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By Dana M. DeJarnett Smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death in our society. In 2006, The US Surgeon General’s office issued a report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, that concluded (1) secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke; (2)…
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012, Kanawha Valley and Community and Technical College (KVCTC) welcomed Family Court Judge William Watkins as a guest speaker to KVCTC’s Civil Law 1 class. The Civil Law 1 class is part of KVCTC’s Paralegal Studies Program. It is offered in the evening so that both traditional and well as non-traditional…
Shepherd University will host a seminar for 16 high school teachers from across the country to study Appalachian literature and culture through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for three weeks in July. With the $99,000 grant, participants in “Voices from the Misty Mountains: Appalachian Writers and Mountain Culture” will learn about Appalachian culture,…
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Together We Can Knock Out Breast Cancer is the theme for West Virginia University Hospitals-East’s upcoming discount mammogram clinics to be held at both City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson. These special clinics will be held each Saturday in October at City Hospital’s Breast…
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals returns to Marshall University’s Huntington campus in September to conduct a session that includes four distinctive cases. The Court’s appearance on Tuesday, Sept. 18, will be its fifth in the past eight years at Marshall, but first since 2009. It is one of the many events to be…
By Amy Pellegrin “A West Virginia woman really needs her power restored. She’s running out of money to gas the generator keeping her husband’s ventilator on,” the tweet stated. In the aftermath of the June 29, 2012, derecho that slammed West Virginia and left hundreds of thousands without power for days, a team of Fairmont…