Advance only tickets on sale now for Marshall University’s 15th annual Paint the Capital City Green rally

Tickets are on sale for the 15th annual Paint the Capital City Green celebration coming to Charleston Embassy Suites on Thursday, Aug. 23. Thundering Herd fans will hear from Doc Holliday, Marshall University’s head football coach, athletic director Mike Hamrick and President Stephen J. Kopp as well as key members of this year’s team as…

Scholarship created in honor of retiring Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine administrator

James “Jim” J. Schneider retired from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in June, but his service to the school will live on through the creation of an endowed scholarship in his name. The scholarship, known as the James “Jim” J. Schneider Endowed Scholarship, will be awarded to an entering first-year student…

Feed Our Youth Food Drive

As of January 2011, 77 percent of the children in Marshall and Ohio counties are going hungry every night, only getting meals at school. Here is what you can do to help! From July 14th to August 20th, RSVP After School Adventures Program is hosting a food drive. With your help, we are going to…

Charleston professional to be featured in national publications’ “40 under 40”

One of Charleston’s very own, Jama Jarrett, has been selected to receive Connect and Rejuvenate magazines’ “40 under 40” top industry leaders designation. Jarrett is the vice president of operations and communications at the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and led the bureau during the recent search for the bureau’s new president. “It is…

Marshall to house about 275 power line workers

  Marshall University is housing about 275 out-of-state utility workers brought in by Appalachian Power to help the company restore power following last week’s record-breaking storm that damaged electrical infrastructure across much of the Mid-Atlantic. The workers are staying in three of the four Marshall Commons residence halls on the Huntington campus tonight and Saturday…

Shepherd’s Appalachian Anthology to be featured at July 22 reading

There will be a reading from the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Ron Rash Volume IV, on Sunday, July 22 at 1 p.m. in the Four Seasons Bookstore, 116 W. German Street, Shepherdstown.  The anthology is a joint project of the Shepherd University Foundation and the West Virginia Center for the Book. Authors anthologized in the…