By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — During her 15 years as executive director of the League of Women Voters from 2000 to 2015, Nancy Tate focused on fighting voter suppression through gerrymandering or overly restrictive voter ID laws — only to see entirely new ways to manipulate elections emerge in 2016. “Clearly, these […]
By VANESSA McGUIGAN The Shepherdstown Chronicle SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Shepherdstown Area Independent Living (SAIL) welcomed Chris Kinsella from the Jefferson County League of Women Voters and Nikki Painter, Chief Deputy Clerk, Voter and Elections of Jefferson County to their monthly brown bag lunch event to discuss voting and demonstrate a new electronic voting machine. Although […]
By RACHEL HAWKINS The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — After more than a year of work, the Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is ready to roll out new endeavors to bring more tourism to the area. Greater Morgantown CVB Executive Director Susan Riddle spent the last few months speaking at council meetings for local municipalities in Monongalia and Preston counties, sharing the CVB’s […]
Mountain Messenger LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The Greenbrier County Convention and Visitors Bureau has been recognized with an international Gold MarCom award for its website. The site was developed in partnership with its Agency of Record, Fahlgren Mortine, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and with offices in Charleston, WV. “Our GreenbrierWV.com website is a critical tool for […]
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — The scariest threat facing America right now? Is it nuclear war, or illegal immigration, or global warming, or possible election tampering by a foreign power? No, according to U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who held a “community town hall” meeting at the Country Inn in Berkeley […]
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There are those who think the state-sanctioned West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust (WVJIT) venture capital fund is all one big boondoggle. Pat Bond, longtime state businessman and a member of the Investment Trust’s board of directors, is not one of them. “You miss all the shots […]
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald HINTON, W.Va. — A Pullman train car was once a symbol of luxury, and for four days this October that luxury was returned to Hinton. On a cold, gray Sunday afternoon, as the Hinton Railroad Days neared completion for 2017 and passengers disembarked to explore the old C&O Railroad city, the owners of […]
Staff report Charleston Gazette-Mail WINFIELD, W.Va. — A Winfield Middle School teacher was surprised with a $25,000 award at a school assembly this morning. Erika Klose, a science teacher at the school, received the Milken Educator Award. The award “not only aims to reward great teachers, but to celebrate, elevate and activate those innovators who […]
By CARTER WALKER Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Winter in Fairmont this year is shaping up to be colder with more snow than recent years. Meteorologists at AccuWeather said temperatures are expected to be below average by a degree, and snowfall is expected to be above average. Average yearly snowfall for Morgantown, which is […]
By WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — While nearly 400 pumpkins flew off the roof of West Virginia University’s Engineering Sciences Building one—from team no. 102A from the Greater Beckley Christian School in Prosperity —not only survived the 11-story drop but landed closest to the target. The winning pumpkin landed two-feet, four-inches from the target, […]
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