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Pantry Plus More’s Back-to-School Bash to be held on Aug. 3

Pantry Plus More (PPM) is holding its 7th-annual Back-to-School Bash from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. The event first started in 2018 and has gone on to serve thousands of students. “What began as an event that served a couple hundred students has grown immensely,” said Amanda Bolyard, board member at Pantry Plus More and chair of the Back-to-School Bash. “We served over 1,600 students last year.”  The Pantry Plus More Back-to-School Bash will be at the Mon County Center in Morgantown. Any student attending a school in Monongalia County — from pre-school to 12th ...

Banana bread or chocolate chip cookies? No need to choose one

I don’t know about you, but my family loves homemade baked goods. It doesn’t really matter what it is as long as it is still warm out of the oven. However, the top two contenders in our house are definitely homemade chocolate chip cookies and banana bread. So, when I found a recipe on Pinterest for soft and fluffy chocolate chip banana bread cookies, I knew I had to try them.  It doesn’t matter how often I make them or how many I make, every batch of banana bread or chocolate chip cookies is  completely gone within a day and a half of baking them. They are that loved ...

FSU, MARS host robotics endurance event starting today

Mountaineer Area Robotics (MARS) and Fairmont State University have partnered to bring the world’s only high school endurance robotics competition to Fairmont, today through Saturday.  Lasting a total of 26 hours and 14 minutes, West Virginia RObotics eXtreme (WVROX) will feature 30 teams from across the country to compete in the event.  The public is welcome to attend from 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. today and from 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Fairmont State University Falcon Center.  MARS is part of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) program, which combines the ...

Marilla Park pool project ahead of schedule as 65-year run nears its end

MORGANTOWN — Call it a changing of the (life)guard. After 65 years or so as a Morgantown summer staple, BOPARC’s Marilla Pool is just about ready to head off into retirement — or wherever demolished pools go.  City park pool season will close at the end of the public session ...

Arts commission in Fairmont celebrates its 40th anniversary Saturday

FAIRMONT – On a rainy afternoon 11 years ago in the band room at University High School … Neil King was bopping for all he was worth. King, who was then director of the UHS Jazz Ensemble, was getting his sonic charges ready for a state music competition. “Take the A Train,” the 1941 jumper by Duke Ellington, the tune was. Driving piano to hint at the rock ‘n’ to follow some 15 years later on the juke box and radio. Trombones, and their glorious slurring of the blues notes trafficked by the Duke. And King, a jazz trumpeter by training who is now director of ...

Mountain East Conference moving track championships to Mylan Park

MORGANTOWN — Mylan Park will be the home of the three-day Mountain East Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships for five years starting April 27-29, 2025.  The 11-member NCAA Division II conference issued a press release Wednesday announcing a corporate partnership with the ...