Bayer to expand at Institute plant
Bayer Crop Science is increasing production capacity at its Institute plant to meet a growing demand for its Larvin insecticide.
Site leader Nick Crosby says the company plants to hire 24 workers and invest about $3.5 million in one of the plant's two units that make Larvin.
Crosby says Larvin has found a new market niche since the company reformulated it and began marketing it as a seed-treatment product.
Bayer historically has operated one unit for six months, shut it down and then operated the other one. The company now plans to operate both units all year.
Crosby says the changes will boost overall capacity by about 40 percent.
Ex-WVU provost Lang to be 'Brains' fundraiser
Former West Virginia University Provost Gerald Lang, who resigned in the wake of the Heather Bresch scandal, will earn more than $200,000 a year as a fundraiser for the school's "Bucks for Brains" campaign.
Lang will earn $206,580 recruiting donors for the research endowment program, WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead said Wednesday.
Lang resigned as WVU's chief academic officer June 30. An investigative panel found that he and former business school dean Stephen Sears were most at fault in the decision to award Bresch, Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter, a degree she didn't earn.
Lang had previously planned to teach, but will now take a professional leave of absence this fall, Lofstead said. Beginning in the spring of 2009, he "will work exclusively on [the Bucks for Brains] project."
Thai House to open bakery in Winfield
The Thai House in Dunbar is opening a bakery and coffee shop in Winfield.
The Thai House Restaurant Bakery and Coffee Shop, located at 3361 Winfield Road across the street from the Putnam County Court House, is scheduled to open Sept. 1.
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