CHARLESTON — Jill Upson now is wearing two hats in state government.

HUNTINGTON — Marshall Rises, the largest fundraising campaign in Marshall University history, has raised more than $176 million in support of the university, the Marshall University Foundation recently announced.

CHARLESTON — As Marshall University’s commercial pilot bachelor’s degree program enters its second year, plans are already in the works to build a second hangar to accommodate its growing fleet of training aircraft and to launch a new cycle of student pilot training during the 2023 spring semester.

HUNTINGTON — A cancer diagnosis is a difficult thing to bear as a kid, which is why United Bank has joined forces with Marshall University Athletics to support the Hoops Family Children’s Hospital through the United for Hoops program.

HUNTINGTON — A local expert stressed Wednesday the importance of brownfields projects for communities throughout West Virginia while testifying before a congressional committee.

MADISON — A Boone County-based program was named the best in West Virginia.

DANVILLE — Kenneth Weaver has owned the iconic Park Avenue Restaurant for a little over a year.

BALD KNOB — A Bald Knob man was charged with possession with intent to deliver fentanyl.

Boone Memorial Health’s Brighter Futures program held a picnic for employees and clients at Madison City Park on Sept. 30, 2022.

RACINE — Festival goers were treated to tons of fun on Sept. 24 at Racine, where the Big Coal Heritage Festival welcomed local crafters, food vendors and entertainers to provide a family friendly day of recreation to guests.

HUNTINGTON — With the prevalence of a certain synthetic opioid rising across the nation, West Virginia’s attorney general this month questioned what the federal government is doing to stop it.

ALUM CREEK — Ten-year-old Cassidy, a fifth-grader at Ramage Elementary School in Boone County, is no stranger to crayfish. Her house is near a river, where she and her brothers regularly sift through the water and flip over rocks to find the little critters.

CHARLESTON — All of West Virginia is a tax reform battlefield for Gov. Jim Justice and state Senate majority leaders.

HUNTINGTON — A $13.8 million gift from the state to Marshall University will supply the remaining balance needed to build a baseball stadium near campus.

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died. Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Tennessee. She was 90. Her compositions reflected her pride in her humble background and spoke frankly of her experiences as a woman and mother in Appalachia on such hits as “Coal Miner’s Daughter," “You Ain’t Woman Enough” and “The Pill.” Her bestselling 1976 autobiography was made into a movie, with Sissy Spacek winning an Oscar for her portrayal of Lynn. Lynn wrote unfiltered songs about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control that sometimes got her in trouble with radio programmers.

HUNTINGTON — Leaders in the recovery community met in Huntington last week for a conference to discuss how substance use disorder is causing multigenerational trauma, specifically for West Virginia’s youth.

CHARLESTON — Six years after West Virginia utility regulators approved an annual surcharge mechanism for West Virginia American Water infrastructure investments, the company says its infrastructure replacements will never end.

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

HUNTINGTON — During his investiture last week, Marshall University President Brad D. Smith committed to eliminating student debt for those who graduate over the next decade.

HUNTINGTON — Addiction science specialists at Marshall University say new research shows an individual’s cortisol levels might be able to predict how likely they are to succeed in substance use disorder recovery.

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HUNTINGTON — State and federal leaders in West Virginia are questioning several major credit card companies that have plans to track firearm purchases.

HUNTINGTON — When Marshall University students are working in the microbiology teaching lab in the Department of Biological Sciences, they’ll now be able to capture images of their samples and download them using tablets that are attached to the microscopes themselves.

MOUNT GAY — Pamela L. Alderman, Ed.D, received a new, three-year contract last week as president of Southern WV Community & Technical College.

HUNTINGTON — The Thrasher Group recently established the Thrasher Group Scholarship to support Marshall University students in the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences.

HUNTINGTON — West Virginia is set to receive $44.3 million in grants and an increase in other resources from the White House to help its effort in combating — and eventually ending — the opioid crisis.

MADISON — Peoples Bank had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its remodeled Madison location on Sept. 21.

MADISON — A Madison woman was charged in relation to a dumpster fire that police say caused approximately $7,000 in damages.

MADISON — At Boone Memorial Health, there’s a philosophy that making people healthier doesn’t just mean taking care of them after they get sick.

MOUNT GAY — Southern West Virginia Community & Technical College’s Community Trunk or Treat was a massive success, with thousands visiting campus to take part in the festivities.

MADISON — The Madison Rotary club met on Sept. 22 at Park Avenue Restaurant, where the club welcomed Navy Veteran and Rotary District 7545 Governor Dan McCarthy.

HUNTINGTON — While West Virginia has been working to solve issues within its foster care system, state lawmakers were warned this month of another concern: a shortage of attorneys to represent children in court.

BOONE COUNTY — Class A No. 4 Van remained undefeated, while Sherman took a road loss on Sept. 23.

Pioneering naturalist John Muir once wrote that “Wildness is a necessity ... mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency fund finished fiscal year 2022 with an almost $92 million loss, board members learned Thursday.