The Times West Virginian

Fleet of the future
Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Carpenters will still haul materials around in pickup trucks, but they will cost more. Nearly everybody else will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity.
Worth the search
The crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards was so sparse on a recent weeknight, its murmur so low, that you could hear clear across the field when a fan let out a disappointed wail at first pitch: “Where IS everybody?”
Yet Section 334, high above home plate, was humming — large groups of college-age kids, elderly couples, families with small children in Nick Markakis jerseys. And most of them had paid an almost quaint price for their seats: $8.
White House seeks input on education law
Embarking on a “listening tour,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan asked teachers, parents and students Tuesday how they would improve No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.
Duncan visited West Virginia, the first stop on a 15-state tour as the Obama administration prepares to try to overhaul the program.
Got a bad back?
Don Rose knows how to properly lift a box. It was the turning that got him in trouble.
“I lifted the right way, but I turned the wrong way,” said the Core resident, who hurt his back at his job as a coal miner lifting a 40-pound bag of rock dust. “When I turned to set it down, I didn’t move my feet. I just twisted my back.”
Earth Day every day
Karen McKee has been recycling for nearly two decades and also has helped her three daughters with environmental projects as a troop leader of Girl Scouts.
A closet fix
When it comes to closets, Julie Mills has a simple reason why people have trouble finding a particular outfit or pair of shoes.
“Basically, we have too many clothes,” Mills said. “We only wear about 20 percent of what we have in the closet. We have a favorite sweater and a favorite pair of jeans, but a lot of times, we buy things because there is a good sale but we didn’t necessarily need it.”
The big search
When Lindsay Marsh of Bridgeport was searching for her wedding gown, she had narrowed the choice down to two. One was at a Pittsburgh-area store and the other was at Coni & Franc in Morgantown.
She wanted a strapless dress, but the one she liked at Coni & Franc had a halter top. Not to worry.
Happy feet
Your poor little tootsies have been hibernating since October, hidden from the world in their own snug little world of thick socks and heavy boots.
And for a while, that was good.
VA hires vets
Derek Graner can scan a crowd of veterans and pick out those needing help.
The former Army sergeant developed post traumatic stress disorder in Iraq and knows the signs — the withdrawal, the restlessness, the distrust.
“Sometimes there is a certain look in their eye,” he said.

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