Dr. Frank Alderman is a member of the four-person team that founded MedExpress more than a decade ago in Morgantown’s Wharf District. With Alderman as CEO, the team of health care innovators expanded its quick-care facilities to employ 3,000 people. In July 2014 the company will open its 130th facility with a new location in Michigan, extending services to 10…
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West Virginia’s young people are fleeing the state. How do we get them to return? Kent Spellman, executive director of the West Virginia Community Development Hub, is at the United Mine Workers Association headquarters in Matewan, speaking to a group of 75 people. He’s at the front of a room dotted with old photographs of coal miners, next to oversized…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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