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WIC Kitchen

April showers make May farmers happy … and Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC program nutritionists too. This week’s recipes from WIC Kitchen highlight fresh vegetables and herbs that you can purchase at a farmers market. It’s great timing too. There is a week left for WIC participants to sign up for benefits that they can use at farmers markets through the summer and  into fall. The Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, supplements WIC benefits and provides $30 per participant to use at farmers markets ...

Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch’ among Pulitzer winners

A West Virginia native whose works are often set in the state won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year. Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum right after the war, was cited for fiction.  Phillips, a Buckhannon native, sees “Night Watch” as the third of a trilogy of novels about war, following the Vietnam-era narrative “Machine Dreams” and the Korean War story “Lark & Termite,” which draws in part on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press investigation into the No Gun Ri massacre. She began ...

Guy Ritchie’s latest is a victorious action picture

The story behind Guy Ritchie’s newest film, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” sounds like a Quentin Tarantino alternate history movie. Even the poster has strong “Inglorious Basterds” vibes. But this film is based on a true story, as told in Damien Lewis’s book “Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII” based on Operation Postmaster. This secret mission was only declassified in 2016. When Churchill (Rory Kinnear) realizes that the German U-Boats are preventing the Americans from sending supplies in the ...

Short film festival to be held at various local venues

When people think of film festivals, they often picture events like Cannes or Sundance, but Gerald Habarth wants to remind film lovers that there is a festival right here in Morgantown. The West Virginia MountaineerShort Film Festival runs today through Sunday with screenings at the Canady Creative Arts Center, the WVU Mountainlair and Morgantown Art Party. One of the themes to be explored this year is AI. “There are times when I’ll look at the submissions and find interesting, unexpected themes emerging in the content that people are dealing with, the ideas that they’re ...

Short film festival to be held at various local venues

BY ALISE CHAFFINS When people think of film festivals, they often picture events like Cannes or Sundance, but Gerald Habarth wants to remind film lovers that there is a festival right here in Morgantown. The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival runs today through Sunday with ...

Main Street Morgantown celebrates preservation during May

During May, Main Street Morgantown encourages the community to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month. Communities across the country will celebrate their heritage and preserve their history. Historic preservation is the practice of protecting and preserving buildings, structures and other artifacts of historical significance. Main Street Morgantown invites area residents to join the local celebration of National Historic Preservation Month with the theme “People Saving Places. ” Notice your surroundings and recognize the beauty and significance of historic ...