Another store has joined the growing list of businesses with announced closings at Charleston Town Center. Victoria’s Secret/Pink will close Sunday, Jan. 17th. Cosmetics retailer Sephora is also closing, along with Talbots, Chico’s and White House/Black Market.
Marshall University is set to open the first commercial composting facility in West Virginia. The last piece of equipment was delivered to the university on Tuesday, and now the facility will be operated by Marshall’s Sustainability Department. Marshall said it will have the daily capacity to compost 8 tons of organic waste such as food … Read more
Across the county, some states are apparently wasting their COVID-19 vaccines. WCHS TV reported they are sitting unused in freezers, or being thrown out because they aren’t being used quickly enough. In West Virginia, Governor Jim Justice says that’s not the case and said every last vaccine is being used. West Virginia could very well … Read more
Four counties moved from orange to red on the state alert map, putting forty-six counties in the red and eight in orange. Clay County is the only county in gold. West Virginia has the lowest person-to-person COVID-19 transmission rate in the country. The state’s Rt value is point-97.
Health officials are reporting over one-thousand new cases of COVID-19, and twelve more people have died. There are over 29-thousand active cases of the virus, and more than 750 patients are hospitalized.
The Boone County Health Department will not receive the COVID-19 vaccine until a clinical monitoring visit from DHHR. The quality assurance and monitoring process comes after more than forty people received an anti-body injection instead of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fifty-three of the state’s fifty-five counties are in the red or orange on the latest COVID-19 alert map. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties were in orange. McDowell and Clay counties are the only counties in the gold. Governor Justice is considering changes to the alert map. Justice is pushing for a January 19th return to … Read more
A memorial for Chuck Yeager is set for this Friday in Charleston. It starts at noon at the Charleston coliseum and Convention Center. The late brigadier general was born and raised in Lincoln County.
Fire broke out for a second time at a vacant home on Homer Street near 7th Avenue. No one was hurt. A fire in December was blamed on squatters, and investigators think squatters are to blame again.
Melody Potter is stepping down as the chairwoman of the West Virginia Republican Party. Her resignation is effetive immeidately. Potter says she needs to take care of her parents. Co-Chairman Roman Stauffer will take over on interim basis.