Three years in, the boomer retirement wave brings challenges we still haven’t prepared for. But a boom in seasoned humans also brings benefits. When George Moore took the podium in the state capitol’s House Chamber in October 2012, he could have seen before him a room full of old folks. It was, after all, a meeting of the Silver Haired…
Read More
Recent Stories from the Magazine
$100 Million Makeover
A unique collaboration across towns in Jefferson County is revitalizing parts of the Eastern Panhandle. For a West Virginia history buff, Jefferson County in the Eastern Panhandle is a gold mine of Civil War details and state history. But a community can’t just bank on its battlefields and ghosts to keep streets paved and flower boxes blooming. Vibrant museums need…
Read More
Arthurdale Heritage
An organization dedicated to preserving a New Deal community is one of the state’s longest lasting nonprofits. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to keep a village from crumbling into dust, too. Running a nonprofit is never easy, but when it’s a historical nonprofit with a little-known mission, it can be daunting. Arthurdale Heritage,…
Read More
The Gift of Education
There’s a less visible and more insidious kind of brain drain facing the state. Are we failing to nurture our brightest kids? Morgantown elementary-level gifted teacher Patricia Wells remembers taking classes with the kid who was named valedictorian of her high school class. He never had to study. “But when he went to college, he didn’t even make it through…
Read More
Built to Last
Jarrett Construction Services celebrates its 15th anniversary. In 1999 John Jarrett started Jarrett Construction Services out of a bedroom in his Charleston home, with the idea of starting a business that was committed to excellence and customer-focused. “I had been working for a contractor and I thought it could be done better than the way we were doing it,” he…
Read More
- « Go to Previous Page
- Page 1
- Interim pages omitted …
- Page 333
- Page 334
- Page 335
- Page 336
- Page 337
- Interim pages omitted …
- Page 342
- Go to Next Page »