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…
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.
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.
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.
Class of 2019, WVU College of Law By Blair Dowler As a first-generation college student raised by a single mother, Stephen Scott knew he would face challenges during his time at West Virginia University (WVU). Instead of being discouraged, he used those challenges as a source of motivation for making his dream of becoming an…
Class of 2019, WVU College of Law By Blair Dowler Growing up in Hamlin, WV, folks surrounding Allyson Chandler always told her she should be a lawyer. So, naturally, she did not want to be a lawyer. “During undergrad I thought I might want to get a Ph.D. and teach, but I wasn’t in love…