Six students win four-year scholarships of up to $18,000 per year CHARLESTON, W.Va. – EQT Foundation, the philanthropic arm of EQT Corporation, has announced the 2017 EQT Students of Excellence Scholarship recipients. The 65 accomplished students come from both large and small schools across West Virginia. As an integrated energy company with an[Read More…]
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Tamarack prepared for holidays with thousands of W.Va.-made items
By Jim Ross The State Journal of West Virginia BECKLEY, W.Va. — Need a statue of a coal miner made from coal? Need a handmade broom? A battery-powered drill made of wood? How about a metal statue of deer, the kind that marks the entrance to Tamarack? Or the actual deer[Read More…]
Ohio family sues over drilling fluid spill near home in Glencoe
GLANCE, Ohio — Scarcely more than 1-month-old on Oct. 19, tiny Amelia Gantzer couldn’t have been ready for pipeline contractors to surround her home with noisy trucks, machines and hoses for about a month to clean up a drilling fluid spill. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokesman James Lee said officials[Read More…]
WVU student taps University resources to build beekeeping business into success
Many West Virginia University students have busy lives, balancing their studies, social activities and family obligations. However, for one student, in addition to all that, there’s 960,000 employees dependent on him to maintain maximum efficiency in his business. The employees? Well, they’re honeybees, and not only is his profit margin[Read More…]
Ralph Baxter: Opioids impacting WV Workforce in Ohio Valley
By Joselyn King The Intelligencer of Wheeling WHEELING, W.Va. — Democrat U.S. House candidate Ralph Baxter said he brought Orrick Global Operations Center to Wheeling in 2002 after seeing labor data showing West Virginia’s workforce was among the most dependable in the nation, with many workers seldom missing a day of[Read More…]
Blankenship launches WV Senate campaign with advertising plug in his defense
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship launched his campaign to win the Republican nomination for the Senate seat in the 2018 mid-term election on Thursday with an ad criticizing the investigation of the Upper Big Branch disaster. Blankenship, 67, was released from a[Read More…]
Marshall President Gilbert tours West Virginia high schools
By CAROLINE KIMBRO The Parthenon HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University President Jerry Gilbert’s venture to visit and speak with students from 16 high schools in seven West Virginia counties began Wednesday and will conclude Dec. 7. Former Marshall football coach Bob Pruett will join Gilbert on “The Rest of Your[Read More…]
WV panel to develop plan to combat opioid epidemic
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia public health officials are working with Johns Hopkins University professors to develop a plan to address the state’s opioid epidemic. Last year, 884 West Virginians died after overdosing on drugs, the highest overdose fatality rate in the nation. Seven of[Read More…]
DuPont named as defendant in lawsuit over IEI Plastics fire in Parkersburg, WV
By JEFFREY SAULTON The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — DuPont has been named as one of the defendants in the fourth class-action lawsuit filed over the Oct. 21-29 fire at the Intercontinental Export-Import Plastics warehouse on Camden Avenue in Parkersburg. Filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the[Read More…]
Nearly 50 argue for Green Bank Observatory future at NFS hearing
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald GREEN BANK, W.Va. — As part of the process to consider changes to the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), the National Science Foundation (NSF) listened to comments from nearly 50 people on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) which was released in early November. That document outlines[Read More…]
