It was somewhat of a shock on Friday when Coastal Carolina University — in Conway, S.C. — announced that West Virginia University’s next president would be Michael Benson. This happened a day after WVU’s Board of Governors, in a self-imposed cone of silence as it sought a new leader to ...
* Wood County Historical and Preservation Society Secretary Diana Hill has certainly earned her recognition as a West Virginia History Hero. From her work as a librarian at Emerson Elementary School to her dedication as lead docent at Parkersburg’s Phelps-Tavenner House, Hill’s attention ...
It should take no time at all for a proposed bill by the West Virginia Association of School Administrators to find a sponsor. After all, state lawmakers have become acutely, sometimes tragically, aware in recent years of the cracks in our home- and micro-school monitoring through which some ...
Joining the chorus of socio-cultural distractions being pitched in Charleston at the start of the 2025 Regular West Virginia Legislative Session was House Concurrent Resolution 33 — one of the most nonsensical pieces of sycophantry ever to be placed in the legislative records. HCR 33, is ...
Those living in Appalachia have long been accustomed to the idea there are greater risks to our health here than in many other regions. New research from the American College of Surgeons confirms that, while cancer diagnoses and deaths are decreasing in Appalachia, the numbers are still ...
It is the reality of living in this wild, wonderful land we love that it seems almost annually — sometimes more often than that — flooding and mudslides turn our waterways and hills into a deadly landscape. We have almost become accustomed to the news reports — and the calls for ...
