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State signs $9.8M contract with novice education savings account vendor to oversee Hope Scholarship
A board overseeing the Hope Scholarship has selected a vendor to run the growing program, opting to award the contract to a company with very limited state-level experience running managing education savings accounts.
After 39 years, Bluegrass Festival returns to Moorefield
It has been 39 years since a bluegrass festival was last held in the Eastern Branch of West Virginia. The 1985 flood caused extensive damage to certain areas, leading to the absence of the festival for more than three decades. Inspired by memories of the festival from previous years, the...
This 1993 Time Capsule Proves How Much The World Has Changed
Students of Shenandoah University in Virginia opened a box assembled 25 years ago, featuring a collection of items from the past. Among the items are cassette tapes, vinyl records, comic books, yearbooks, bubble pacifiers, handwritten poems, and old newspapers. It proved how advanced the world has grown to be with...
Tragic house fire spurs community support for Winchester mail carrier
A GoFundMe campaign and item collection drive have been launched to support Corey Lyons Marsden, a well-known letter carrier in Winchester, following a devastating house fire on July 20. The fire destroyed the Marsden family home in Woburn, leaving Corey, a single mother of two daughters, ages 10 and 9,...
Continuing Education Experiences at Laurel River Club BB
Jenningston, WV (WVDN) –Marsha Waybright began the Laurel River Club B&B with a vision in mind – to educate visitors on a wide variety of topics, as well as provide a place to relax and unwind. Since West Virginia’s early beginnings, agriculture has played an important role in its development, and Waybright provides programs from her Laurel Fork Farm to […] The post Continuing Education Experiences at Laurel River Club B&B appeared first on West Virginia Daily News.
Free Black Lung Screenings for Coal Miners in North Central West Virginia
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is bringing a mobile testing unit to North Central West Virginia this week to offer free black lung screenings to current and former coal miners. Screenings will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 23-25 at Mylan Park...
Taunton team wins national title
LEESBURG, Va.— Last month, Taunton High softball took home its fourth straight state title. Now a Taunton club team has brought home a national title. The Mass Dynamites 14U team (18-8-2) captured the USA Softball Class-B Eastern 14-Under Fast Pitch National Championship Sunday, beating the Olney (Md.) Cougars Pomeroy 13U, 5-4, in the...
State Senator Corderman – Hagerstown “in crisis and under seige”
HAGERSTOWN – In a 24 July 2024 letter to Mayor Martinez and Council, Paul Corderman pens a two page letter with 8 action points fueled by last week’s homicide. Corderman stated “that event once again demonstrated a lack of urgency and prioritization from City Hall.” Read the full letter here!
Wrestler Aaron Brooks trying to stay even-keeled at Olympics
Hagerstown wrestler Aaron Brooks is set to fulfill a lifelong dream, competing on the biggest stage imaginable against the best in the world in Paris. There are significant medals at stake: gold, silver and bronze. These are the Olympic Games, where legends are born. ...
Deal Digest: Connoisseur Media Sells In Frederick.
Frederick, MD — Local Daily Media has filed a $4.275 million deal to buy “Free Country 99.9” WFRE and “Free Talk 930” WFMD from Connoisseur Media. Local Daily Media already owns four stations in Virginia and North Carolina, as well as the online newspapers Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily and Port City Daily, and the local e-commerce platform 30 Off Local. Once the sale closes, Connoisseur Media will still own stations in two markets in the New York suburbs of Long Island, NY and Danbury, CT.
West Virginia is asking the US Supreme Court to consider transgender surgery Medicaid coverage case
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that found the state’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Thursday. In April, the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court...
PSC to hold evidentiary and public comment hearings August 12 for APCo Expanded Net Energy Cost case
CHARLESTON, WV (WVDN) – The Public Service Commission of West Virginia has scheduled August 12 as the date for the evidentiary hearing and public comment hearing for Appalachian Power Company and Wheeling Power Company’s Expanded Net Energy Cost case. The companies have requested an additional $20.4 million in annual revenue. The evidentiary hearing in this case […] The post PSC to hold evidentiary and public comment hearings August 12 for APCo Expanded Net Energy Cost case appeared first on West Virginia Daily News.
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