News Release

More than 1,000 K-12 students took part in WVU’s 37th annual Pumpkin Drop, where only 23 of 276 pumpkins survived the 11-story fall.

Explore West Virginia history for Nov. 1–7, including the 1985 floods, the Battle of Droop Mountain and the lives of Medal of Honor recipients.

At WVU’s Insect Zoo, visitors can hold spiny stick insects, meet hissing cockroaches and discover a different side of creatures they might otherwise fear.

West Virginia will mail energy-assistance applications beginning November 2. Pre-LIEAP applications are due November 25, with limited funding awarded first come, first served.

Buckhannon-Upshur High School students helped hang a drug prevention banner for Red Ribbon Week, as Upshur County Schools holds discussions and activities in every school.

WVU communication studies professor Elizabeth Cohen explains why audiences seek out horror films, from morbid curiosity to the comfort of familiar scares.

West Virginia’s new cryptids license plate goes on sale November 2 at every DMV office statewide. Artist Jesse Corlis designed the plate, which features Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster and seven other creatures.

Upshur houses of worship, eligible nonprofits and local governments have until November 6 to request FEMA aid for July storm damage. Some nonprofits must also apply for an SBA loan; that December 16 deadline does not extend FEMA’s.

The CAC Gallery holds a free reception for its third annual BOOOOckhannon exhibition of community members’ spooky art Friday, Oct. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 48 East Main Street in Buckhannon.

Halloween falls on Saturday, October 31, and West Virginia officers will be watching for impaired drivers. State highway safety officials urge people who plan to drink to arrange a sober ride.