Category: NewsWatch
Bluefield Shrine 51st Horse Show Kicks Off Thursday
Anna SaundersJul 15, 2019
BLUEFIELD, W.Va (WOAY) – The Bluefield Shrine Club is preparing for its annual horse show that kicks off on Thursday. The horse show is in its 51st year and it...
Mercer County Commissioner One of Twenty County Leaders Picked to Participate in National Program
Anna SaundersJul 15, 2019
MERCER COUNTY, W.Va (WOAY) – Mercer County Commissioner Greg Puckett will participate in a program put on by the National Association of Counties in two weeks....
West Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Visits Mercer County
Anna SaundersJul 15, 2019
MERCER COUNTY, W.Va (WOAY) – Woody Thrasher, a Republican candidate running for Governor of West Virginia visited Mercer County today to talk about the county’s...
Kids Learn About Engineering, Mineral Science
Kassie SimmonsJul 15, 2019
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WOAY) – Kids who may have recently learned how to tie shoes and ride a bike are now learning about STEM fields. “Children actually naturally...
Local Gym Celebrates One Year of Businesss
Kassie SimmonsJul 15, 2019
OAK HILL, W.Va. (WOAY) – Anytime Fitness is celebrating one year of business this week. Many say it takes two years for a business to really establish itself, but...
White Water Rafting: Safety Tips
Kassie SimmonsJul 15, 2019
FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WOAY) – Over the weekend, two rafting accidents could have ended tragically. In Pennsylvania, inexperienced rafters went over a waterfall...
Local Greenhouse Supports Animal Shelter
Kassie SimmonsJul 15, 2019
FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WOAY) – When thinking about the season coming to an end, Morris Greenhouses thought of a way to both sell plants and help the community....
Capito, Manchin Announce Funding for Marshall University Research
Tyler BarkerJul 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a grant of...
Nicholas County Man Bitten By Copperhead In His Home
Tyler BarkerJul 15, 2019
NICHOLAS COUNTY, WV (WOAY) – A man was bitten by a copperhead under his couch. According to the WV National Resources Police, a man in Nicholas County was at home...
Miners to advocate for money for black lung trust fund
Tyler BarkerJul 15, 2019
SOUTH WILLIAMSON, Ky. (AP) — As black lung disease surges in Appalachia, some coal miners are going to Washington, D.C., to lobby for restoration of a tax that coal...