COVID-19 testing is now being done for residents of Charleston homeless shelters. West Virginia Health Right, in collaboration with Charleston Area Medical Center’s Ryan White Program, will offer ongoing tests for any new residents at its main clinic at 1540 Washington St. East. Tests also will be offered June 1 at Health Right’s Covenant House … Read more
Kanawha County has had another COVID-19-related death, bringing county’s death total to 14. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department added that the county had a total of 196 positive virus cases Thursday morning. Of those, 99 are active and 97 are closed.
Contact tracing is essential in preventing another coronavirus outbreak and West Virginia University is jumping in to help train people for the process. WVU is teaching an online class in collaboration with the state Department of Health and Human Resources and the National Guard. WVU School of Public Health professor Dr. Chris Martin is the … Read more
Several NFL teams are eyeing the Greenbrier resort as a potential training facility if their normal sites can’t by open in time for training camp. The resort has previously hosted training camps for New Orleans Saints and the Houston Texans. The NFL continues to plan for a regular season that will start September 10th.
The Summers County school system is under scrutiny. The State School Superintendent’s Office is calling for a special circumstance review because of invoice inconsistencies. Last month the school board voted to search for a new superintendent, and chose not to renew Superintendent Kimberly Rhodes’ contract.
The West Virginia Association of Fairs and Festivals says many events are up in the air because of COVID-19, including the State Fair of West Virginia. Organizers are looking at a mid-June time frame to decide if the event will go on. The State Fair has a nearly 14-million-dollar impact on the West Virginia economy.
Governor Justice is asking businesses that are still closed to be patient as the state works to make sure reopening is safe for both customers and employees. Justice says tanning salons will be able to reopen Thursday, May 21st.
The YMCA of Kanawha Valley’s Montgomery location is closing permanently. The organization says the facility is “financially unviable,” and was scheduled to close at the end of June, but the coronavirus pandemic expedited the process. The “Y” has two other locations in Charleston and Cross Lanes.
Two men at the Rolling Meadow Village housing complex in Ripley are accused of sexually abusing at least five children at the complex ranging in age from 3-to-14-years-old, and authorities think there could be more.
A 70-year-old man from Kanawha County is the most recent COVID-19 death in West Virginia, bringing the death toll to 59. There are six new positive cases of the virus, for a total of over 14-hundred statewide. The positive test rate is just over two-percent.