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 of 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.
A Q & A with Mayor Steve Williams and Dr. Michael Kilkenny, the physician director of the Cabell-Huntington Health Department discuss the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Kilkenny warned that "you don't have to go to Seattle or New York... the virus is here." He added, "this is what we have been preparing for... I am certain we will have a case in Huntington. "Read more
Clementine tests Walter’s patience in her 29th adventure at The Happy Store.
Trust. Distrust. And validation. All three permeated the atmosphere of The Happy Store that Friday like threads woven into one of the ribbons in Clementine’s father’s ribbon factory. Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. – One Marshall student saw the switch to online only classes not as a chance to study from home, but a chance to jump right into what she’s been training for.
As colleges across the nation send students home and switch to remote classes due to the COVID-19 outbreak, some are moving ahead with even more stressful activities: Title IX proceedings.
Huntington -Health officials joined with Congresswoman Carol Miller Wednesday for a teleconference to discuss West Virginia's place in containing the COVID-19 virus.
Below, is the agenda for Thursday's regularly scheduled Cabell County Commission meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 10 a.m. in the commission's chambers on the third floor of the courthouse.
Below, is a list of Huntington retail establishments, including bars and restaurants, either closed or offering curbside pick-up/limited delivery. The list is courtesy of the Huntington Area Convention and Visitors Bureau in conjunction with the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce, and will be updated as information becomes available.
A geophysical and demographic analysis of COVID-19 coronavirus deaths in China and Italy reveals leaders in western nations have been misled that quarantine and social distancing will quell the spread of this disease. The mortal cases of infectious pneumonia continued on past quarantines. Death rates will predictably fall as temperatures and the solar UV index rise with the arrival of the Spring equinox (March 19).
Below, is the agenda for Monday's regularly scheduled Wayne County Commission meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 10 a.m, the first Thursday, and 10 a.m. the folllowing Mondays in the commission's meeting room at the courthouse.
Huntington - In response to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, Marshall University President Jerome A. Gilbert this morning announced that the university will continue to deliver instruction exclusively online or through other alternative learning formats for the remainder of the spring semester. The university previously announced distance instruction through at least April 13.Read more
Below, is the agenda for Monday's regularly scheduled Huntington City Council meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur the second, and fourth Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at city hall.
As a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus panic, Monday's regularly scheduled Huntington City Council meeting will be closed to the public. However, in accordance with West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act, it will be broadcast live on Channel 24 on Xfinity Cable, and the city's Facebook page. Also, the meeting will be streamed live on the city's website.
Huntington - Mayor Steve Williams announced Wednesday the proposal of a tax and fee relief package to help all city residents, retail shops and restaurants weather the financial fallout from the COVID-19 coronavirus panic.
Huntington – Marshall Health, Mountain Health Network and the Cabell-Huntington Health Department will open a drive-through testing center at St. Mary’s Center for Education at 2853 5th Avenue, for individuals with a valid order from a physician to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirusRead more
A subset of end of civilization films inject a biological disease. Some ("Andromedia Strain") follow a "rare" outbreak; others jump into an overwhelmed zombie sick populace, and a few imagine a strain spreading from contacts with other worlds. Read more
Beginning Thursday, Cabell County public schools students will be provided access to the district's wireless access without having to enter the buildings. Read more
The Huntington Area Regional Chamber of Commerce has compiled a list of local restaurants that remain open, and are taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Below, is the agenda for Thursday's Mountwest Community and Technical College's Board of Governors meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 8 a.m. the third Thursday of the month during the academic year in Room G07A.
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