Huntington – The Marshall University Forensic Science Center has entered into a collaborative partnership with the ANDE Corporation for placement of a rapid DNA instrument at the Center for future validation and testing.Read more
Huntington- The Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University is working around the clock to produce personal protective equipment as part of the fight to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.Read more
Huntington –Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy recently published a journal article by three Marshall Health clinical pharmacists. Ronald Carico Jr., Jordan Sheppard and C. Borden Thomas authored “Community pharmacists and communication in the time of COVID-19: Applying the health belief model.”Read more
Charleston - Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday following consulting with medical experts, along with the Secretary of State, and Attorney General, he is moving the state's 2020 primary election from May 12 to June 9.
Huntington - Marshall University student Maria “Ellie” White has been named one of 396 college students to receive a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.Read more
Below, is the agenda for Thursday's regularly scheduled Wayne County Commission meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 3 p.m. the first Thursday, and 10 a.m. the following Mondays in the commission's meeting room at the courthouse.
Huntington - The City Council Tuesday unanimously adopted a tax and fee relief package to help all city residents, retail shops and restaurants weather the financial fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak. Read more
A team of scientists, pathologists and lab technicians from Marshall University and Mountain Health Network are helping address a limited supply of the solution used to transport testing swabs for the novel coronavirus by making the mixture in one of the university’s labs.Read more
One the best representations of the constantly changing coronavirus situation is the Worldometer. The charts can be altered to rank the results for several elements, like total cases, active cases, most new cases, etc. Please see the link at end.Read more
Huntington -The city council approved a special meeting next week for a vote on a relief package to assist businesses and residents affected by work stoppages caused by the COVID-19 virus.
Charleston - Gov. Jim Justice issued an executive order Monday requiring out-of-state citizens to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the Mountain State and authorizing the West Virginia State Police to monitor the state roads and highways to enforce that order.
Huntington – The West Virginia Mask Army, a pop-up nonprofit making masks for health care professionals using furnace filters, delivered 500 masks to the Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital in Hinton on Saturday, March 28. The masks were made in just over a week to bolster supplies in West Virginia in preparation for the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Huntington - Mayor Steve Williams is reminding community members that, along with complaints of nonessential businesses, the Huntington Police Department will respond to and investigate complaints of large social gatherings that are in violation of Gov. Jim Justice's executive stay-at-home order. Read more
The Cabell and Putnam County Health departments are investigating a confirmed case of COVID 19 by an employee of Sarah's Day Care in Teays Valley. The individual also worked at the Huntington location of Sarah's located in a portion of a church on W. Tenth St.Read more
As each of us manages COVID-19 in our own way, please know we will get through this. As with plagues we’ve endured since the beginning of time, this too, shall pass. Read more
My heart goes out to all the parents who were never planning to homeschool, but nevertheless find themselves teaching their children at home today. I chose this beautiful, crazy life, and I completely understand why some people wouldn’t choose it.
Why are governments so enthusiastic about shutting down businesses when other less draconian measures are available and prudent? Partly because the legal and political costs of doing so are so low.
Stuck in a stay at home bubble social distinancing pandemic, we don't have to be together to work together (thanks Verizon) has become a new mantra, for most.
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