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 […]

WVUH-East City Hospital Earns AABB Accreditation

West Virginia University Hospitals-East City Hospital has been granted AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) accreditation for the Blood Bank Transfusion service. This accreditation announcement follows an intensive on-site survey by specially trained AABB assessors, and establishes that the level of technical and administrative performance within the facility meets or exceeds the standards […]

WVU Health Sciences Dean Retires

  C. H. Mitch Jacques, MD, PhD, Dean of the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center Eastern Division retired on June 30, 2012. Dr. Jacques has served the State of West Virginia and its people for more than 19 years, both as a physician and as an instructor. Dr. Jacques was the only WVU School […]