There’s still time to order your strawberries from the Morgantown High School Foundation. In fact, it’s never been easier, foundation member Stephanie Lorenze said. These days, you’ll find a QR […]
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‘This is my Christmas — right here’: Operation Santa Claus founder Sylvia Chico dies
The staff at William R. Sharp Jr. Hospital turned the Santa hat on Sylvia Chico that snowy December day back in 2016. She twinkled like the tree at Rockefeller Center […]
‘I don’t want this to be our legacy’
GRANT TOWN — Michael Whitten’s dad didn’t get rich from coal. While the Boone County miner was able to make an adequate living for his family during the boom years […]
Foundation of life: After losing his daughter and wife to illness and suicide, Jon LaPlante rebuilds to help others
In many ways, this story is about a photograph. The two women in this particular picture are regarding the lens with smiles and dancing eyes. It’s warm, and hardly feels […]
Holding court — at Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center
That’s the way the ball bounces, at the Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center. Or rather, that’s the way the ball is going to bounce at the Hazel and J.W. […]
Area couple ready to open their doors to war refugees
“Home is where the heart is” — that’s not just needlepoint on a pillow for Hilda Heady. In fact, the retired WVU social worker and rural health administrator wants to […]
Mon Schools: Each zero means a big leap to ‘new normal’
Donna Talerico has never been happier to see such low marks in Monongalia County’s school system. “It’s like night and day,” she said. The deputy superintendent of schools was talking […]
‘John was my buddy’: Family, friends gather to say goodbye to Mon lawmaker John Pyles
Two TV screens positioned above the communion table at Wesley United Methodist Church told an American tale Monday morning. The telling was in the form of an endless loop of […]
John Pyles: A life of songs and public service
Without a stopwatch and a film crew to prove it, there’s no way of knowing for sure if John Pyles had broken any Olympic sprinting records along High Street in […]
Mon schools has another week of single-digit COVID cases: ‘They’re doing what they need to do, to keep safe’
Susan Haslebacher was an example of economy in motion last spring at Suncrest Middle School. It was the first day of a COVID vaccine clinic for students aged 12 to […]
