Chris Lawrence
Host, West Virginia Morning News and West Virginia Outdoors at West Virginia MetroNews
Chris Lawrence, host of the West Virginia Morning News and West Virginia Outdoors radio shows on the MetroNews Radio Network and 580 WCHS Radio
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2 days ago |
wvmetronews.com | Chris Lawrence
ELKINS, W.Va. — The Randolph County Board of Education has learned they will be the target of a State of Emergency declaration when the West Virginia Board of Education meets next week in Charleston. Correspondence from the state department was read at the local board’s meeting in Elkins Tuesday night.
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2 days ago |
wvmetronews.com | Chris Lawrence
KEYSER, W.Va. — Mineral County Delegate Gary Howell says businesses in neighboring states are ripe for the picking. Howell and other lawmakers have been personally reaching out to the CEO’s of various companies and courting them to relocate to West Virginia. Howell’s actions were specifically targeted toward neighboring Maryland where the legislature recently enacted a three-percent sales tax on information technology.
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3 days ago |
wvmetronews.com | Chris Lawrence
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The top man with West Virginia’s coal industry said recently announced layoffs are no surprise amid a weakening global market for coal. Chris Hamilton, President of the West Virginia Coal Association indicated the price worldwide for both steam coal and met coal has been impacted by recent events. “Prices internationally are falling like a rock right now and there’s a real weak market on top of that,” said Hamilton.
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4 days ago |
wvmetronews.com | Chris Lawrence
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The spring burning restrictions were lifted as of this past Sunday, but the West Virginia Division of Forestry still urges caution with any outdoor burning. “Individuals can burn now whenever they choose, but folks are still required to have a 10-foot safety strip around their burn pile and they can only burn natural debris generated from their own property. They do still need to stay with the fire the entire time,” said Division of Forestry Director Jeremy Jones.
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4 days ago |
wvmetronews.com | Chris Lawrence
BECKLEY, W.Va. — What was supposed to be one of the most joyous times in life for students at Woodrow Wilson High School on Saturday, devolved into a brawl on the lawn of the Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley. As graduates exited the convention center, diplomas in hand and caps and gowns still on, a fight broke out involving a large number of people.
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