MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s 13-county Region 4 is starting over in its search for a regional director to serve on the West Virginia First Foundation — the 11-member body that will steer hundreds of millions in opioid settlement dollars statewide. The region selected Jonathan Board ...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many new hobbies were adopted. For four retired friends, respite was found in learning to forage in the forests of West Virginia. Inspired by a growing interest in the practice, they formed The Foraging Queens, a group dedicated to volunteer work and ...
Kick off the spring trail season Saturday by joining the Mon River Trails Conservancy in a national Celebrate Trails Day event. Across the United States, trail users will be having some fun at hosted events on rail-trails. On the Mon River Rail-Trail, find the Spring Handmade Market: ...
For 16 years, Becca Fint-Clark has been a 4-H fixture in Monongalia County. Clark, a 4-H agent with WVU’s Extension Service, has been schooling pre-teens and teens for that long on topics from environmental awareness to money management. If you want your offspring to learn the ...
Still not convinced? About digging into a cupcake with a craft beer, we mean. “Hey, all you need to do is come downtown on Saturday,” Anna Carrier said. “You’ll love it.” Carrier is referring to the WV Cupcake and Craft Beer Fest, which runs from noon-6 p.m. that day at ...
A workshop on green burial options and possibilities is set for 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 429 Warrick St., Morgantown. Those interested may also attend via Zoom. The workshop is free and open to the public and will be facilitated by Dr. Bill Reger-Nash. Green or natural burials are becoming more commonplace throughout the U.S. However, sites for such burials are limited in and around Morgantown and across West Virginia. Conventional wakes, burials and cremations consume enormous resources and can be problematic for the planet. In a green ...
