FAIRMONT – The way Emily Brown sees it, rigatoni is the right thing to do – when you’re doing right by the people in your community. Saturday’s inaugural “Taste of […]
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Marion Schools superintendent praises crisis response plans during gunman incident Monday
FAIRMONT – Marion County Schools scrambled just as quickly as Fairmont Police during the hunt for an alleged gunman Monday. “This was in our largest attendance area,” the district’s superintendent […]
Brawl in the Family: The philosopher, the goal post (and a certain football game)
WHEELING – All hail Henry, Freddie, Mousey and Fish. “I look at that doggone thing every day and I still laugh,” Ed Gorczyca said Friday morning. “After all these years.” […]
Fairmont Senior High to host 60th Polar Bear Band Spectacular
FAIRMONT – Backyard Brawl? What Backyard Brawl? As a certain football game in Morgantown on Saturday throttles down, another under-the-lights gridiron happening in Fairmont will begin its build to a […]
Marion BOE talks test scores, ongoing mission at alternative learning center
FAIRMONT – The report card is on its way for Marion County Schools, and right now, Superintendent Donna Heston said, the future looks promising. Barrackville Elementary/Middle is already showing substantial […]
Hitting the note: Opera star (and 2000 WVU grad) to sing anthem at game
JBissett@DominionPost.com If you’re so inclined, you could say Rich Rodriguez’s bitter departure from the West Virginia University football sideline 18 years ago – followed by his vaunted return to it […]
Fairmont’s MVA clinic providing progressive care for nearly 70 years
FAIRMONT – In the early morning hours of Nov. 20, 1968, with smoke still roiling from the ruined No. 9 Mine, a team from the Fairmont Clinic was already on […]
Heart-filled reunion: Man meets those who helped save his life
WESTOVER – Some exchanges are just as ordinary – as they are extraordinary. Such as this one this past Wednesday morning in Westover. Ron Wenig walked up to Lee Saffel […]
Family matters: Former First Baptist Church still doing outreach, courtesy of YCF
When the First Baptist Church of Morgantown welcomed its first worshippers in 1842, the city was already a bustling enclave in the northernmost climes of what was then the Commonwealth […]
WVU institute teams up with school system to make football safer
FAIRMONT — Are you ready for some football? A new season is almost upon the land, which also means it will soon be time for that too-familiar gridiron-physics narrative to […]
