Coal Heritage Lecture Series Examines the Impact of Coal on the Economy

Concord University will host its third installment of the 2015 Coal Heritage Lecture Series The Impact of Coal on the Economy at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7 in Room E 10 of the Erma Byrd Higher Education Center located on Airport Road in Beaver. The Coal Heritage Lecture Series is presented by the Concord University…

Alpha Natural Resources Creates School of Medicine Scholarship

Alpha Natural Resources has created a newly endowed scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. The Alpha Natural Resources Scholarship will be available to first-year medical students, with first preference given to a child of an Alpha Natural Resources employee and second preference to a student from one of the counties…

SBA Administrator Honors Nation’s Top Small Businesses

Yesterday, Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), announced this year’s Small Business Person of the Year winners from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A panel is currently reviewing all the packages and a national winner and two runners-up will be selected…

National Foundation Leader to visit West Virginia and Highlight Economic Recovery

What do Michigan and West Virginia have in common? You might say they would be strange bedfellows yet events over the past decade portray more similarities then one would expect. No, it’s not about former football coaches, rather when looking at issues such as the economy, civic infrastructure, education system, the attraction and retention of…