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Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie, Toby Keith music headliners for The Greenbrier Classic

2012-02-10T13:38:41-05:00

Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart with special guest Lionel Richie, and Toby Keith will headline the musical entertainment card for the 2012 Greenbrier Classic.
Keith will perform on Wednesday, July 4 while Stewart and Richie are scheduled for Friday, July 6. Bon Jovi will wrap up the concert series on Saturday, July 7.
For more information see Saturday’s edition of The Register-Herald.

Hundreds of students attend ACT career fair

2012-02-10T00:05:20-05:00

The Academy of Careers and Technology celebrated National Career Technical Education Month this week with a career fair ending today.
Academy Principal Charles Pack explained that more than 600 Raleigh County students were scheduled to visit the facility between Feb. 6 and Feb. 10 to view interactive displays and learn about the educational opportunities available through career and technical training.

Support grows for texting ban

2012-02-10T00:03:56-05:00

You can count House Judiciary Chairman Tim Miley among lawmakers who favor making texting while driving a primary offense.
And his committee now holds the key to a Senate bill that would outlaw the practice, deemed universally dangerous by professional drivers, and by those who make and enforce the laws.

Bill looks to revamp teacher evaluations

2012-02-10T00:02:34-05:00

West Virginia is considering expanding a teacher evaluation pilot program in order to seek a waiver from the constraints of a federal education law.
The House Education Committee advanced a bill Thursday that would require all schools in the state to use the new teacher evaluation system by the 2013-2014 school year.
The pilot program is in its first year and just 25 schools are participating, prompting questions whether it is too soon to take the program statewide.

Pugh puts trust in trustees

2012-02-10T00:01:12-05:00

From the vantage point of his office across the street from the Mountain State University campus, Beckley Mayor Emmett Pugh said he has seen the school grow over the years.
In the early 1990s, he said, it was a small two-year junior college and was nearly bankrupt.
“Today they are a prime part of our economic development puzzle here in the city. They provide a lot of jobs and a very needed product — higher education — and I think they do a great job,” Pugh said.

Nursing program information presented

2012-02-10T00:00:35-05:00

Mountain State University Dean of Nursing Dr. Sheila Garland held another forum for nursing students Thursday, but no students attended.
One nursing student’s mother, Sarita Beckett, who was also present for the previous forum, was in attendance.

Committee holds key to texting bill

2012-02-09T17:38:45-05:00

Getting technical assistance

2012-02-09T00:05:49-05:00

Kristean Hallett, a student at New River Community and Technical College, center, shows Jemeria Toney, left, and Meranda Todd, both seniors at Woodrow Wilson High School, how to use a infrared camera that shows cold spots in a house at the college’s Advanced Training Center in Ghent Wednesday. Fifty students from Liberty, Shady Spring and Woodrow Wilson high schools visited the college to learn about the school’s various training programs.

OPEB bill passes without changes

2012-02-09T00:03:21-05:00

Republican fears that ingredients of “Obama care” are embedded in it failed Wednesday to sway the House of Delegates from altering a Senate bill retiring the Other Post-Employment Benefits liability.
One by one, with a few Republicans voting against them, the House shot down amendments that would have eliminated a dozen points of SB469.

Tattoos, tanning for kids targeted

2012-02-09T00:02:27-05:00

Skin artists can imprint no tattoos on minors before their time.
At least that was the thinking Wednesday in the Senate’s unanimous approval of a bill that makes it unlawful for anyone under 16 to walk into a tattoo parlor and get a skin picture.
Teenagers between 16 and 18 would have to be accompanied by an adult or legal guardian before getting a tattoo. The bill also bans all indoor tanning for children.