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As part of the global day dedicated to giving back, Mayor Steve Williams will issue a proclamation designating December 1 as #GivingTuesday for Huntington, at 11 a.m. in the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. In a worldwide promotion, the day has been set aside to allow charities, families, businesses, community…
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an international robotics program in which teams of young people, ages 9 to 14, assemble and compete with robots that are designed to accomplish tasks associated with a real-world “Challenge.” In the 2015 Trash Trek Challenge, children from over 86 countries will identify a problem, create an innovative solution, and…
Glenna Carter, environmental services, was recently named WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s Quality Service Award winner for October 2015. Each month, the hospital’s Service Award Committee selects an employee to receive the Quality Service Award. Carter was nominated by staff on the obstetrics unit. “Since the day Glenna began working on our unit, she has…
Dr. Andrew P. Nichols, who last spring received the Dr. Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award at Marshall University for the 2014-2015 academic year, will be the keynote speaker at MU’s winter commencement Saturday, Dec. 12. Commencement gets underway at 11 a.m. at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in downtown Huntington. The Hedrick award recognizes…
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) announced that attorney Dale W. Steager served once again as editor for the 2016 edition of the “Guidebook to West Virginia Taxes,” published annually by the West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. Steager has served as editor of the publication since 2010 and is also author of this…
SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet has named four new members to the Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development. The new task force members represent veteran service and military organizations and includes Victor Klingelhofer, Vietnam Veterans of America; Max Kidalov, Naval Postgraduate School; Davy Leghorn, America Legion; and Amanda Bainton, Military Officers Association of America. Each…