia students took home new shoes Thursday. More than 4,400 pairs of shoes were donated by Dominion Transmission employees and distributed to 11 schools across Kanawha, Nicholas and Clay counties in response to damage sustained by those communities in the June 23 floods… For a[Read More…]
A championship smile at the Tucker County Fair
PARSONS, W.Va. — A county fair is Americana at its best. It embodies all the goodness of rural America and the rural American way of life – the moral fabric of farming, the homespun goodness of cooking, the wholesome exercise of gardening and, most importantly, weaves into its basket a[Read More…]
Fairmont boxing program for Parkinson’s patients
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Rock Steady Boxing of North Central West Virginia is helping community members fight back against Parkinson’s disease while having fun. Co-owner of the North Central West Virginia affiliate of the Rock Steady Boxing, James Salai, said a main purpose of the program is give these people a[Read More…]
Huntington man finds creek cleanup ‘personal’
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Mark Connelly and his wife, Karen Hoth, want to do whatever they can for the health of Fourpole Creek in Huntington. “We were victims of the July flooding along Fourpole Creek at our property at Enslow Park,” Connelly said. “The health of this creek is personal to[Read More…]
Women turn out for WVU’s ‘Football 101’
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Milan Puskar Stadium was full of women Aug. 21 for the fifth annual Football 101 program with members of the WVU football team. The participants talked with the WVU coaching staff, took pictures with their favorite players, learned the rules and even ran through basic plays with[Read More…]
WV State majorettes help welcome new students
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Parkersburg preps for race day
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Preparations for the Parkersburg News and Sentinel Races are underway. Chip Allman, race director, said this year’s half marathon will miss last year’s winners, Buze Diriba, of Ethiopia, and Kimutai Cheruiyot, Kenya. Allman said Cheruiyot, last year’s overall winner of the half marathon, was not able to[Read More…]
Ceremony held in Elkins for 23 new citizens
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