If you want to show your face at a Monongalia County high school graduation ceremony today, you’ll have to cover your face — before you can even get through the […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
What to expect at graduation ceremonies
Even with resurgent clouds of COVID-19 looming next door, the only thing that will keep Monongalia County high school seniors from walking Thursday will be clouds of a different kind. […]
Considering WV ’s status and statues
Today is West Virginia’s birthday, and there won’t be any cake in downtown Morgantown because of the pandemic. You won’t have to worry about mustering the air to blow out […]
Celebrating Betty Puskar: a Morgantown icon remembered for generosity and courage
Sunlight winked off the handles and top of Betty Puskar’s silver-gray casket Friday afternoon, as it was being trundled into a hearse for a ride to Oak Grove Cemetery. She […]
Community celebrates Juneteenth with cookout
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Mark Twain, American humorist, said that.And he wasn’t necessarily joking. Hawa Diawara feels the same — and she’s not […]
Loved ones pay their respects to the late Betty Puskar
Betty Jane got an earful when they got back to the car, but it was worth it. “Pinched that guy right on the butt,” Wayne Howard, said, laughing. “Goosed him […]
Remembering the life and legacy of Hershel Mullins
May there be no double-bogeys in Heaven.Or whiffs or slices, either.Amen. So goes John Verbosky’s prayer for Hershel Mullins, the Monongalia County chief magistrate (and his longtime golfing buddy) whose […]
Betty Puskar, breast cancer treatment advocate, dies at 80
When she wasn’t brushing tears, Jorie Ftorek was gripping that steering wheel like a 9-iron. “I knew the work they did here,” the former pro golfer said during a 2017 […]
Capturing the Moment
Photographer takes pictures of families during quarantine Gas mask poses. You just knew there were going to be gas mask poses. How could there not be? Cranky toddlers, too. And […]
West Virginia Department of Education talks fall reopenings; assessing re-entry scenarios
W. Clayton Burch, West Virginia’s newly named Superintendent of Schools, didn’t waste any time Wednesday laying the framework for a big assignment concerning the first day of classes two months […]
