Main Street Bank Named West Virginia’s Top Community Lender
Main Street Bank, headquartered in Wheeling, WV, was named as the West Virginia Community Bank of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) West Virginia Director Judy McCauley. The lending institution provided funding for nine West Virginia small businesses in fiscal year 2011 totaling just over $1.2 million through SBA’s guaranteed loan program. […]
Moving the Mountain State Forward
By Kensie Hamilton There are many innovative, entrepreneurial people who call West Virginia home. For this multi-part article we wanted to let some of these folks outline the challenges they see in the energy industry in the Mountain State. Not being the kind of people who like to complain without solutions, we also asked them […]
Alison Wilson
Director, Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center & Associate Professor of Surgery, West Virginia University Health Science Center By Kensie Westerfield Rolling up her sleeves and getting involved is in Alison Wilson’s blood. Growing up in Ohio and Indiana, everyone had a job. Whether it was doing laundry or making dinner, everybody was expected to lend […]
Sandy Sponaugle
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Platinum PR By Kensie Westerfield Growing up in Great Falls, Virginia, Sandy Sponaugle wanted to be a flight attendant because she wanted to travel and loves to meet new people. While she never became a flight attendant, her childhood dream job carried over into her career of choice, through which […]
Gary & Brian Sims
Owners, Advanced Technical Solutions By Jennifer Nugent The thing Gary Sims remembers about his first job as a paper boy is what he learned about work ethic and responsibility. The thing his brother, Brian, remembers about helping his older brother with the 150-house paper route is throwing newspapers from his seat on the back of […]
Matthew Sheppard
Director of Corporate Communications, Chesapeake Energy By Dawn Nolan In the natural gas industry, Matt Sheppard is a bit of a rarity. After all, there aren’t many Emmy Award winners working behind the scenes of a drilling rig. In 2002 as Sheppard was transitioning out of a career as a television sports journalist and into […]