MORGANTOWN — Funny how a ball of yarn can compress things down, and even stop time. Thursday morning at Mapleshire was typically brisk. The nursing facility on Mon General Drive […]
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Friends of Cheat get $3 million grant from West Virginia Abandoned Mine Land monies
Walking on the Cheat River Trail in Preston County from Manheim to Caddell Mountain Bridge will get $3 million easier in the months ahead. Make that, $3.014 million. That’s how […]
Can Fortune 500 company turn north-central West Virginia into an Almost Heaven version of Silicon Valley?
Morgantown’s burgeoning high-tech industry got a lot more burgeoning Monday. Leidos, a Fortune 500 company that handles everything from biometrics to business support services, announced it is expanding its operations […]
First Presbyterian Church celebrates 230 years of service
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown’s First Presbyterian Church turned 230 this fall, but if Sunday was any indication, the house of worship on Spruce Street isn’t showing its age one bit. One […]
Ridgedale students bring historical figures to life : Gallery
MORGANTOWN — You never know who you’re going to run into at Ridgedale Elementary School. Paul McCartney and Bill Gates were hanging out in the cafeteria Thursday afternoon. So were Maya […]
Former President George H.W. Bush’s legacy remembered
MORGANTOWN — Neil Bucklew still remembers the time he and George H.W. Bush ran a number on the Secret Service. Well, check that, said Bucklew, who served as WVU president […]
Monongalia Board of Education looks beyond classrooms to students’ emotional health
MORGANTOWN — A percentage point (or two) can still make for a world of hurt. Two years ago, 32 percent of West Virginia’s high school students reported feeling sad or […]
Rabbi, latke brigade kick off first night of Hanukkah
MORGANTOWN— Mann toach, Gott lauch. Man thinks, God laughs. That Yiddish proverb carries lots of weight at Morgantown’s Tree of Life Congregation. It means some things in life are just […]
Sundale hosts Light Up Night to honor loved ones
MORGANTOWN — With all those festive lights and decorations filling space at Sundale Thursday night, it was beginning to look a lot like … an afghan. The occasion was the […]
Mon assistant superintendent explains the difference between snow, Arctic Academy days
MORGANTOWN — Wednesday’s snow day for Monongalia County Schools was one of the earlier weather calls for the season in recent history, Donna Talerico said. “We haven’t had one here […]
