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Dairy Barn Arts Center Kicks Off Patio Fridays June 23
Patio Fridays at the Dairy Barn Arts Center begin June 23 with live music by The Bernie Nau Quartet! Come enjoy this brand new community space! Patio Fridays are rain or shine with a cash bar and food available. The patio is open 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and the live music kicks off at… Read More
Online School Sues Ohio Board After Vote on $60M Repayment
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – One of the nation’s largest online charter schools is suing Ohio’s State Board of Education over its vote to have the school repay $60 million that was disputed because of a lack of justifying documentation. The complaint from the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow alleges board members violated state public-meetings law by… Read More
Lawsuit Challenges Kentucky’s Medical Marijuana Ban
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s criminal ban on medical marijuana is being challenged in a lawsuit that says its use could help combat the state’s opioid addiction woes. The suit, filed Wednesday in Franklin County Circuit Court in Frankfort, lists three plaintiffs who have used medical marijuana to help ease health problems. The suit says… Read More
“Ohio in Photographs…” Has Been Published Recently by Ohio University Press
The Ohio University Press has recently published a new coffee-table photo book about Ohio. It’s called “Ohio in Photographs: A Portrait of the Buckeye State.” It’s a compilation of photographs taken by noted landscape, architectural, and travel photographers Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber. There will be a free conversation with the two photographers on… Read More
Cardinal Health Seeks Dismissal of Counties’ Drug Lawsuits
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A pharmaceuticals distributor has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits filed by six West Virginia counties over the opioid crisis, arguing that they were filed too late and the matter was already addressed in a state suit. Cardinal Health says the counties were on notice in 2012, when then-Attorney General… Read More
A ‘Few Focused, Clever Words’ Win Athens Native Poetry Award
By: Emily Votaw
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Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poems speak of the Appalachian experience – of pride, fear, family, memory, tradition. Of subsidized apartments and homemade desserts made with Crisco. Of a sense of duty; of a sense of voicelessness, of a deep restlessness and a resonance with the valleys and hills of Appalachia. “My grandfather’s farm is minutes outside of… Read More
EPA Testing for “Possible” Carcinogen PCBs in West Virginia
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MINDEN, W.Va. (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a month-long sampling of water and soil for PCB chemicals in West Virginia. Local news outlets report the testing in Minden until Friday is for polychlorinated biphenyls, which were commonly used as an electrical equipment insulator. The EPA lists PCBs as a “possible” carcinogen and… Read More
Media Company Buying 17 Daily Papers in Ohio, West Virginia
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A media company based in Texas is buying 16 daily newspapers in Ohio along with several weeklies and a daily paper in West Virginia. AIM Media Management said Tuesday that its newly-formed AIM Media Midwest will acquire the newspapers from Civitas Media. Terms of the deal aren’t being released, but the company says all employees… Read More
New River Gorge Rangers Outfitted with Overdose Rescue Kits
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia University and the state Department of Health and Human Resources have provided park rangers at New River Gorge National River with overdose rescue kits. The university says in the last decade, there have been five overdoses at the park, none of them fatal. More than a million people visit… Read More
Where Are We in Trump/Russia Investigations? NPR Security Editor Tells Us
We have investigations ongoing of the Trump campaign/Russia connection in the Senate, the House and with the Special Counsel appointed by the Interim Attorney General. It seems we don’t have any one place to follow the events and with each entity conducting its own investigation, we as average citizens can feel like we’re drowning in… Read More