The Kanawha County Commission has approved the application for a new development in Elkview. The project, known as “Elkview Commons,” will result in developing 44 acres into retail and commercial space. The development will be located off Frame Road near the Elkview exit of Interstate 79. The project will be the first substantial private investment … Read more
Cabell County Schools will have a staggered re-entry plan for its first week of classes, based on the student’s last name. The county school system also said it is adopting the state’s color-coded metrics for re-entry. If the county’s code would ever move to orange during the week, proper steps would be taken, including canceling … Read more
A Toyota manufacturing plant in West Virginia is installing 6 acres of solar panels, which officials say will make it the largest solar array in the state. The Herald-Dispatch reports the project at the Buffalo plant will produce 2.6 megawatts of solar-generated energy. The solar array is one part of a plan to reduce the … Read more
A color-coding system will be used for schools to decide whether each county will be allowed to restart in-person classes. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources developed the system, which assigns each county a color — green, yellow, orange or red — based on the seven-day average of new daily cases per … Read more
Vice-President Mike Pence will be at the Greenbrier today for a fundraiser. Governor Justice says he doesn’t know much about it, but he doesn’t think the crowd will violate state guidelines limiting gatherings to twenty-five people. Justice does plan to greet the Vice-President. It costs 25-thousand-dollars-per-person to attend.
Senator Joe Manchin is urging Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to maintain postal services. Manchin toured postal facilities around the state on Friday, and says DeJoy won’t talk to senators or congressman. The Postal Service has warned 46 states and Washington, D.C. that it cannot guarantee election officials will receive absentee ballots on time as the … Read more
A judge has approved a plan for Thomas Health to exit Chapter-11 bankruptcy protection. The plan includes terms that provide for discounted refunding of about $145 million in bond debt. Financing is expected to be complete by mid-September. Thomas Health serves 275-thousand patients annually in Kanawha County.
Four more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia, raising the state’s death toll to 157. There are almost two-thousand active cases of the virus, and 135 people are in the hospital. The infection rate is around two-point-four-percent.
The West Virginia Department of Education posted a map that shows the locations where kids can connect to Wi-Fi when school resumes. The six-million-dollar Kids Connect initiative will be completed when classes begin on September 8th. The project will create over one-thousand wireless access points across the state.
Logan County is the only county in the state currently in the red. The county has had over eighty new cases of COVID-19 in the past week. Grant and Mingo counties are in the orange, and will only be allowed to start school with remote learning.