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Morgantown Arts Walk: High Street comes alive with local artists and vendors

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Main Street Morgantown hosted another Arts Walk Saturday, saying the monthly events are  better than ever thanks to funding from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts.  The walks run for four hours and feature area artists and crafters, allowing them to show and sell their wares and giving the public a chance to see what they have to offer.  Saturday also featured music by Dem Donkey Boys and Power Forward.   Three more Arts Walks are scheduled this year. They are  Sept. 14, Oct. 19 and Nov. ...

‘It Ends with Us’ doesn’t go deep enough to portray abuse properly

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CONTENT WARNING: This film and review discuss situations of domestic violence. If you are in an abusive situation, help is available. You can get help by calling 1-800-799-HELP.  Colleen Hoover’s book “It Ends With Us” lived at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list, so it is unsurprising that it received a film adaptation. I will say up front that I have not read the book, so I can’t speak to how well it is adapted, but I have to say that the movie doesn’t have me rushing to catch up on the source material.  Lily Blossom Bloom (Blake Lively) is about to ...

Rabies oral vaccine bait drop dates set for August

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Five years ago, Monongalia County Health Department hosted a group of wildlife staffers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Elkins to discuss rabies.  Cases had been creeping up and, at the same time, the area treated by the USDA’s oral rabies vaccine (ORV) distribution program had mostly been moved away from Monongalia County.  MCHD officials asked the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to move the program, in which the ORV baits are dropped from aircraft over specific areas, back to Monongalia County.  The USDA agreed and ...

Griefshare has been helping people cope for over 25 years

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KINGWOOD — For 25 years, GriefShare has been helping people find comfort after the loss of a loved one.   Dr. Fred Conley, Pastor Jonathan Nettles and counselor Maureen Durst have been offering the 13-week program to county residents for a year.   “I was a doctor for 42 years and didn’t know this program existed. The local funeral home was excited to find out the program existed. They didn’t know about it either. I found out after my wife passed away and someone gave me a pamphlet,” Conley said. “Maureen and I attended GriefShare, and I felt called by ...

‘Daughters’ doc delves into family, prison and love

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Talking about the carceral state in America can take a lot of work. So many aspects of the justice and prison system are in play that it is hard to find a way to talk about them all with compassion and understanding. But all too often, the discussion about the logistics of criminality loses any sense of the people involved. In the documentary “Daughters,” premiering this week on Netflix, filmmakers Angela Patton and Natalie Rae explore the humanity of those behind bars and those still on the outside.  The film follows four Black girls whose fathers are imprisoned: 5-year-old ...