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Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia will host Jazz Feast on Saturday, Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature a low country boil and other flavors of the South with live music by The Chris Oxley Quartet. Entrée options include Oysters on the Half Shell, Fried Alligator Tail, Slow Cooked Pork Po’ Boys, Red Beans…
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine welcomed West Virginians for Affordable Health Care and the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership to its medical campus Friday, Sept. 15, for a roundtable discussion about prenatal substance abuse and exposure, particularly neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS. West Virginia leads the nation in NAS—a group of health…
When guests of Adventures on the Gorge (AOTG) take their first few nervous steps along the mile-long, 24-inch-wide catwalk beneath the New River Gorge Bridge, they are probably thinking more about the harnesses connecting them to the bridge than enjoying the bird’s-eye views of the New River Gorge and rushing rapids below. By the…
Don’t peek now, but fall is looking pretty spectacular in Canaan Valley in West Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains. “Perfect timing for our Leaf Peepers Festival this weekend,” said Steve Drumheller, general manager of Canaan Valley Resort. “The weather has been great, and people up and down the valley are energized by the whole atmosphere.” …
By Elizabeth Hofreuter Many students are quietly suffering in West Virginia’s classrooms. One in 68 children now lives with autism. One in five has dyslexia. Of the 273,000 students in the Mountain State, more than 58,000 may be struggling to learn because their brains are wired differently, as confirmed by either of these diagnoses. For…
Marshall University has been awarded $854,272 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program (BHWET). The university will receive $213,568 each year for the next four years with the aim of increasing the number of behavioral health providers serving underserved populations and people in rural areas.…