WASHINGTON –The U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week Virtual Summit event schedule is set. This annual event, happening September 13-15, 2021, honors the nation’s 31 million small businesses for their perseverance, ingenuity, triumphs, and creativity.SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced National Small Business Week in a news release last month. The free, three-day conference[Read More…]
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Bells to ring honoring Rosie the Riveters around the country and the world on Labor Day Weekend
WV Press Release Sharing MORGANTOWN, W.VA.- Local residents will gather at the Morgantown Fire Station on High Street at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 6th, Labor Day to recognize and give thanks for the contributions of women who supported the World War II effort as “Rosie the Riveters.” They will[Read More…]
Media Advisory: WVUToday offering 9/11 Media Kit to West Virginia newspapers, media
WVUToday MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, WVUToday is offering West Virginia newspapers a media kit with resources to assist reporters working on 9/11 memorial coverage. April Kaull, executive director of communications for University Relationsat WVU, made the announcement today. Access media kit here:[Read More…]
NRGRDA using state of the art technology to market region’s economic development sites
WV Press Release Sharing BECKLEY, W.Va. – The New River Gorge Regional Development Authority (NRGRDA) is leading the way in its use of technology to help interested companies and real estate developers locate prime sites for community and economic development. Jina Belcher, executive director, said NRGRDA is successfully using Geographic[Read More…]
West Virginia Senator Randy Smith seeks special session for legislation to prohibit COVID vaccine mandates
By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – State Sen. Randy Smith has asked Gov. Jim Justice to call a special session of the Legislature in order to pass a bill to prohibit a statewide vaccine mandate. Smith, R-Tucker, sent the letter on Friday, with a copy to Senate President[Read More…]
Milton, W.Va., gets almost $1 million in funds to replace waterline
By McKenna Horsley, The Herald Dispatch MILTON, W.Va. — Funding for a critical water project is coming to the city of Milton. After approval from the Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council, Milton is set to receive $970,000 in critical need grant funds to replace about three miles of waterline along[Read More…]
Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia offers cautionary tale about decline of unions upon centennial
By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In his 27 years as an underground coal miner in West Virginia, Gary Hairston noticed that it took some backup to breathe easier. “There was a lot better protection in a union mine,” Hairston recalled. “The union backs you.” Hairston found that[Read More…]
Parkersburg, W.Va., renames street in honor of world champion wrestler Amos
By Evan Bevins, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG — After earning gold and bronze medals wrestling at the Junior World Championships in Russia, Parkersburg South High School graduate Braxton Amos returned to his hometown and received … a blue street sign. The latest honor for the freshman University of[Read More…]
West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission admonishes magistrates for their part in ‘Santa-Gate’
By Steven Allen Adams, The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission admonished two former Pleasants County magistrates Monday for their part in an effort to dismiss serious criminal charges in exchange for donations to a Christmas gift program. Former Pleasants County magistrates Randy Nutter and Lisa[Read More…]
There was a code of silence: Re-release of oral histories as book marks centennial of pivotal Battle of Blair Mountain
BY ASHTON MARRA 100 Days in Appalachia Fifty years ago, Anne Lawrence found herself travelling from her college classrooms on the campus of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania south to the coalfields of Central Appalachia. Then a junior studying history and sociology, the Massachusetts native was hired by Miners for Democracy[Read More…]
