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 […]
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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 […]
Aristotle Jones’ ‘Streets of Osage’ celebrates Al Anderson and the coal camp
How’s this for a love song? Aristotle Jones, the Morgantown musician, songwriter and performer who regularly sings the praises of the Osage coal camp, smiled when he heard about how […]
West Virginia Academy will use its $500K Yass Prize to extend its mission in the Mountain State
What do you do, when you’re the Mountain State’s first brick-and-mortar charter school, going into your third year of operation, and you were just recognized with an award widely regarded […]
The old Suncrest Primary is coming down
A poignant thing happened on the way to the start of the demolition at the former Suncrest Primary School on Thursday morning. Before the heavy equipment showed up, a handful […]
UHS, MHS national finalists in Samsung tech contest
Morgantown High and University High schools are both state finalists in a national contest designed to get students thinking about how technology can ease societal woes. The two local schools […]
Mylan Park Elementary students steer into STEM in Charleston
Code me home, country roads. Students from Mylan Park Elementary were among a select group in Charleston on Monday. They joined their counterparts from seven other schools across the state […]
Mon BOE meets with lawmakers in advance of Legislative session
Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly used a school bus analogy to deliver a facts-of-life message from the board to area lawmakers last week. Say there are 70 […]
Zorrah Lawson ‘visualizes’ the 13th Amendment for Human Rights Day
If politics were a painting, the expression wouldn’t be a static study of, say, flowers in a vase on an oh-so-tidy tabletop. It would be full of etches, shades and […]
At Bill Poe’s house for Christmas, here comes Santa Claus (but keep your eyes on the road)
Bill Poe once (almost) made the holidays especially bright for somebody’s insurance agent. That was when two cars, traveling in opposite directions on the road that runs past his Lazzelle […]
