Teays Valley News

More than 600 people lined up and some waited more than five hours to get their children vaccinated against the swine flu at a clinic in Putnam County.

American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Nitro Moose Lodge 656, 101 First Ave., Nitro.

Children can have breakfast with their favorite storybook princesses during a special event in Putnam County.

A proposed agreement to put the city of Nitro under the jurisdiction of the Putnam County Health Department is still on the table after a Tuesday night meeting between city and county officials.

Know those old cell phones you have knocking around in your kitchen junk drawer? Verizon Wireless has a home for them.

A cable company denies it fired a black man because of his race and says a lawsuit he filed against the company should be dismissed.

The West Virginia Lottery has received notification that Verizon will credit the state $57,655 because of an April 29 communications system outage that affected 689 lottery retailers for 21 1/2 hours, said John Myers, the lottery's assistant director.

The West Virginia Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group will have a "meet and greet" event Thursday at Bible Center Church, Southridge Campus.

Putnam Chamber Network of Women will host the fourth event in its wellness series from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct.

Few West Virginians commute to work by bicycle. Even fewer would even think of meeting at 5:30 in the morning to ride 25 miles from Putnam County to the state Capitol, and then back in the evening.

Roy Elswick stands behind his Teays Valley Biscuit Mix, literally and figuratively, at the Fraziers Bottom factory.

A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the FamilyCare Health Center is tentatively scheduled for next month - a little late.

A member of the Hurricane Fire Department has been charged with armed robbery and malicious wounding.

Health experts say people should be concerned, but not to the point of panic. While other states have experienced deaths related to the H-1-N-1 Virus, they knew it would eventually come to West Virginia.

Property tax rates vary across Putnam County. For example, on a $100,000 house in Eleanor, the bond would take the tax on that home to about $922. "The same tax on that house currently is 822.72, a difference of 100.20, and a monthly basis that's 8.35 increase a taxpayer would see," says Bill Duncan, Treasurer of Putnam County Schools.

Costs are high and doctors are afraid of being sued and greedy lawyers are chomping at the bit.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department and State Police detachment at Winfield are conducting sobriety checkpoints this weekend.

Kroger has opened a fuel center at its store in Scott Depot at 302 Great Teays Blvd.

Local attorney Ashley French, senior associate with Huddleston Bolen LLP, has been elected president of the Kanawha County Bar Association for the 2009-10 term.

Putnam County commissioners approved a request to rezone a golf course on the new U.S. 35 for commercial development, even though the county's planning commission said it was a bad and potentially unsafe idea.