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March 12, 2010

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Thumbs up ... to Chris Lewallen of Alderson, a business management senior at West Virginia University. Lewallen was elected president of the WVU Student Government Association. Elected to the Board of Governors was Tracy Speilman, a nursing junior from Beckley.



Thumbs up ... to proceeds from the sales of the Boy Scouts 100th Anniversary Special Section in The Register-Herald going to the local Boy Scouts of America chapter.



Thumbs up ... to four local individuals recognized as West Virginia History Heroes for going beyond the call of duty and ensuring the success of local history, genealogy, preservation and museum organizations. Dale Payne, Jeff Miller, Ann Skaggs and Jack C. Wills were among 44 people acknowledged during a History Day program and ceremony in Charleston.



Thumbs up ... to Heart of God Ministries congregation for donating over $2,000 to the American Red Cross for Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The Beckley Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s Employee Association also raised $500 for the Red Cross to help recovery work in Haiti. Beckley Wal-Mart also made a donation for earthquake relief through the General Mills charitable program.



Thumbs up ... to $126 million in federal stimulus funds to increase the state’s high-speed Internet access.



Thumbs up ... to CEO Harold Dobbins and his staff at Family Options Providers in Beckley for their Teens for Jeans project. For the third year, the agency has participated in a national campaign launched by Aeropostale and Do Something to raise awareness about the plight of homeless teens by collecting jeans for the less fortunate. This year, close to 700 or 800 pairs have been donated.



Thumbs up ... to the Children’s and Youth Ministries at Beckley First Baptist Church, which has been collecting change and raised $200 for the Women’s Resource Center.



Thumbs up ... to the National Park Service, which has approved $6.88 million in federal funds for the New River Gorge National River to stabilize and preserve the historic Nuttall Mine structures. The Nuttallburg Mining Complex and Town Historic District in Fayette County will be made ready for visitors.

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Editorials
  • Drug screening

    When it comes to coal mine safety issues, representatives of the United Mine Workers often are leading the way.

    February 10, 2012

  • This is why

    Operation of Fayette schools
    won’t return to local control  
    until there is some consensus

    February 9, 2012

  • MSU

    Mountain State University is at a critical crossroads and southern West Virginians need to step up and show their support for the school and its hundreds of students and employees.

    February 8, 2012

  • MSU

    Community needs to show its support for our university

    February 8, 2012

  • If you don’t think so, you’d better think again

    EPA regulations turning the screw on coal industry

    February 7, 2012

  • Airport projects crucial

    Tom Cochran and others at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport can breathe a little easier, or at least take a deep breath and exhale, after word came from Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s office last week that a deal has been struck between the two chambers in Congress to authorize long-term funding, into 2015, for the Federal Aviation Administration.

    February 5, 2012

  • Thumbs — Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

    February 4, 2012

  • It’s not a choice

    Whether a bill to eliminate tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike when the current bonds expire some eight years from now is passed by the Legislature and signed into law or not, one thing is absolutely certain — the state Transportation Department has the responsibility to maintain that 88-mile stretch of Interstate highway.

    February 3, 2012

  • On the shelf

    A Senate bill (SB168) offered by 13 of the upper chamber’s members that would have given counties the option to boost the pay of county commissioners, sheriffs, county and circuit clerks, assessors and prosecuting attorneys by at least $10,000 each has apparently been shelved and will do nothing but draw dust this legislative session.

    February 2, 2012

  • The time is now

    Drug abuse.

    February 1, 2012