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Do you have a favorite West Virginia ramp dinner or festival you'd like to share with the public? We'd like to hear from you. Now in...

WVU to fully reopen campuses for fall 2021 semester

The tower on Stewart Hall overlooks the downtown campus at West Virginia University at Morgantown, WV.
West Virginia University plans to fully reopen its campuses this fall, according to school officials who attribute the decision to continued decreases in cases...

WVU transportation center will bring mobility to rural areas

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The upcoming launch of a new transportation center at West Virginia University will direct $1.5 million in federal funding toward the...

"Trees of Our Heritage" on display at Blennerhassett Museum

It’s beginning to look like Christmas at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History in Parkersburg, with the annual “Trees of Our Heritage” display underway through Dec. 23, 2018.
It’s beginning to look like Christmas at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where the “Trees of Our Heritage” display...

Glenville State U. forestry scholarship honors W.Va. firefighter

GLENVILLE, W.Va. — Friends, family, and coworkers of Glenville State University graduate and West Virginia Division of Forestry employee Cody Mullens are working to...

Little girl saved train on the little-known Short Line in 1902

The West Virginia Short Line Railroad meandered along Fishing Creek through Jacksonburg, West Virginia, in Wetzel County.
PINE GROVE, W.Va. — Pine Grove, West Virginia, each year hosts the Shortline Ramp Festival, the celebration of the native "ramp," or wild leek,...

Rich West Virginia honey benefitting consumers, producers

West Virginia is a prominent producer of Appalachian honey, churning out almost 245,000 pounds annually from 13,300 registered bee colonies. It ranks 40th in...

West Virginia trail leads through garden of strange rocks

David Sibray explores boulders along the Honeycomb Rocks Trail in Pocahontas County, near Marlinton, West Virginia.
Wherever you turn in West Virginia, you're bound to find remarkable rocks, cliffs, and boulders, and some of them may appear bizarrely unnatural. One...

Explore winter in West Virginia with Rick Burgess: Part 2

Glade Creek wanders through a snowy hollow at Babcock State Park. Photo courtesy Rick Burgess.
Winter in West Virginia may be more varied than in any other eastern U.S. state: Its northern panhandle suffers the brunt of lake-effect snows, while its...

Students map landmark campus trees at Bethany College

Landmark trees shade the campus at Bethany College near the school's old-growth Parkinson Forest.
Students at Bethany College are mapping trees across the school's historic campus in advance of the arrival of one of the nation's foremost experts...

Curious turn-of-the-century town attracting Ohio River investors

Terry Wiley is welcoming others to invest in Sistersville, West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
Rural Sistersville, West Virginia, might seem a curious place for a village of high-style architecture, but then the oil rush that brought prosperity here...

Lesser-known facts about Coffindaffer's roadside crosses

Three crosses rise along a West Virginia ridge.
SUTTON, W.Va.—One night in 1984, the Reverend Bernard Coffindaffer had an epiphany. God called him, he explained afterward, to erect sets of three crosses...

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