Charleston’s volunteer-driven, low-power FM station brings an eclectic mix and local programming to your radio dial. It’s 8 p.m. on a Saturday, and Seth DiStefano is holed up in a small room on the eighth floor of the Union Building in downtown Charleston. The city below is dark and quiet but, up here, DiStefano likes to play the music loud….
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Everything Cheesecake in Martinsburg will satisfy your sweet tooth. Businesses that dish out baked goods are, well … sweet. And Everything Cheesecake in Martinsburg is about as sweet as they come. In 2014, Gerrardstown native Teresa Gibbons left her job as a Martinsburg City Police officer and, with her husband, Erin, opened a gourmet cheesecake bakery. Since then, Everything Cheesecake…
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Welch artist Tom Acosta draws inspiration from home. Tom Acosta doesn’t really know what drove him to become a painter. He had always been interested in art and, by the age of 14, he started teaching himself to paint. He was inspired by his childhood home in Welch and local artists Wood Nichols and Pete Ballard. After painting for almost…
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Brandon Dennison, WV Living’s inaugural West Virginian of the Year, sees what West Virginia is really missing. And it’s not just jobs and education.
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