Hello! Throw away account, obviously, but i just accepted a job with the state today, and i have been smoking weed every day for ~ 2 years. Im around 300 pounds and 5'4, so that THC is probably not leaving my system. Im almost certain they are going to drug test, but i have always faked my previously because i want to continue using weed. I dont have a medical card, but im so scared of ruining this opportunity because ive still been smoking. What are the chances of being drug tested? Im so afraid ive ruined my chances with a really nice job. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thank you!

A lawsuit was filed against her in May, then refiled in June after she retaliated against a CPS supervisor in Marion County.

Based on my personal experience, I can say with absolute certainty that this woman has fostered an environment within the department where workers fear her. In my view, many of the changes she has made to the department have been detrimental to the children of this state. The fact that she is no longer in power is a great day for the families of West Virginia.

And if you don't think the department influences the mainstream media within the state, I believe you're wrong. There was barely any coverage of the lawsuit, and I expect they will quickly sweep her departure under the rug. The department hates to look bad in the media.

The department needs to be cleaned out. This is one of the few times I believe someone from outside the state—with no affiliations or connections to anyone within the department—needs to come in and clean house. In my opinion, the system has become corrupt and deeply dysfunctional, and outside intervention may be the only real solution.

I’ve lived in Raleigh/Boone/Kanawha/Putnam counties for most of my life outside of college & a few short term living abroad situations I was fortunate enough to experience. But my favorite thing to do is roadtrip to obscure places in WV. From the Mothman to exhibition mine, to spruce knob and our highly underrated FREE *state museum* I believe that’s what it’s called now, it used to be the Cultural Center- if you haven’t had a chance to visit you should consider it. It’s actually very well done, children love it and it bests several paid museums I’ve visited. I’ve enjoyed cranberry glades in the fall, summersville lake in the summer, hawks nest every chance I get, visited the steel driving man, paid respects to zona Hester shoe (shout out to Ruth Ann Musick) & every cave/tavern I could find but I need new ideas. Please share hidden gems I may have missed!

Hello,

Wife and I are visiting WV, Martinsburg area, in late October.
Would love to take my wife on a scenic train ride.
Ive seen a few options online but was wondering if you had a recommendation of which was better of the best.

2 adults, no kids.
Willing to drive a few hours if we need.
TIA

Having seen someone just post about a concert attended- are there any good ones coming up in WV or surrounding states in the next few months? Any genre really. Anyone else going to Zombie/Manson on the 29th in Burgettstown, PA?

Anyone know of a shop that's know as a lick & stick shop near ranson and Charles town.

I got a car with 19,000 and it's fine, all under warranty and new except I rock cracked my windshield and I'm worried it'll fail bc of that.

Going on a bicycle trip starting in Fayetteville and traveling up the Greenbrier River Trail and through some towns up to Morgantown in a few weeks. I’ll be cycling every day for a week or so, stopping in hotels along the way. Any tips about my trip or about the area to keep in mind? Or anything worth checking out along the way? Will be going along through Marlinton, through Elkins to Thomas then through Kingwood to Morgantown and doing my best to stay on trails or backroads to do my best to avoid dangers of the roads and will have some gear on my bike that will help identify approaching cars. Excited to come and just wanted to hear what you all have to say!

Open Fields Doctrine

On our family farm in Chambersburg PA a small trail developed over many many years from an adjoining wooded area on to our wooded section. Then what was a little trail became a larger and wider small road that allowed 4 wheeler access. My Father in Law didn't outright stop this and even after an intrusive neighbor died it continued with the help of a "Deputy Game Warden." My son and I started to fill in the gap with old woven wire fencing and major piles of brush, but it would be removed. And we suspect the local deputy was opening it for a lady to get her horse through and perhaps for some illegal hunting activity. We continued to pile brush on the area, but the trail blazing trespasser would build side trails that I would interweave old wire, fencing and brush through. I'd come back in a couple of weeks or a month and that would be reopened. One day the deputy who did NOT own the adjoining land installed a No Trespassing sign facing toward our farm. This was a big insult as the trespassers always came onto our farm and not the other way around. I took the offending sign and tossed it deeper into the adjoining property and that resulted in a visit to my farm house by the deputy telling me that he could get me for littering. I told him to get off the farm and stay off! I would not be intimidated. Then I called his supervisors and the issue seemed to cool off after that. Eventually when we had full control over the family farm we had a high voltage livestock fence installed and that solved the issue of trespassers for good. I never felt over those years that we had total privacy when virtually anyone could enter the property and that we could be monitored by the Game Commission. By the way... the way the deputy knew I had tossed the sign is that he had installed a camera to watch the little road he had been maintaining into our farm. I'm very pleased that there is still a little justice in this world and that these trespassing deputies are being dismissed! Where we now live deep in Appalachia the terrain is so tough and the people are not so inclined to work too hard at trespassing. Combined with many neighbors with large acreage and the fact that WV at least where we live is much less inclined to bother landowners with such intrusion it makes for a greater sense of privacy. We live is a very low population county and don't have nosy neighbors like we did on the farm in PA. If a neighbor was against hunting they could just report you and the game commission could enter your land even without known violations. I hope WV will follow PA and end the Open Fields Doctrine.

I saw another thread with this same question however it was locked for commenting.

I don’t have the answer but I do have a theory and wonder if someone can confirm or deny it.

i think the reason is similar to Indiana and Ohio being in the “midwest”. if you put yourselves in the mindset of the people of that time, most of the population and major cities were all in eastern Virginia. “North Virginia“ certainly makes so much more sense, especially when you consider that the northern panhandle is partially north of I-70 today and as far north as Pittsburgh and even New York City! But again, with the population mainly in the east, the separating counties would have all been part of “western Virginia“ even though part of “western Virginia“ stayed with Virginia. so you really had three parts if I understand the geography. the eastern part, which was east of the Appalachians, the western part, divided by the Appalachians but then was subdivided by the parts that left and the parts that stayed. So the northern parts of “western Virginia” became “West Virginia” and it doesn’t appear that much thought was given to the fact that the westernmost point stayed behind.

Remember, however many years ago it's been, when we'd just get a nice little summer shower to break the summer monotony? Something you'd just play through if you were outside when it hit?

I miss those.

The last few years, we were basically in a drought from mid July through almost October. Contrast that with this year where it's just been non-stop monsoons. I forgot what the "sunshine" icon even looks like on my weather app.

There used to be weather that existed between those two extremes.

Yeah, I know, climate change, but I can still complain about the symptoms.

“This is pretty much what we expected from the DEP,” said Lani Wean, the West Virginia field organizer for the nonprofit environmental group Moms Clean Air Force. “They have a pretty consistent pattern of approving permits like these and essentially ignoring community input and concerns.”

“(The West Virginia DEP’s) approval of this air permit represents a rollback of critical pollution safeguards put in place to keep families and children safe from the most damaging impacts of waste incineration. In addition to departing from decades of precedent, the decision also dismisses concerns of local residents and county officials,” said ORVI Chief of Staff Tom Torres in a news release. “With this permit, Clean-Seas West Virginia has reached a critical milestone. However, If its parent company’s past performance and the industry’s track record are any indication, the facility likely faces an uphill climb towards successful commercial operation."