New diversified agriculture program coordinator starts at WVU Parkersburg

Dr. Rosa Guedes is WVU Parkersburg’s new diversified agriculture program coordinator. The new program will begin in the spring of 2013. However, Guedes began developing curriculum for the program in August. The new program is intended to train students in skills to meet the demand for locally grown food. The produce grown in the program […]

49 years and counting, Cass Scenic Railroad fired up for its golden anniversary in 2013

The world’s foremost roster of working Shay locomotives is faithfully chugging toward a golden anniversary in 2013. The train line, originally built in 1901, hauled timber to the mill in the town of Cass for almost 60 years. The rail-haul logging operation and bandsaw mill ceased operations on July 1, 1960. Over the course of three years that followed, […]

Autism Society board to meet at Marshall University this weekend

The Autism Society of America has selected the West Virginia Autism Training Center and Marshall University’s Huntington campus as the site for its fall board of directors meeting, which will take place Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27. “The board of directors is honored to convene this weekend at Marshall University, an institution highly […]

Spilman Attorney Appointed to DTCWV Board of Governors

The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) announced today that John R. Teare, Jr., counsel in the firm’s Charleston, W.Va. office, has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. He will serve a three-year term. The Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia’s goal is to […]

Help attract growth and opportunity to the area with MAGNET

Preliminary results from a first-of-its-kind research project to identify opportunities  and obstacles to building a world-class, diverse professional workforce in the Kanawha Valley will be released by the Charleston Area Alliance at 1:30 p.m. on Friday during the state-wide Create West Virginia conference at the Charleston House Hotel. The project, called  MAGNET:  Managing, Attracting and […]