Editor’s Note: This is the fifth part of a seven-part series on West Virginia University’s efforts to address the opioid crisis in the state. The speakers in this series shared the work and progress in their respective fields and departments at an academic media day held by WVU on[Read More…]
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WV Parks invite people to choose hikes over long lines on Black Friday
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail As an alternative to inching toward checkout lines amid hordes of shoppers on Black Friday, two West Virginia state parks and the New River Gorge National River are offering free, guided “Opt Outside” hikes to scenic locales in natural settings. Opt Outside hikes began in[Read More…]
Oglebay Good Zoo offers new reindeer exhibit encounter in Ohio County
By SCOTT McCLOSKEY The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Oglebay Park’s Good Zoo has built a brand new reindeer exhibit just in time for the Christmas holiday. To enjoy the exhibit — referred to as “Santa’s Reindeer Training School” by zoo officials — patrons have the option of[Read More…]
West Virginia ski season ready to begin
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Joe Stevens has just about given up trying to predict what the weather will be for West Virginia’s annual ski season. “It’s weather,” the spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association said. “We’re going to weather the weather, whatever the[Read More…]
Be safe out there: AAA warns of holiday parking lot accidents
Staff report The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — AAA reminds shoppers to keep a watchful eye out for vehicles and pedestrians this holiday season. With Thanksgiving marking the official start of the holiday shopping season, the number of shoppers visiting stores will increase dramatically. Officials say vehicle and[Read More…]
Japanese bride returns to Beckley for Thanksgiving
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Michiko Ohira Crysel celebrated her first Thanksgiving in West Virginia, after coming to the United States as a war bride in 1959. She’s in West Virginia again to share the holiday with friends who welcomed her when she started her journey as[Read More…]
WVU building addiction studies minor
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part of a seven-part series on West Virginia University’s efforts to address the opioid crisis in the state. The speakers in this series shared the work and progress in their respective fields and departments at an academic media day held by WVU on Nov.[Read More…]
Hundreds helped in time for Thanksgiving
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Local generosity was demonstrated Wednesday when a local church and the Salvation Army came together and distributed 250 Thanksgiving dinners to local families in need. Orderly lines of grocery bags waited along with stacks of turkeys, pies, rolls and bottles of[Read More…]
Think before you fry: Be smart to stay safe with holiday cooking
By JOSHUA QUALLS The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — House fires rage across the nation each Thanksgiving about four times as often as any other day of the year, according to the National Fire Protection Association. The second-leading day? The one right before Thanksgiving. Fire safety experts say it doesn’t have to[Read More…]
Commissioner of Highways and Secretary of Transportation talks upcoming road projects
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W. Va. — West Virginia Commissioner of Highways and Secretary of Transportation Thomas J. Smith told Beckley Rotarians Tuesday over the span of Gov. Jim Justice’s four-year term, around 40 road projects will be completed within Road to Prosperity, the centerpiece of Justice’s economic[Read More…]
