Students at the University of Charleston used the Labor Day weekend to wrap up work on the Labor of Love Project. UC’s traditional tasks involved trash pickup, landscaping and visiting nursing homes, but the pandemic changed that. Students spent time painting parts of a new mural, making hundreds of masks for people who need them, … Read more
A COVID-19 outbreak that killed five people at a Monroe County nursing home has stabilized, although several residents and staff members are still infected. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported that the Springfield Center in Lindside began testing all residents and staff August 18th and the number of positive cases peaked on Aug. 30 with 67 … Read more
Kanawha County schools have had a total of nine coronavirus cases reported so far at eight schools. The school system’s website said that the positive cases are at two elementary schools, two middle schools, a high school and a career technical center. Sissonville High School had one case confirmed last week. All schools remain open.
State Adjutant General Jim Hoyer is organizing a task force from the National Guard at the state Bureau of Public Health to prepare for a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the months ahead. No one knows when a vaccine will be available. Predictions have ranged from October to the end of the year, to sometime next … Read more
An 86-year-old Kanawha County woman has died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 247. There are close to 140 new cases of the virus, for a total of over 27-hundred active cases. The state’s positive test rate is almost three-point-eight-percent.
All undergraduate classes at WVU will be online through September 25th in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases on the Morgantown campus. Nearly thirty students are being placed on immediate interim suspension for violations involving large parties.
School starts today, and nine counties in West Virginia will hold online classes only. Nine counties are in the orange or the red, including; Kanawha, Putnam, Mingo, Monroe, Fayette, Logan and Wayne counties. Monongalia County is the only county in the red.
Several members at the King’s River Worship Center in St. Albans have tested positive for COVID-19. The church is moving from in-person to online, and is deep cleaning the facility.
One person is under arrest and another person is on the run after a police pursuit that started near the Swans Lane area of St. Albans.
A man is in critical condition after a canoeing accident at Summit Lake. A man and child were rescued from the water. The child is expected to be okay.