WV Press Association

@WVPress

The West Virginia Press Association is a non-profit trade association representing the daily and weekly #WVNewspapers. #WV #WVPress #HowToReachWV #KnowWV

Charleston, WV

Joined July 2012

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WV Press Association@WVPress · 20 h

Editorial: Too far gone? "Providing safe corridors of transportation should always be among the state’s priorities, no matter who is governor or in the Legislature." Read more in The Weirton Daily Times: weirtondailytimes.com/opinion/editor…

WVPress's tweet card. If anyone in our area needed a reminder that the efforts to maintain our state’s roadways has been ridiculously underfunded, all they had to do was listen to the discussions during last week’s Brooke...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · 51 m

Cannelton Hollow sewer repairs remain in limbo “You can’t enjoy being outside; it’s sickening at times.” By Steve Keenan, The Register-Herald register-herald.com/news/local_new…

WVPress's tweet card. CANNELTON — Like many of her neighbors, Donna Petry longs for a solution to ongoing issues with sewage lines damaged by flooding in western Fayette County in mid-August 2022.

WV Press Association@WVPress · 16 h

"Cryptids are the new coal' as Veggie Man Day returns to Fairmont By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian timeswv.com/news/local_new…

WVPress's tweet card. FAIRMONT — Upstairs on the second floor of the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, the Braxton County Monster lurked.

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WV Press Association@WVPress · 18 h

West Virginia ag commissioner estimates '2 to 3 years' for beef prices to stabilize By Damian Phillips, WV News wvnews.com/statejournal/n…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · 22 h

West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine reps visit Wood County Commission “We have 46 alumni practicing in Wood County alone.” By Brett Dunlap, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel newsandsentinel.com/news/business/…

WVPress's tweet image. West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine reps visit Wood County Commission
“We have 46 alumni practicing in Wood County alone.”

By Brett Dunlap, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
newsandsentinel.com/news/business/…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 21

Already struggling WV hospitals brace for costly budget reconciliation law impacts By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail wvgazettemail.com/news/health/al…

WVPress's tweet card. The West Virginia Hospital Association and independent analysts predict costly consequences from sweeping Medicaid cuts built into the Republican budget reconciliation law, the One Big Beautiful Bill...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 18

Kroger Union Holds Protest to Oppose Gassaway Store Closure Read more in Braxton Citizens' News: bcn-news.com/2025/07/17/kro…

WVPress's tweet card. On Wednesday United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union announced held a protest and press conference to oppose the closure of the Gassaway Kroger store located at 2908 State[Read More...]

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 18

New superintendent: Uncertainty surrounds possible cuts in school funding By Bruce Justice, Mingo Messenger mingomessenger.com/news/article_6…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 18

Jefferson County Development Authority's board dissolved; County Commission to reconfigure it in August By Erik Anderson, Spirit of Jefferson spiritofjefferson.com/news/article_1…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 18

WV Hive CO.STARTERS Four-Part Bootcamp Begins July 21 Successful Local Entrepreneurs Say It Was The Best $50 They Invested Read more: wvpress.org/wvpa-sharing/w…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 18

Charles Towers evacuated; multiple instances of storm damage By Toni Milbourne, The Journal journal-news.net/news/environme…

WVPress's tweet card. CHARLES TOWN — Storms arrived with a vengeance in the Eastern Panhandle Wednesday evening, bringing significant damage to the Charles Town area specifically.

WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 17

Pioneer Days ~ maintaining traditions By Suzanne Stewart, The Pocahontas Times Read more: pocahontastimes.com/pioneer-days-m…

WVPress's tweet card. Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer The weekend included music, food, art and parades – and it was all fun. Marlinton became a festival town again last week with the return of Pioneer Days, a tradition that...

WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 17

‘Sacrificial lamb’: Family of man beaten to death at SRJ hopes he inspires change By Ashley Perham, HD Media herald-dispatch.com/news/sacrifici…

WVPress's tweet card. On March 1, 2022, Quantez Burks, 37, died at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County after being brutally beaten by correctional officers in a room with no security cameras. His family was told...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 17

New Martinsville Family Attends HALT Fentanyl Act Signing At The White House By Derek Redd, The Intelligencer theintelligencer.net/news/top-headl…

WVPress's tweet card. Diana Estep understands that the HALT Fentanyl Act she watched President Donald Trump sign Wednesday at the White House won’t bring back her son Drew, who died of fentanyl poisoning in 2020 at just...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 17

West Virginia Senators Capito, Justice vote in favor of rescissions package By Charles Young, WV News wvnews.com/news/wvnews/we…

WVPress's tweet card. WASHINGTON (WV News) — West Virginia Republican Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice both voted Wednesday to pass the more than $9 billion package requested by President Donald Trump

WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 17

GameChanger Board of Directors to Decide on Allocating $1 Million+ for Launch of Innovative Prevention Education Platform: GameChanger University New Initiative Will Serve All West Virginia Students—Public, Private, and Homeschooled Read more: wvpress.org/breaking-news/…

WVPress's tweet image. GameChanger Board of Directors to Decide on Allocating $1 Million+ for Launch of Innovative Prevention Education Platform: GameChanger University
New Initiative Will Serve All West Virginia Students—Public, Private, and Homeschooled

Read more: wvpress.org/breaking-news/…

WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 16

Statue Unveiled Hundreds celebrate Rosie’s big day By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain theintermountain.com/news/local-new…

WVPress's tweet image. Statue Unveiled
Hundreds celebrate Rosie’s big day

By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain
theintermountain.com/news/local-new…

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 16

Federal appeals court sides with West Virginia on near-total ban on medication abortion By Steven Allen Adams for The Weirton Daily Times weirtondailytimes.com/news/local-new…

WVPress's tweet card. CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey praised a decision made Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a case brought when he was attorney general challenging West Virginia’s near-total ban on abortion and...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 16

Commuter rail growth plan calls Hancock station a distant possibility By Kate Shunney, The Morgan Messenger morganmessenger.com/2025/07/15/com…

WVPress's tweet card. by Kate Shunney A multi-year public planning effort for Maryland’s commuter train service has resulted in the creation of a “MARC Growth and Transformation Plan” which was published in late June by...

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WV Press Association@WVPress · Jul 16

State assumes control of McDowell County prison By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph bdtonline.com/news/state-ass…

WVPress's tweet card. WELCH — The Stevens Correctional Center in McDowell County is now under the control of the West Virginia Division of Corrections.

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