By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com Groundbreaking ceremonies will take place Saturday for Canaan Valley Institutes new $8 million Research and Education Center, which will use new green technology to make it completely self-sustaining, from power production to wastewater treatment.

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER WASHINGTON -- Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the old-fashioned way - - with paper and pencil.

By GEORGE HOHMANN WILLOW ISLAND - Allegheny Energy has completed a $105 million scrubber upgrade that reduces emissions at its 1,300-megawatt, coal- fired Pleasants Power Station. The upgrade sends 100 percent of flue gasses through a scrubber system and up a new 640-foot chimney.

By J. Miles Layton, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Dec. 24--One of Westover's Christmas wishes has been granted. Courtesy of a funding request from U.S. Representative Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.Va., Westover will receive $825,000 to upgrade its sewer system.

By Tom Searls tomsearls@wvgazette.com U.S. senat