Tony Zack never lost his head on the battlefield that day, even as an enemy bullet pierced his helmet – only to ricochet around, in a relatively harmless way. It […]
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Mon Schools, 2023: Special-ed discipline woes and a ‘Renaissance’ in STEM education
Monongalia County Schools went into the year talking about buildings and will close out the year – talking about buildings. Several facilities in the district sustained damage of varying levels […]
Area food bank gets a bowl win, also
Don’t hold the mayo at Pantry Plus More. Pantry Plus More is the food bank in Westover that got to spread out, as it were, with some surprise national TV […]
Driving ambition: Morgantown’s Tony Palmer now a NASCAR chief engineer
The ink was barely dry on his WVU diploma when Tony Palmer floored it for Charlotte on that June day 14 years ago. Well, for the record, he didn’t exactly […]
Mon BOE: Renaissance Academy would ‘give our kids a chance to dream’
If you want to soup up the ride, you have to pay for the parts. That’s essentially what Monongalia County Board of Education members were saying last week as they […]
Get your motor running for a return to the Coal Bucket Saloon on New Year’s Eve
For 15 years, the MountainFest Motorcycle Rally at Mylan Park was hallowed ground for the get-yer-motor runnin’, four-stroke, air-cooled, V-Twin, teardrop tank, two-wheeled, acolytes of the open road. You had […]
Ophthalmologist Raju has his eyes on the prize — as in providing vision care for as many people as he can — in 2024
If you ever plan on spending a morning with Dr. V.K. Raju, you’d better be prepared for a case of blurred vision. That’s because the ophthalmologist is constantly in motion, […]
Rotary around the Christmas tree: Mason Dixon fifth-graders get into the giving of the season
As much as Alicia Mock didn’t want to admit it – and she said it with a chuckle – the vote wasn’t unanimous. Not in the beginning, anyway. We’ll get […]
GameChanger drug prevention program produces critically acclaimed documentary
When Morgantown businessman Joe Boczek founded GameChanger in 2017, he wasn’t thinking about film critics. He was focused more on the scourge of drug abuse in West Virginia – which […]
Trinity students win Congressional app challenge
In the not-so-distant future – that, being the phrase of choice for the blurb-writers of all those 1950s science-fiction pulps and B-movies – you’ll find yourself in possession of still-yet […]
