PARKERSBURG — WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center hosted its latest Dinner with the Docs event Sept. 22, focusing on "Surgical Procedures Today: From Traditional to Robotics," at the Grand Pointe Conference Center in Vienna. A multidisciplinary panel of surgeons discussed the ...
PARKERSBURG - A Jackson County company has been recognized for one of the five coolest things made in the state by the West Virginia Manufacturers Association. Constellium of Ravenswood makes high-performance aluminum alloys used in the launch vehicle and spacecraft flown by astronauts in the Artemis program that will take the United States back to the moon, perhaps by the end of the decade. The Manufacturers Association on Monday announced the results of its first Coolest Thing Made in West Virginia Contest. From 3,200 votes, the top 5 were Constellium and: Silas Young, 13, ...
CHARLESTON - Advocates for West Virginia's manufacturing industry are educating companies to look at their fellow manufacturers for the supplies they need instead of relying on foreign imports. The West Virginia Manufacturer's Association is working with a new group, ReshoreWV, to team up ...
CHARLESTON – A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Washington, W.Va., residents who say their property was contaminated by hazardous materials – including forever chemicals – from a landfill used by Chemours. Filed Sept. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the complaint alleges that hazardous chemicals including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, were released from the landfill and migrated through surrounding soil, groundwater and other pathways, according to a release from R. Booth Goodwin II, one ...
During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first guess was our measurement was off or the pipe tally was wrong. Well records and history were reviewed. Phone calls were made to confirm, with well records at the corporate office. An entire morning was wasted trying to solve the problem. I was standing on the rig floor when one of the new rig hands ...
PARKERSBURG – Local nature photographer Shannon R. Hammer will exhibit her photography at WesBanco Bank during September. Hammer is an independent photographer and visual artist. “My photographs are often mistaken for the oil canvas paintings from long ago,” Hammer said. Like those ...
