News Staff The West Virginia Board of Education canceled a special meeting that had been scheduled yestereday. The meeting had been scheduled to address the counties that were out of compliance with the requirement to offer an in-person learning. All 55 counties have resumed classes in person so the meeting wasn’t necessary. The West Virginia Board of … Read more
Groundhog Day is coming up next week, but the pandemic won’t allow for an official celebration in West Virginia. The state’s famous groundhog, French Creek Freddie, will still offer a prediction on social media, but the DNR said its annual West Virginia Groundhog Day celebration at the Wildlife Center in Upshur County has been canceled. … Read more
Former Charleston mayor Danny Jones is downsizing. Jones served four terms as the mayor of the capital city, and announced on his Facebook page that he’s trading in his five-bedroom, seven bath, 7,355-square-foot South Hills home for a downtown apartment. Jones said he will moving to Atlas apartments on Quarrier Street, which is the same … Read more
The West Virginia Department of Education has named its Teacher of the Year for 2021. Erin Anderson has been a teacher for 20 years and currently teaches at Tennerton Elementary School in Upshur County. As part of her award, she gets the use of a 2021 Toyota RAV4 for a year and more than $13,000 … Read more
Former Charleston mayor Danny Jones is downsizing. He posted on his Facebook page that he is moving out of his seven-thousand-square-foot South Hills home and is moving into at downtown apartment that is closer to his Quarrier Street BBQ stand.
More than forty-thousand people have pre-registered for the COVID-19 vaccine with state’s new online registration system. There is still an issue with telephone registration. Callers are getting a message that the line is out and won’t be available until February. Verizon is working on the issue.
West Virginia COVID-19 numbers are showing signs of improvement. The gap between recovered patients and actives cases is widening. There are more than five-hundred new cases of the virus, and the number of active cases is below twenty-five-thousand. Four more people have died.
West Virginia health officials are touting a 106-perecent success rate in administering the COVID-19 vaccine. The state is achieving that rate by getting more doses out of each vial. Health workers are often able to get six doses out of a five-dose Pfizer vaccine vial. And eleven doses out of a ten-dose Moderna vial.
Work is underway to build a 115-megawatt windfarm along the Grant-Mineral county line. Clearway Energy is spending more than 200-million dollars on the project that they hope to have up and running by the end of the year. There are more than 200 construction workers on the project that will include nearly two-dozen turbines.
A former doctor at the VA Medical Center in Beckley will spend 25-years in prison. Fifty-two-year-old Jonathan Yates is accused of sexually abusing veterans under his care.