West Virginia’s deadly substance abuse epidemic has become significantly less so lately. According to the National Center for Health Statistics through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a 43.5% decrease in overdose deaths in the state over the past ...
Abandoned oil and gas wells have been a problem in West Virginia for more than a century. Lawmakers did the right thing during the most recent regular session by passing House Bill 3336, which allows operators to fill wells with cement without having to remove the central casing. That might ...
* Four Wood County Technical Center Agricultural Sciences students returned from the West Virginia State FFA Career Development Event having earned first place in their competitions. Sophomore Kloey Miller and freshmen Neil Arnold and Morgan Wicker, who are all in the Intro to Agriculture ...
I am responding to the letter to the editor in last weekend’s (May 10-11) edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel by West Virginia Manufacturers Association President Bill Bissett titled “Another look at carbon capture and storage.” Mr. Bissett’s assertion that carbon capture and ...
Suggest Buying Stadium Bonds Efforts are being made, it was learned today, to induce the city school board to purchase all of the bonds of the high school stadium corporation in order that the stadium may be fully controlled by the school system, with the possibility to returning to 50-cent ...
As West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee winds down his tenure at the helm of the state’s flagship institution of higher learning, it is clear incoming President Michael T. Benson does not intend to try to fill those big shoes — he intends to lead WVU wearing his own. That is ...