By Esteban Fernandez For Times West Virginian Fairmont — The City of Fairmont is biting its nails over its $10 million Congressional spending request for its $108 million wastewater treatment facility project. “Ten million dollars in the scheme of $108 million may not seem like a significant chunk, but for a congressionally directed spending appropriation, $10 million is a very significant ask,” City Manager Travis Blosser said. “There aren’t a lot of congressionally directed spending appropriations in the last two...

By Evan Bevins For The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Belpre – The Relay for Life of Washington County returns to Civitan Park in Belpre Saturday with the theme “Carnival for a Cure.” In addition to the usual Survivor and Caregiver Dinner, music, auction and luminaria, the event will include some carnival touches like funhouse mirrors in the Survivor Tent, face-painting, balloon animals and a dilly dunker featuring some physicians from Marietta Memorial Hospital, said Rhonda Blair, chairwoman of the event....

By Steven Allen Adams For The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who easily secured the confidence of registered Republicans in West Virginia to seek a third six-year term, called for unity among West Virginia Republicans heading into the November general elections. During a press call with West Virginia reporters Thursday morning, Capito discussed the recent primary election, advocating for party unity following a period of negative campaigning and internal friction up and down the...

By Dylan Vidovich For HDMedia The Hatfields and McCoys Historical Society is bringing a free traveling exhibit — opening Friday — to Logan and Mingo counties this month. A wreath-laying ceremony and scholarship announcement is also planned at the Hatfield Family Cemetery on Memorial Day. The nonprofit organization the West Virginia Humanities Council is sponsoring “American Blood Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys,” which traces the history of the famous feud, while “Born of Rebellion” spans more than a century of Appalachian history,...

By Charles Owens For Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Work should be getting underway soon on a number of planned additions to city park in Bluefield. The Bluefield Board of Directors approved bids Tuesday for several of those projects, including a new turf for the splash pad and an expanded walking trail that will encompass much of the park’s interior. A $31,414 bid was awarded to Top Dog Concrete for the splash pad concrete project, and a $63,301.80 bid was...

By Abby Ayes For The Parthenon The Choice to Stay In West Virginia, the question isn’t just why people leave, it’s why some never do. For every student packing up their apartment in Huntington or Morgantown with plans to start somewhere new, there’s someone else choosing to stay, not because they have to, but because they want to. And that choice, in a state so often defined by outmigration, says just as much about West Virginia as the decision to...

By Joselyn King For The Intelligencer Wheeling – Crittenton Services in Wheeling is building room to house more pregnant teens and young women with babies. On Thursday, ground was broken for the construction of two cottage-style homes near Crittenton’s main office in Elm Grove. The first sits on Wade Avenue above Crittenton’s main building, while the second will be nearby on Empowerment Lane behind Crittenton’s main building. “Each is an eight bedroom style home to facilitate single parenting and single...

By Esteban Fernandez For Times West Virginian Fairmont — White Hall resident Vicki DeWitt saw her bill from Hope Gas double. The culprit was the weather normalization adjustment fee Hope Gas began to pilot last year. However, what galls DeWitt is Hope Gas already seems to have a program that takes weather fluctuations into account. The utility company offers a budget payment plan, which calculates a monthly price based on either 12 months of usage history or estimated usage at...

By Benjamin Powell For The Dominion Post Morgantown — What began as a retirement plan has grown into one of West Virginia’s most recognized small businesses. Andrew Pintus III, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former sheriff’s deputy, is the owner of Blue Mountain K-9 in Morgantown, recently named West Virginia’s Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. “I originally started this as kind of a retirement plan,” Pintus said. “But it took off a...

By Rick Steelhammer For HDMedia At exactly 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, David Adkins, a precinct commissioner for primary election voting at Ruthlawn Elementary in South Charleston, stepped outside the school building and yelled to no one, “Polls are open!” Adkins said a vocal announcement that polls are open at 6:30 a.m., and closed at 7:30 p.m., is required on every election day, at each precinct. “You’ve got to yell it,” he said. While Tim Keffer of South Charleston might not...