FAIRMONT – Monroe Street is a key marketing artery in Fairmont these days, as the site of several events, including the town’s signature Feast of the Seven Fishes Festival every […]
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Local organizer seeks U.S. Congressional seat
MORGANTOWN – Longtime community activist Ace Parsi chose Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday to announce his run for U.S. Congress. Parsi, a Democrat, is seeking the 2nd District […]
Still Dreaming: Current unrest taken on in WVU MLK Unity Breakfast
MORGANTOWN – In do-or-die Bedford-Stuy back in the 1980s, nobody cared, necessarily, if you were a bright Black kid with all the potential in the world. Nobody cared, necessarily, if […]
‘Appalachian Soul Man’ goes national
MORGANTOWN – If you take in a gig by Aristotle Jones and his band, be prepared to settle in and be there for a while – not just for the […]
‘You’re always going to know where I stand’: Paul Prunty hailed for a life of service
FAIRMONT – Marion County was as Blue as it gets in the 1970s. The county trended a good 3-to-1 Democrat in those days – which is what made Paul Prunty, […]
United Mine Workers worries miners already hurt during NIOSH downturn
FAIRMONT – How many coal miners were harmed and it didn’t know it, during the recent Trump administration-led shutdown at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health? It depends […]
NIOSH employees reinstated
MORGANTOWN – Previously downsized employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were reinstated Wednesday by the Trump administration – including those at Morgantown’s NIOSH facility on Willowdale […]
Lydia Main filled prescriptions of unwavering work and unconditional love
MASONTOWN – Put away those pastoral-tinged “Mayberry” glasses for the moment, if you don’t mind, and settle in for a lesson on civics and sociology. Which is this: Being mayor […]
Dr. Summers Harrison: Medicine, music and moments with family and friends
MORGANTOWN – Sometimes, you have to compose your day with a little comedy. On a sun-splashed autumn afternoon 12 years ago in the choir loft of Morgantown’s First Presbyterian Church […]
North Marion High marching band back from Hawaii
FAIRMONT – The way Matt Morgan tells it, he didn’t exactly feel like the Big Kahuna as the North Marion High School marching band he directs readied for its trip […]
