MORGANTOWN – Mon Health System has begun offering a specialized prostate cancer immunotherapy treatment not available anywhere else in the state, and its first patient has just completed his treatment. […]
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Hope Gas seeks PSC OK for new 30-mile pipeline from Wadestown to Morgantown
MORGANTOWN – Hope Gas has asked the state Public Service Commission for its OK to build a new 30-mile pipeline from Wadestown in western Monongalia County eastward to the edge […]
Walnut Street Bridge remains in the dark
MORGANTOWN — When Brian Sherry lived in South Park, he’d look over from the Pleasant Street Bridge and joke that the Walnut Street Bridge is so ugly that it’s intentionally […]
Buckwheat Festival’s 81st King Buckwheat proud to represent Preston County
As a child, Carson Stone struggled with public speaking. Through his reign as King Buckwheat LXXXI, Stone has seen firsthand the benefit of putting yourself out there despite hesitation, especially […]
Buckwheat Festival’s 81st Queen Ceres fulfills legacy
In 1988, Shannon Smith Wolfe was crowned Queen Ceres XLVII of the 47th Buckwheat Festival. 34 years later, her daughter Autumn Wolfe has continued the legacy as Queen Ceres LXXXI […]
81st Buckwheat Festival’s First Maid of Honor and Escort honored to be a part of the festival, ‘Hard work pays off’
The 81st Buckwheat Festival Royalty Court features First Maid of Honor Piper Slinka-Petka and her escort, runner-up to King Buckwheat Alex Burns. Slinka-Petka competed for a position on the Buckwheat […]
81st Buckwheat Festival’s Second Maid of Honor and Escort reflect on past memories of the festival
The 81st Buckwheat Festival Royalty Court features Second Maid of Honor Marli Phillips and her escort, Evan Keech. Phillips ran for the Buckwheat Festival Royalty Court after past involvement with […]
Sept. 24 letters to the editor
Value of higher ed underestimated West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair recently wrote in regard to the faculty and staff cuts being pushed through at WVU despite mass protests from […]
Rules exist for a reason
“Republic” refers to a government in which citizens elect representatives to govern according to the law. Thus, the supreme power of a democratic republic resides not in the legislative body, […]
Trump is rotten. But that doesn’t mean he should be kicked off the ballot
by Mark Z. Barabak Donald Trump is a cancer on the body politic, a malignant tumor of a man who turns just about everything he touches into rot. He’s coarsened […]






