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Cabela’s in Charleston, and the West Virginia Coal Association will honor the contributions of those who spend their working lives under the earth in coal mines by offering employee pricing to all active and retired coal miners. The Big Coal Appreciation Festival event recognizes the service and sacrifice of those who work in the mines…
You’ve gone online to get the checklists, read the articles, joined the webinars, and gathered some really good disaster preparedness tools for your business. But what should you tackle first? Is it the financial protection that comes with good insurance coverage? Should your priority be protecting your employees? And how do you find the time to work on…
The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) announced that firm members re-elected Michael J. Basile to the position of managing member. He is currently serving in his tenth year in this leadership role and will serve an additional three years with his re-election. “Mike is doing an outstanding job of moving Spilman forward…
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin praised four West Virginia students who were chosen to attend a prestigious summer science program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Sofia Jimenez of Summers County High School in Hinton, Elizabeth Remias of Clay County High School in Clay, and Kanyon Brogan and Isabella Jimenez of Summers Middle School in…
Four-year-old Cooper Frasher was diagnosed with apraxia of speech when he came to the Marshall University Speech and Hearing Center two years ago. Cooper’s mother, Terri Frasher, says this speech disorder caused her son to have language delays, which kept him from learning to speak, spell and even read. “As a mother, I am his…
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today encouraged the newly established 19-member Governor’s Commission on Middle Grades to study best practices and develop specific recommendations for raising student achievement in West Virginia middle schools. “Research shows middle school is the time when many students are at a critical crossroads,” Gov. Tomblin said to the group comprised of…