WVU engineers seek ways to prevent them on rural roads WVU Today Drivers on winding West Virginia roads often encounter road damage caused by rockfalls, even if they aren’t present […]
Author: Submitted to The Dominion Post
Dec. 5 letters to the editor
Downtown must have own warming shelter Monongalia Friends Meeting has a deep concern for our neighbors in Morgantown who are without shelter this winter. As Quakers, we believe there is […]
Guest essay: Murky miracle
by Rabbi Joe Hample There is no better-known Jewish object than the dreidel, the top that we spin at Chanukkah, with Hebrew letters on the four sides. Together with gelt […]
Guest essay: W.Va.’s future depends on varied, affordable energy
by Mike Oliverio Affordable electricity is critical to West Virginia’s economic future. Whether it’s a futuristic hyperloop facility, advanced manufacturing or new data center, they all require significant amounts of […]
Guest essay: COP26 or ‘cop-out’: A cry for local action
by Alan D. Bristow The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to be the time when countries offered real solutions to honor the Paris […]
Have a healthy holiday season
What’s on your holiday to-do list? Shopping? Meal planning? Decorations? How about a flu vaccine? Monongalia County Health Department recommends getting a flu shot no later than late October or […]
Lawrence Fischer
Lawrence Christopher “Fish” Fischer, 62, of Morgantown, passed away Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, following a lengthy illness. He was born July 19, 1959, in Wheeling, […]
Robert Dittmar
Robert Lee Dittmar Jr., 58, of Independence, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. He was born in Ravenswood, on Dec. 31, 1962, the son of Mary Carolyn Pondek Dittmar, […]
Renee Tharp
Renee Eickleberry Tharp, 49, of Blacksville/Morgantown, passed away Sept. 5, 2021, from a fatal car accident in Danville, Va. She was born Jan. 13, 1972, the daughter of the late […]
Dolores O’Brien
Dolores Ruth Fleming O’Brien, 91, of Morgantown, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, after a short illness. She was born Dec. 3, 1929, in Morgantown, daughter of the late […]







