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Kids’ knowledge on display at science fair

KINGWOOD — The Preston County Science Fair for students in grades 5 and 7 and high school was held recently at the Kingwood Community Building. Jennifer Spiker, a teacher at Preston High School, said each student chose his or her own project from a variety of categories. There were three divisions and 80 projects on display to be judged. Debra Zigray, a 4th grade teacher at Kingwood Elementary School and science fair coordinator, also oversees the Social Studies Fair and Math Field Day. Winners in Division I Animal Science: First place — Scarlett Hayes, Which Dog ...

Mountain Line ridership on the rise, but still well below pre-COVID totals

Mountain Line General Manager Maria Smith said public transit numbers are rebounding nationally post-COVID, but the comeback is going to take some time.  For the five years prior to COVID — 2015 to 2019 — Mountain Line averaged 991,544 total riders annually.  Then came the ...

‘Mohigan Idol 2024’ hits the stage in March at the Met: The student talent show that originated at MHS has raised nearly $200K for WVU Medicine Children’s

Cue announcer: “This is … ‘Mohigan Idol.’” OK, so Ryan Seacrest won’t be on the stage of the Metropolitan Theatre in March to emcee, but the Hollywood-styled glamour and glitz of the talent show for a good cause will still commence as it has since 2011, organizers say. That was the year the then-student council of Morgantown High School had a charitable idea to play off the popularity of “American Idol,” the network television juggernaut. “We can raise money for the hospital,” the budding policymakers said. As in, WVU Medicine Children’s. To date, ...

Community garden program a requirement of Green Bag Road project

MORGANTOWN — Call it Green Bag’s gardening greenbacks.  Or, maybe, seed money.  Whatever it’s called, members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Policy Board are hopeful an environmental requirement to fund community gardens ...

County tubing hill opens Friday

Ten inches of snow and temperatures in the mid-20s didn’t keep some tubers away from Chestnut Ridge Park & Campground Friday. The park opened its tubing hill Friday morning and enthusiasts were there to take a run at it. Monongalia County Director of Parks & Recreation J.R. ...

PSC staff blesses MUB purchase of Cheat View PSD

MORGANTOWN — The proposed consolidation of Cheat View Public Service District's waterworks system into Morgantown Utility Board's received the blessing of the Public Service Commission's staff, Utilities Division and legal team this week. The three groups pooled brief memos of support ...