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The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC has announced that Neva Lusk, member in its Charleston office, was named a West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow. She joins fewer than 300 other fellows previously selected from more than 5,000 eligible lawyers and judges in the state. The foundation bases its selection of Fellows on attorneys’…
Ferguson’s parent company, Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors, announced its financial results for the first-half of the 2013 fiscal year. Ferguson’s like-for-like (or same store) sales growth was 8.3 percent, including price inflation of approximately 1 percent. Trading profit was 29 percent ahead of last year.…
EmbroidMe has opened a new store in Wheeling, WV. The store and showroom are located at 951 National Road. EmbroidMe is the world’s largest diversified promotional products franchise. They provide custom embroidery, screen printing, and promotional products around the globe. “We are excited to open EmbroidMe in the Ohio Valley. We offer an assortment of…
The Raleigh County Judicial Center in Beckley, WV has received an Merit Award for Achievement in Architecture from the West Virginia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The project was completed by Silling Associates, Inc. of Charleston. The new Raleigh County Judicial Center is located on a tight urban infill site at the main…
Zipping through trees on steel cables at 25-30 miles per hour sounds like an activity geared more to thrill-seekers than academicians. But in creating a zipline canopy tour, West Virginia University (WVU) has built a facility that’s both thought-provoking and adrenaline-inducing. The tour, a network of four ziplines connected to trees at WVU’s Adventure WV course in the WVU Research Forest,…
Ronald “Trey” Lockhart, a student at Concord University, has been selected to participate in the inaugural “GEAR UP Alumni Leadership Academy,” (Academy) a 12-month national leadership program providing students across the country with intensive training in civic engagement and community development. A native of McDowell County, Lockhart was selected from a nationwide pool of applicants…