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Public Input Session for Comprehensive Plan Update On June 5

County Continues Restructure of Ambulance Department

Summer Construction at Shepherd University

Local Residents Aim To Preserve Historic Home In Harpers Ferry

Finding Balance in Conflict

Local Herbalist Focuses on Training & Self-Direction

Some Bills That Failed in the Legislature This Year – Part 2

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Bills Passed in the 2023 WV Legislative Session

April, 2023 Tagged With: 2023 Legislative Session, Gun Control, In Print Apr 2023, insulin, PFAS, taxes, West Virginia Legislature

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March 11 was the end of the sixty day legislative session for 2023. Legislators went home having passed 333 bills (293 bills passed in 2022). The Governor has signed nearly one-third of these bills and is expected to sign the remainder soon (he signed all but 13 bills passed in 2022). Absent a special session called by the Governor, our legislators will next meet in January 2024 to vote on new legislation. Read the Full Story >>

Understanding Mental Health by Tearing Down Some Walls

October, 2019 Tagged With: Gun Control, Mental Health

Carol Williams

Diagnosing mental health disorders isn’t one of those easy professions, like, for example, brain surgery or rocket science. Enviably, those two specialties have clear and visible parameters for measuring success and failure, whereas defining “mental health” is fluid and debatable, at times dependent on functional and social norms. The diagnostic manual that defines criteria for Read the Full Story >>

Area School Systems Eye New Year on the Horizon

August, 2018 Tagged With: Arthena Roper, Berkeley County Schools, Bondy Shay Gibson, Gun Control, Jefferson County Schools

With schools slated to re-open on August 20, both Jefferson and Berkeley County (WV) school systems are continuing to see an upward trend in enrollment, which they are juggling while rolling out new programs for both students and faculty. Read the Full Story >>

March for Our Lives Solidarity Events Occur | Schools Prepared for Future Threats

April, 2018 Tagged With: Bondy Shay Gibson, Gun Control, March For Our Lives, protest, school safety

Chilly winds and winter-like temperatures didn’t deter approximately 600 students from participating in a demonstration in front of Washington High School (Jefferson County, WV) on March 14, one month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which claimed 17 lives. Read the Full Story >>

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