This holiday season, Morgantown-based nonprofit Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) invites the community to join its mission to send books and supportive messages to individuals in prisons across Appalachia. APBP was founded through WVU English Professor Katy Ryan's 2004 course on ...
Not everyone spends Thanksgiving stuffing their faces and watching football. For the more active among us, there’s the annual Morgantown Turkey Trot, a 5K walk/run that Mixbook recently ranked one of America’s most popular Thanksgiving Day events. According to a press release, the ...
Therapy Services LLC continues to innovate in the therapy space with its latest addition. The Hampton Center business hosted an open house on Sunday to introduce its new sensory gym. According to Tyler Elliott, office operations and risk coordinator at Therapy Services LLC, the space ...
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE GLEN JEAN — The forest fire burning within the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve has now topped 2,000 acres. National Park Service officials say the Steep Mountain Fire is now at 2,028 acres and is 70% contained. However, the blaze continued to burn in a rugged and inaccessible part of the park on a steep and remote mountainside. The fire is situated in the area of War Ridge and Backus Mountain. Park Service officials have no brought in a helicopter which is ferrying water from the nearby New River to the fire sight only a few hundred yards up the ...
Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center (MCCAC) will host a fundraising event, Battle of the Bartenders: Holiday Edition, from 5-8:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Keglers. The center advocates for children who have been abused or encountered other significant adverse childhood experiences in Monongalia County. It provides a collaborative and child-friendly environment where children and their families can be interviewed, educated and healed. MCCAC provides three free resiliency building services: forensic interviews, family advocacy and therapy. The organization has been operating since 2005. ...
MORGANTOWN — It looks as if Morgantown’s winter warming shelter is headed back to Hazel’s House of Hope after all. The board of directors for Hope Hill Sobering Center walked away from a Tuesday afternoon meeting with a tentative agreement to allow Bartlett Housing Solutions to ...
