Mason County News Archives

“We're going to have 10 miles coming out of Mason county, and we're going all the way to Buffalo Bridge in Putnam County with funding and we'll have 12 miles left”

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 ; 06:38 PM Updated Tuesday, April 29, 2008 ; 10:43 PM County leaders say European companies are inquiring about setting up shop in the county. via WOWK

“Provisions were written into the loan documents that said any sale of the company would result in the loan being paid off”

Today's American Electric Power earnings conference call could be especially interesting. via Charleston Daily Mail

“How can you raise gas taxes when gas is $3.60 and going toward $4 (a gallon)?”

During the 2008 session, the state Legislature authorized the West Virginia Department of Transportation to enter into public-private partnerships to build roads. via The State Journal

“The Virginia governor had said that coal was vital to the state's future energy needs and that the new plant was in the public's best interest”

Jeri Matheney, corporate communications representative for American Electric Power, says she was surprised by Virginia's rejection of AEP's plan to build a $2.23 billion, 629-megawatt, clean coal-fired plant in ... via Register-herald.com

“I still want my $15,000. His bankruptcy does not protect illegal acts.”

A Point Pleasant attorney faces possible disciplinary action for his mishandling of a settlement awarded to a Mason County physician in a 2001 civil case. via The West Virginia Record

Story by Steve McGehee Email Bio Other Stories by Steve McGehee The invitations were limited to eight drivers. via WVNS-TV

Next school year students in Wood County will have the opportunity to become more globally aware- first hand! The West Virginia College Board has announced that Wood and Mason counties have been added to the ... via WTAP-TV Parkersburg

“This (proposal) represents an extraordinary risk that we cannot allow the ratepayers of Virginia in APCo's service territory to assume”

Published 04/15/2008 By Staff Power regulatory officials in Richmond officially said no Tuesday to a proposed $2.3 billion coal-fired plant by Appalachian Power Co. via Times-News Online

About Bray Cary Bray Cary is president and CEO of West Virginia Media, a multi-media communications company that reaches all of West Virginia. via The State Journal

“Even though furniture was going down dramatically, we had kind of a buffer there with these other industries going up”

Global economics and the housing bust are throwing a relentless string of problems at the mom-and-pop sawmills and logging companies that make up much of the nation's hardwood lumber industry. via The Tennessean

“We haven't seen this amount of decline year in and year out since the early part of the (20th) century.”

The hardwood lumber industry is battling global economics and the U.S. housing slump. via The Ledger