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School children in Wyoming County, West Virginia are benefitting from the community’s generous support of Concord University’s Stuff the Bus campaign. Coordinated by Concord’s Beckley campus, Stuff the Bus provides classroom basics from pencils, notebooks and pens, to crayons, colored pencils and backpacks for students in need. Representatives of Concord University will present the school…
The June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development, part of the College of Education at Marshall University, is offering summer camps on Marshall’s Huntington campus for students entering 3rd through 8th grade. The theme for the camps this year is Exploring S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics). Links to register for…
On Thursday, April 23, the Marshall University ROTC Thundering Herd Battalion will host “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” in conjunction with the Marshall Police Department, MU Women’s Center and CONTACT Rape Crisis Center. Inspired by the saying that you can’t understand someone else’s experience until…
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin today announced the federal disaster declaration granted following Winter Storm Thor has been amended to include affected small businesses in Fayette, Mercer and Tucker counties. These counties are now eligible to apply for U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) low-interest disaster loans. “These loans will provide much needed financial aid to small…
Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, the leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), today announced that the agency’s Boots to Business program has now trained 25,000 transitioning service members. For two years, Boots to Business—the entrepreneurship track of the Department of Defense’s Transition Assistance Program (TAP)—has provided entrepreneurship and business planning training to members of America’s…
As part of University Healthcare’s May 10-16 National Hospital Week celebration, Jefferson Medical Center will host its third annual Community Baby Shower on Saturday, May 16 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Mothers and fathers-to-be, as well as new moms and dads are invited to celebrate new life and parenthood by attending this free educational…