Editorâs note: This is the 386th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
UNTINGTON â For decades, from roughly the 1920s through the 1960s, local folks shopping for a new car knew exactly where to go â a stretch of downtown 4th Avenue between 4th Street and 7th Street. Known as âAutomobile Row,â the three-block stretch of street was home to a dozen or so automobile dealers.
Among them, at 611 4th Ave., was the Metropolitan Buick Co., owned by J.B. Rich.
A Texas native, Hez G. Ward graduated from Cornell University with a degree in business administration and hotel management. When he graduated he landed a job as a mail clerk at the Netherland-Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, rapidly advancing to assistant manager of the hotelâs front office. Later he was assistant zone manager for the Cincinnati regional office of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors.
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HUNTINGTON â Universities in West Virginia have begun making COVID-19 vaccines available to their students.
Marshall University health and safety officials have collaborated with the Cabell-Huntington Health Department to make free COVID-19 vaccinations available to Marshall students through clinics in Cabell County.
Students have two clinic options, which started Wednesday: St. Maryâs Education Center (tents in parking lot on the east end of the center), 2853 5th Ave. in Huntington, or the COVID-19 Vaccine Center (former Sears location on the south end of the Huntington Mall) in Barboursville. No appointment is necessary, and walk-ins will be accepted at both.
The St. Maryâs clinic is offered from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or until the daily vaccine supply runs out, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The clinic at the mall is offered from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., or until the daily vaccine supply runs out, Tuesdays through Fridays.
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HUNTINGTON â While Republicans say it wonât, health leaders in West Virginia say a bill passed by the state Senate last week means the end of syringe exchanges in the state, which has two of the worst HIV outbreaks in the country.
âIâm sorry that the misconception is this bill has sought compromise that would allow continued operation of syringe service programs,â said Dr. Michael Kilkenny, health officer for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department. âI do not see that harm reduction programs or syringe program aspects could continue under this if it becomes law.â
Senate Bill 334, passed by the Senate on March 9, establishes a licensing program within the state Department of Health and Human Resources for harm reduction programs operating syringe exchange programs.