The Women’s Giving Circle of North Central West Virginia (WGC), a component fund of Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia Inc. (YCF), will host its annual Spring Bash […]
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Buck limit lowered to two
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE PIPESTEM — Most West Virginia deer hunters will see their opportunity to kill a third buck end with this fall’s hunting season. The West Virginia Natural Resources […]
It’s Election Day in Morgantown
MORGANTOWN — It’s Election Day in Morgantown. Polling locations across the city will be open from 6:30 a.m.- 7:30 p.m. Shortly thereafter, we’ll know who the city’s voters have […]
The loss of local news outlets means no more‘first rough draft of history’ for many communities
by Dan Shortridge Recently, I spent an hour sorting through newspaper stories from the mid-2000s about the sale of a regional drugstore chain. The week before, I skimmed articles from […]
Teixeira — whistleblower or traitor?
by Nicholas Goldberg The law is clear. If you mishandle, distribute or disclose classified information you can get in big trouble. In the worst cases, as with Jack Teixeira, the […]
Biden admin. notbanning gas stoves
It’s not a surprise anymore when prominent politicians focus their energies on rabble-rousing culture war battles instead of doing the hard stuff of governing, but we still feel compelled to […]
NETL employs new geospatial mapping technology to locate orphan gas wells
MORGANTOWN – National Energy Technology Laboratory is embracing a new technology called geospatial mapping to locate hard-to-find orphaned oil and gas wells. “Finding the location and characterizing these orphaned wells […]
Nursing home employee charged with stealing residents’ phones
A Kingwood nursing home employee is in jail after she allegedly stole several cell phones from elderly residents in her care. Preston County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to Stonerise Health Care […]
City’s early voting turnout consistent with 2021 and 2019 elections
MORGANTOWN — There are a couple ways to look at the city’s early voting turnout heading into today’s municipal election. On one hand, 717 voters participated during the 10-day period, […]
STEAM-TAC road trip: WVU-based state learning initiative puts in lots of miles for the cause during its first year
From Elephant Toothpaste — to nearly 19,000 miles on the odometer. That’s how it’s going these days at WVU for an intellectual road-trip exercise designed to bring fun, hands-on lesson […]
