TMC Technologies continues to grow its FBI CJIS team, adds Kenneth Heck to support Operations & Maintenance Professional Services II Program
TMC Technologies of West Virginia (TMC), a leading edge technology solution provider is proud to announce the hiring of Harrison County, WV resident Kenneth Heck as a Microsoft SQL Server Data Base Administrator (DBA) supporting the Operations & Maintenance Professional Services II (COMPS II) program at the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS). TMC is […]
U.S. Department of Commerce Invests to Make Critical Water Infrastructure Improvements Needed to Spur Business Growth in Doddridge County, West Virginia
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $962,000 grant to the Doddridge County Public Service District to provide water service at a 50-acre commercial site located out of the floodplain in Doddridge County, West Virginia. The EDA grant, to be matched with $962,000 in local investment, is expected to […]
Guy Simmons Named Adopt-A-Highway Volunteer of the Year
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s (WVDEP) Adopt-A-Highway program and Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (REAP), in conjunction with the state Department of Highways, named St. Clara resident Guy Simmons as its 2019 Adopt-A-Highway Volunteer of the Year Saturday at its Volunteer Appreciation Day event at Canaan Valley Resort in Tucker County. Simmons, 94, has […]
Business Driven: Workforce Development in the Mid-Ohio Valley
The Mid-Ohio Valley (MOV) Workforce Development Employer Solutions Program (WDB-EST) is a team developed to work specifically with employers throughout the MOV Workforce Region of Workforce West Virginia. The WDB-EST serves employers and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, or WIOA, participants within their nine-county area in West Virginia covering Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and Wood counties.
Fostering the Future: Concord University and Raleigh General Hospital Work Together to Provide Foster and Adoptive Care Training
A shortage of trained and certified foster parents has developed in West Virginia as the number of children entering the foster care system continues to rise. This growing need for foster parents in the state has promoted Concord University and Raleigh General Hospital (RGH) to form a partnership to provide foster and adoptive care training.
Dreamland: A Q&A with Sam Quinones
Every year that I have worked for West Virginia Executive, my main writing assignment for our annual winter health care issue has focused on the Mountain State’s drug epidemic in some way, whether it was “Fighting for Life in West Virginia,” which detailed the state’s comprehensive approach of criminal justice, treatment and prevention to the epidemic; “Voices from the Front Lines,” a profile on Jan Rader, Patricia Keller and Necia Freeman, the three West Virginia women featured in the Netflix documentary “Heroin(e)”; or my most recent piece, “Redefining Huntington,” a look inside the recovery, revitalization and renaissance of a city dubbed the overdose capital of the world.