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The West Virginia Division of Forestry’s K-9 team of Investigator/K-9 Handler Don Kelley and bloodhound partner Raisy were recently named 2016/2017 K-9 Team of the Year, Forestry Director Barry Cook announced. Kelley and Raisy were honored during the West Virginia Police Canine Association’s annual training/certification conference. State police and K-9 teams from city and county…
What: Martha Wehrle Kickoff to NYSC 2017 Where: Geary Auditorium at the University of Charleston When: June 15th – 12:00 Noon Who: Jon Boggs, Dan Carder and Greg Thompson Topic: The VW Diesel Emissions Fraud Case – At the Intersection of Science, Environmental Policy, Ethics and Law. As the opening lecture to the National Youth Science Camp,…
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine’s Maier Institute for Excellence in Prescribing for Elders with Dementia has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to study the overuse of benzodiazepines (BZDs) in geriatric patients, as well as to educate physicians on appropriate prescribing. The project is in partnership…
On Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18, 2017, Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad will host Potomac Eagle Rail Fest. The festival will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days with several railroad-related activities for all ages at Wappocomo Station, 1 ½ miles north of Romney, West Virginia on WV28. In addition to the regularly-scheduled 3-hour Trough…
Larson Design Group (LDG) is pleased to announce that Orrin Burke, designer in our site engineering department, has been elected to Main Street Morgantown’s Board of Directors. Main Street Morgantown is a non-profit organization dedicated to the continued revitalization of downtown Morgantown and the Historic Wharf District. Since its founding in 1984, MSM has been…
Concord University’s Upward Bound Program has been awarded two Federal TRIO Programs grants totaling more than $660,000 per year for five years. The funding will continue programming that provides academic skills and motivation for area high school students in their pursuit of a college degree, High school students from five southern West Virginia counties will…