Alex Wiederspiel

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — After 25 years, the West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival that marks the calendar one Saturday in September every year in Monongalia County will surpass $500,000 in donations back to the local community and the state of West…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The deadline to apply with FEMA will pass at the end of the business day Tuesday for victims of late July flooding in northern West Virginia. Applicants from Marshall, Marion, Wetzel, and Harrison Counties, can still appeal a FEMA…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee said the school must accept its role in leading the way towards a better economy for all West Virginia during his annual State of the University address. “It is really time we start…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some MountainFest attendees got the chance to meet a living legend this weekend. No, not Hank Jr. or George Thorgood. Rather, they could meet a West Virginia legend — Lily the English Bulldog. She has logged over 20,000 miles with…

RAINELLE, W.Va. — Chris Schroeder of the Appalachia Service Project probably couldn’t have predicted he’d spend the better part of the last year in the Greenbrier County town of Rainelle. Nor could he have predicted how it might impact him. “I feel…

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — Nicholas County Board of Education President Gus Penix called the pending litigation against the State Board of Education “unfortunate” in a statement released to MetroNews Thursday morning. “It is unfortunate that we had to…

RAINELLE, W.Va. — The one year anniversary and memorial service Friday in Rainelle was just as much about the four people lost in the June 23, 2016 floods as it was about those who are helping build Rainelle’s future. One of those people is…

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — I’m not a West Virginian. Or, at least, I wasn’t this time last year. Despite having lived in the state for nearly 9 years, having lived in Morgantown, Clarksburg, Summersville, later Fairmont, and now Morgantown again, I never…

BELVA, W.Va. — A border community that exists in both Fayette and Nicholas counties saw the floods of June 23, 2016 in very different ways. “It started coming up that evening, but I always thought it would stop,” Adam Brown, owner of Brown’s Service…

BIRCH RIVER, W.Va. — Malisia and Harold “Junior” Holmes believe their decision on June 22, 2016 was an act of God. That was the day they had chosen to visit friends and family in Ohio. They weren’t in Birch River (population of 107 in 2010) when the…

RAINELLE, W.Va. — Nearing the one-year anniversary of historic flooding that claimed 23 lives throughout the state, Rainelle’s “Mayor Andy” said she’s going to take a brief pause for reflection later this week. “You got to keep moving, and you hope…

RICHWOOD, W.Va. — A Nicholas County man is facing a felony charge after police say he posted a threat online against Nicholas County School Superintendent Dr. Donna Burge-Tetrick. James “Jim” Swartz Jr., 69, of Leivasy, faces one felony count of…

RICHWOOD, W.Va. — The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh and other banking institutions are providing West Virginia’s flood zone with $2.3 million in funding in flood recovering efforts. The announcement was made in Richwood Tuesday which included…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A short comment during Governor Jim Justice’s State of the State address regarding the murky future of schools in the Nicholas County town of Richwood is drawing both praise and criticism, depending on who you ask. “One of the…

SEWELL VALLEY, W.Va. — The pending abandonment of more than six miles of rail line in Greenbrier County is good news for the leaders of the Meadow River Trail project. “We knew that we needed to get the last 6.4 miles of the rail line, which ended in…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — A number of high school students in Harrison County are teaming up with students in Nicholas County to raise money for students impacted by the floods of June 23, but it is not your typical fundraiser. Trina Runner, the business…