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Justice promises Greenbrier employees won’t lose health insurance

Gov. Jim Justice, whose family owns The Greenbrier Hotel Corp., promised employees at the resort won’t go without health insurance. “There is no way that the great union employees at The Greenbrier are going to go without insurance. There is no possible way,” Justice said in a statewide administration briefing in response to a question by WCHS television reporter Bob Aaron. “And I’ll promise you to the good lord above that insurance payments have been made and were being made on a regular basis just like we’ve done in the past in many ways.” However, in response to a ...

Fairmont State’s Middle College program accepting donations for students

The first group of teens enrolled in Fairmont State’s Middle College program have moved onto campus. And like any student heading off to pursue their education, they are need of all types of items to ease the transition. The new program provides youth in foster care with safety, ...

The Dominion Post takes multiple awards at West Virginia Press Association Conference

The Dominion Post Advertising Department took home Best Advertisement of the Year honors at the recent West Virginia Press Association Conference, where awards were announced for the Advertising and Editorial Contest.  The Advertising staff won seven awards, including four first-place honors. One of those was for Best Theme Pages for the WVU Football Rally Posters that are inserted into The Dominion Post each week of the West Virginia University football season.  Those posters also won Best Advertisement of the Year for the newspaper.  “I’m very proud of our ...

MUB work week

Street Repair Long Alley road repair (AW-2631) Road Repair Fairchance Road near Blaney Hollow Road (working in DOH ROW) 692 North High St. sidewalk repair North High Street at Maidan Lane, sidewalk repair University Avenue at 1st Street, road repair 1017 Charles Ave., ...

This week in West Virginia history

WV Humanities Council The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Aug. 4, 1824: John Jay Jackson Jr. was born near Parkersburg. Jackson was a prominent judge who became ...

PEIA pauses pilot program supporting cost of weight loss drugs

West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency for a short time ran a pilot program to support more than a thousand members with the costs of drugs to fight obesity, where the state’s statistics rank worst in the nation. But, like other states, West Virginia was challenged by the expense of the drugs. PEIA paused the pilot program this past March 15, honoring existing pre-authorizations through June 30, the end of the fiscal year, or the term of the authorization, whichever was longer. “The reasons for pausing the program were multifaceted and included cost, supply ...