Westover City Council on Monday approved a $110,000 contract with Region VI Planning & Development Council to serve as the city’s administrator for the upcoming Holland Avenue project. It was […]
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Wanton endangerment latest gun-related crime in downtown Morgantown
One man is charged with wanton endangerment involving a firearm after he allegedly brandished a handgun during an interaction with another man inside Jimmy John’s on High Street in Morgantown. […]
AAA: Thanksgiving will see more travelers than 2021, but highest holiday gas prices on record
MORGANTOWN – With the pandemic on the wane, more people will be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday than in 2021, according to AAA. But they’ll be paying more to do […]
Investigations continue into two area deaths
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department continues its investigations into a hit and run resulting in a death on Grafton Road and the murder of a Fairmont man whose suspected killer […]
Two AmeriCorps volunteers join North Elementary to manage its agriculture program
If you can remember mimeographed handouts and overhead projectors in school, you also know the old “My dog ate my homework” dodge — which has been rendered all but obsolete […]
Cryptocurrency stars can flame out
But they can’t take customers with them Out of nowhere, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried became a billionaire mover and shaker in the world of cryptocurrency. He threw money around the halls […]
The neglect of younger voters is a lost opportunity for political parties
by Mindy Romero The day after the midterm elections, President Joe Biden held a news conference where he praised the “young people of this nation” for showing up at the […]
Why governments need to send everyone washing-machine filters
by Matt Simon An environmental crisis is brewing in your washing machine. We’re all familiar with macroplastic pollution — the big stuff like soda bottles that litter our streets and […]
Farmington No. 9 service set today: 78 miners died in the 1968 disaster
The desk clerk at the motel in Fairmont had to look twice. “Huh?” he wondered. “What the heck was that?” The paperclips and pens collected in that old coffee mug […]
Nov. 20 letters to the editor
Have to give credit to Coach Neal Brown In 1966, a certain assistant football coach at WVU took the time to stop by a small, central West Virginia town to […]
