Former longtime college athletic administrator, play-by-play announcer and West Virginia native Frank Giardina died Sunday morning following a several year battle with health issues.
Frank Giardina during his days as Marshall play-by-play announcer. (Photo/Marshall University)
Giardina, who just recently turned 72, spent his early childhood in McDowell County. The coal mining industry brought his family to the Kanawha Valley. Giardina graduated from DuPont High School.
From there it was on to

HARMAN, W.Va. — So far so good at the new look Harman School in Randolph County.
The school year got started at in September under new management after the Randolph County School Board chose to close the public school. Now established as a private, Christian School, administrator Brad Spencer said it’s gone remarkably well.
“We have 20 full time students, which is an amazing number to have to start with. Plus we’ve got an incredible staff with a lot of experienced public school teachers and it’s

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Officials with the Mountaineer Food Bank are excited about the possibilities they now have on the west side of Charleston. Charleston City Council approved the transfer last week of a project to renovate the former Save-A-Lot grocery store to the food bank after the after previous plans to repurpose the now closed store fell through.
Chad Morrison
The city needed to handle the transfer because money for the project had been granted through the American Rescue Plan.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The St. Albans native tasked with taking over the Charleston Police Department is ready to take this step.
Jason Webb
46-year-old Jason Webb, who has been Deputy Police Chief since February 2024, learned last week that he will be elevated to the role of police chief on October 22. He replaces outgoing Chief Scott Dempsey, who will be retiring after 26 years within the Charleston Police Department.
A 21-year veteran on the police force, Webb applied for the open chief’s

CHEAT LAKE, W.Va. — The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office confirms that a fatal crash mid-morning shut down Interstate-68.
The wreck happened at Exit 10 at around 9 a.m., according to the Monongalia County Emergency Management Agency. First responders and deputies responded to the scene. The interstate reopened just before 11 a.m.
The sheriff’s office did not provide any more details beyond it being a “fatal crash and will be under investigation for a while” and that “updates will be made

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Contractors Association of West Virginia CEO Jason Pizatella wants people to remember the importance of roads in an era of exciting artificial intelligence announcements in the Mountain State.
Jason Pizatella
Pizatella recently published an Op-Ed on that very topic. West Virginia has benefitted from several artificial intelligence investments lately, including a multi-billion-dollar pledge by Anthropic in Nscale’s Monarch Compute Campus in development in Mason County.
“What I