WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is urging consumers to be careful when having packages delivered to their homes. The advice comes as part of the Attorney General’s Holiday Consumer Protection Week. Packages arrive at doors more frequently during the holiday shopping season because of the popularity[Read More…]
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WV Legislative Interims: Committee on Health hears Direct Care Taskforce recommendations on workforce recruitment and retention
By Autumn Shelton, WV Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health on this week heard Direct Care Taskforce recommendations on methods to drive workforce recruitment and retention. Industry experts asked lawmakers to consider policy recommendations geared toward improving overall healthcare-delivery for West Virginians. Gaylene[Read More…]
WV Legislative Interims: Committee on Health hears testimony on the federal investigation into the WVDHHR
By Autumn Shelton, WV Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va – The West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health met this week during the December Interim meetings to hear testimony concerning the recently announced federal civil rights investigation into the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) on allegations of[Read More…]
WV Legislative Interims: WVDNR looking at development of ‘very large campground’
By Matt Young, WV Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Legislature’s Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Subcommittee heard testimony Monday from James Bailey, acting secretary of the W.Va. Department of Commerce, and Brad Reid, chief of West Virginia State Parks, regarding the implementation of House Bill 4408. Under[Read More…]
Canaan Valley Resort Ski Area in West Virginia set to open on Dec. 17
WV Press Release Sharing DAVIS, W.Va. – Canaan Valley Resort’s Ski Area, the site of the first commercial ski development in West Virginia and situated in the highest mountain valley east of the Rockies, will open for the 2022-2023 season on Saturday, Dec.17, conditions permitting. The resort’s Tube Park is[Read More…]
W.Va. State Senator Mike Woelfel chosen as Senate Minority Leader
WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The elected Democrats in the West Virginia Senate met Tuesday to select their new Minority Leader for the 86th Legislature. Senator Mike Woelfel (D-Cabell) was chosen to replace Stephen Baldwin (D-Greenbrier), who did not win his bid for re-election to the Senate. “I am[Read More…]
Paw Paw Christmas parade carries on holiday tradition
by Lisa Schauer Paw Paw residents lined Winchester Street on a clear, cold afternoon this past Sunday for the town’s annual Christmas parade. “Whoop, whoop,” a Paw Paw police siren cut through the silence, announcing the start of a roughly 15-member parade of costumed characters, floats, carolers, first responders, Santa’s[Read More…]
Crowd enjoys biggest Winter Fest Parade yet
by Trish Rudder Against a sharp wind and colder temperature, about 4,000 parade watchers were bundled up in coats, hats, gloves and blankets to see the 6th Annual Winter Fest Parade in downtown Berkeley Springs on Saturday, December 3. The floats, trucks and cars were decorated with an abundance of[Read More…]
It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats — Sour cabbage
Sour cabbage My Great Grandmother, Arizona Henry, made her sauerkraut in clay crock pots every fall. She would spend hours shredding the cabbage in the kitchen, complaining about her arm being sore. She always called it sour cabbage. I always thought of kraut back then as gross and stinky. My[Read More…]
What’s up with egg prices?
by Kate Shunney Inflation has hit grocery shoppers hard in the last year, spiking the prices of nearly every item at least 30%. In the case of eggs, that price jump has been startling. Last week, a dozen eggs at the Dollar General in Berkeley Springs were priced at $4.70.[Read More…]
