MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Sarah Cooke blinked twice to shake off the glare of the klieg lights, and when she looked back down, it was still there. Something shiny. Well, that […]
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Grandon retiring after 21 years as Morgantown Mall general manager
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Hmm, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea staging the cow-milking contest in front of Victoria’s Secret like that. Well, yeah, Harry Grandon II said with both […]
Mountaineer Boys and Girls Club morning, afternoon offerings back in place
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Mountaineer Boys and Girls Club, which was ordered to close its doors last month, is slowly rehabbing its way back to its job description. Eric Murphy […]
Trinity Christian’s new class focuses on coding and robotics
Justin Braun is a wrench-turner from way back, even if he is still just a junior at Trinity Christian School. He’s car-crazy, and wants to major in mechanical engineering. Wednesday […]
While youngsters are kicking off the new school year, teachers are preparing to make learning fun
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Math teachers can factor in a sense of humor, too. That’s why Amanda Cosner, an academic coach at Brookhaven Elementary School who teaches that subject, multiplied some […]
Mon County students head back to school
Just like that, those Bluebird buses are back on the road this morning in Monongalia County. Today is the first day of school in Mon — and about 12,000 students […]
WVU professor analyzes seasonal shifts in Appalachian region
The professor’s smartphone got the last word the other day. “How’s that for timing?” asked Nicolas Zegre, a forester who directs the Mountain Hydrology Laboratory at West Virginia University. Blatting […]
Former dean of WVU journalism passes away
Christine “Chris” Martin, the former WVU journalism dean who turned Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and war correspondents into professors at her school, has died. The Reed College of Media said Martin […]
Comcast program Internet Essentials opens to low-income households
No one has actually referred to the Internet as “the Information Superhighway,” since the late 1990s, or thereabouts. Even so, the resource and its digital environs is still part of […]
One foot in front of the other, for Special Olympics
Kristian Rowan moved a lot of water last summer in Seattle. That was during the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games – where the swimmer from Monongalia struck gold and also […]
