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Energy interests and environmentalists fight Biden oil lease plan from different sides

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to protect an endangered species of whale by scaling back an auction of oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico is being challenged by the oil industry, even as environmentalists go to court to stop the lease sale altogether. The conflicting federal lawsuits, one filed Thursday in Louisiana by oil interests, the other announced Friday in Washington by the organization Earthjustice, focus on a planned sale of oil and gas leases set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans. As originally proposed in March, the sale was to cover more ...

Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte turns 20

It wasn't always this way. Canned pumpkin and pie spices were relegated to the baking aisle when Starbucks began experimenting with an autumn drink that would replicate the success of the Peppermint Mocha, which took the winter holidays by storm in 2002. Customer surveys suggested chocolate ...

New dentist in Vienna

VIENNA — A new dentist has joined the practice of Dr. H. Talbott Tebay and Associates in Vienna. Dr. Larry Gamby is from Pickerington, Ohio, and is a distinguished graduate of the Army ROTC at Ohio State University with a bachelor’s in dental hygiene and a doctorate in dental surgery in ...

Inaugural InfluencHer Leadership Summit held

The first InfluencHer Leadership Summit organized by Building Bridges to Careers and the Marietta Community Foundation for middle-school girls aged 9-13 in Washington County was completed on Aug. 4. The summit brought together young minds and enthusiastic mentors for a day of skill building ...

Newspaper, reporters, advertising win awards

CHARLESTON — The Parkersburg News and Sentinel received five first-place awards in editorial and advertising in the West Virginia Press Association’sannual Better Newspapers Contest. Steven Allen Adams, the newspaper’s Capitol reporter in Charleston, received a First Place in the Best ...

WVU Medicine Camden Clark holds ceremony for nursing students

PARKERSBURG — A group of West Virginia University at Parkersburg nursing students have made a commitment to WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center in order to grow and learn as they work to become nurses. A group of 27 students were accepted into the inaugural group in the WVU Medicine ...