Clyde CraigClyde Craig

Clyde Craig is a staff writer for West Virginia Explorer. Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, he traveled with his family across the globe with the U.S. Army before returning to the Mountain State in 2011. He has been a writer with the explorer since 2018. He can be reached at 304-575-7390 or at craig@wvexplorer.com.
2021 National Hunting & Fishing Days celebration to take place at Adventure on! Freedom Festival Sept. 10-12 with free general admission.

W.Va. Hunting and Fishing Days moves to New River Gorge

Officials say West Virginia’s annual Hunting and Fishing Days celebration on Sept. 10-12 will look quite different as the outdoor exposition will be part of the inaugural “Adventure On! Freedom Festival” at the Summit Bechtel Reserve on the New River Gorge. Adjacent to the newly established New River Gorge National Park & Preserve, the event … Read more

Berries at a farmer's market

Create Buckhannon awarded 2021 gift for agricultural innovation

Create Buckhannon has been named the winner of the 2021 West Virginia Vanguard Agriculture Competition, a statewide contest sponsored by the Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University that honors innovation and ingenuity in agriculture. The annual award recognizes a West Virginia entrepreneur or organization whose idea has the greatest potential to solve logistical challenges … Read more

Gov. Justice announces 2021 Community Development Block Grant awards

Justice announces more than $13 million for community projects

Gov. Jim Justice today awarded 19 grants worth $13,734,817 for parks, broadband, demolition, and water-sewer to communities in 14 counties across the state. The Federal Community Development Block Grant funds are a pleasure to provide, said Justice, who was joined for a virtual ceremony by local officials representing many of the communities receiving these grants. … Read more

Wild boar still range across isolated mountain hollows in Logan County.

Proceeds of wild boar hunt support elk restoration project

The W.Va. Division of Natural Resources has utilized proceeds from a February lottery wild boar hunt to purchase a UTV in support of the ongoing Elk Restoration Project, according to Elk Project Leader Randy Kelley. In conjunction with Natural Resource Partners, a special hunt was held between February 5-7 on the organization’s private lands in … Read more

W.Va. Division of Forestry Forester Jesse King instructs students.

Glenville, state partnership creates forestry certification programs

Glenville State College in partnership with the West Virginia Division of Forestry is offering forestry certifications as part of the school’s expanding Forest Technology program. Aside from earning an Associate of Science in Forest Technology or a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management with a major in Forest Technology, students in those programs are … Read more

Alpha Technologies has expanded its broadband business innovation at its offices in South Charleston, West Virginia.

Governor celebrates broadband expansion by Alpha Technologies

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice congratulated the service-disabled, veteran-owned company Alpha Technologies for crossing the finish line on a major fiber expansion project in the Kanawha Valley. “I’ve said many times that broadband is monumental to our future in West Virginia,” Justice said Tuesday of the expansion, which was supported by his broadband initiatives. “Projects … Read more

Pendeleton County, Potomac Branches Region

Forest Stewardship program announced in eastern panhandle

The West Virginia Division of Forestry is announcing a sign-up period for the Forest Stewardship program counties in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in the state’s eastern panhandle. The program assists landowners with the management of forest on properties in Grant, Hardy, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, Berkeley, Pendleton, and Jefferson counties. According to a release from the … Read more