By FRED PACE The Intelligencer/Wheeling News Journal WHEELING, W.Va. — Jamboree In The Hills will return intact. Changes announced earlier this week concerning the country music show, owned by Live Nation, in Belmont County each July brought a wave of complaints from diehard fans of the country music festival. As[Read More…]
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WV State Farm museum Christmas lights on through Dec. 18
By BETH SERGENT Point Pleasant Register POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Today marks the return of a yuletide tradition in Mason County when the West Virginia State Farm Museum’s Christmas Light Display returns. The show is from 6-9 p.m. and will run nightly today through Dec. 18 at the museum just north of[Read More…]
Local residents look for answers to the Eastern Panhandle’s drug epidemic
Editor’s note: The following is the first part in a series tackling the heroin epidemic sweeping the nation, state and Eastern Panhandle. Part one focuses upon the heroin epidemic itself and the questions local residents have regarding how the problem will come to an end. By JEFF McCOY The Journal[Read More…]
Home before the holidays: Students work to house flood survivors
By SARAH PLUMMER The Register-Herald OAK HILL, W.Va. — Santa’s elves aren’t the only people hard at work. Students at Fayette Institute of Technology are building a miniature house to provide warmth and shelter for a family displaced by the June 23 flood. Dr. Kathy D’Antoni, state assistant superintendent of[Read More…]
Op-Ed: Hospice, the best-kept secret in US healthcare
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail: By Malene Davis On Friday, West Virginians for Affordable Health Care will host a reception and fundraiser, where guests will learn more about the many ways WVAHC advocates for greater access to health care for all Mountaineers. As a West Virginia native, I know how many[Read More…]
WVU forced 34 turnovers in win over Western Carolina
By JUSTIN JACKSON The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Elijah Macon decided to use his towel and wrap it around his forehead in the style of a Samurai warrior. Daxter Miles Jr. went with the I-just-got-out-of-the-shower look. “He doesn’t know how to do it right,” joked WVU men’s basketball forward[Read More…]
Outrage in the Belmont County Hills: Jamboree fans, commissioner express concern
By SHELLEY HANSON and ROBERT A. DEFRANK For The Intelligencer MORRISTOWN, Ohio — When Raymond Duane learned his beloved Jamboree In The Hills was going to undergo some major changes next year, he got so mad he started a Facebook page: “Boycott Jambo Country.” In a matter of days, the page has[Read More…]
10 things to know: Thursday, Dec. 8
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. WHO’S FORMING UNLIKELY POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP An apparent rapport is brewing between Obama and[Read More…]
Community remembers attacks on Pearl Harbor 75 years later
By KELSIE LEROSE Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Today marks 75 years since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and many across the nation will honor all lives lost Dec. 7, 1941. The USS West Virginia was a part of the United States fleet that was attacked that day. According to usswestvirginia.org,[Read More…]
Amid corruption probes, WV DOH targets workers with second jobs
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Transportation is reining in its highway engineers and cracking down on employees who have second jobs with private firms that pose a conflict of interest. The measures come amid a federal corruption probe that already has snared[Read More…]