Highmark Foundation Accepting Applications for Creating a Healthy School Environment Grant and Awards Program
The Highmark Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Creating a Healthy School Environment Grant and Awards Program, which will make available a total of $425,000 for schools grades K-12 in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The goal of the program is to create healthier school environments that experience positive, sustainable and lasting change through […]
Tamarack Foundation For the Arts Names New Director
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts is proud to announce the hire of new Executive Director Renee Margocee. For the past 14 years, the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts has worked to build the creative economy of West Virginia by giving all visual, design and media artists the support they need to succeed. After dedicating her […]
Stonewall Resort to Host 14th Annual Culinary Classic
Featuring chefs from Virginia, Tennessee and West Virginia, Stonewall Resort’s 14th Annual Culinary Classic, recognized as one of the most popular and longest running culinary events in the state, will be held March 3-5, 2017. Steve Ludwig, director of sales and marketing at Stonewall Resort, said, “The Culinary Classic will indulge guests in a weekend-long […]
Northern West Virginia Center for Independent Living Receives $611,787 Grant
The Northern West Virginia Center for Independent Living (NWVCIL) has been awarded $611,787 in grant funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh’s Affordable Housing Program, in partnership with Clear Mountain Bank. The grant will be used to help fund NWVCIL’s “My Choice, My Home 2017” program, which provides owner-occupied home modifications to ensure […]
Wholesale Distributor Giant to Open Facility in West Virginia, Create 70 Jobs
One of the largest wholesale distributors in the United States, H.T. Hackney Company, is opening a warehouse and distribution facility in the city of Milton. Cabell County facility will be the company’s first facility in West Virginia. The warehouse and distribution center is expected to create an estimated 70 jobs. The company is accepting job […]
New Orion Strategies Poll Shows Respondents Seeing Positive Direction for West Virginia
A new poll by Orion Strategies surveys the opinions of historic likely voters on a number of current topics in West Virginia, as well as national issues in the news. In a reversal from a similar poll one year ago, a 42% plurality of West Virginians now believe that things in West Virginia are headed […]