ACE Adventure Resort Kicks off 2015 Adventure Series
ACE Adventure Resort is excited to kick off the ACE Adventure Series taking place throughout the 2015 season. The Wonderland Mountain Challenge, a demanding trail run through the mountains of West Virginia, takes place on Saturday, May 23, and will be the first event of the series. While the adventure resort may be better known […]
Concord University’s Stuff the Bus Donating School Supplies to Wyoming County Children
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 […]
June Harless Center to Offer Summer Camps
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 […]
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® to Take Place on Marshall Campus
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 Tomblin Encourages Fayette, Mercer and Tucker County Businesses to Apply for SBA Assistance
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 […]
Boots to Business Entrepreneurship Program Trains 25,000 Transitioning Service Members
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 […]