MORGANTOWN — Members of the Monongalia County Commission said Wednesday they are not comfortable providing a financial lifeline to Bartlett Housing Solutions until the agency opens up its books. Commissioner Tom Bloom said he recently explained as much to Bartlett Housing Solutions ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN — The financial situation facing Bartlett Housing Solutions is far more dire than anyone really knew — including, apparently, the nonprofit’s board of directors. In an email sent to the Monongalia County Commission and the city of Morgantown, Board President Nick ...
It’s almost summer time, which means my family will most likely be traveling back to Morgantown more often since the kids are out of school. We love living in Gettysburg, but traveling to see family on a regular basis can be tough on our little family. With a 5-year-old and an 18-month-old who both get bored in the car easily, we had to figure out a way to keep them occupied and happy for the long car rides. I think every mom and dad can relate to getting on the road and then five minutes into the drive the kids are already fighting or crying. So, when we moved out of ...
The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia announced this year’s West Virginia Historic Preservation Awards at its annual awards banquet held recently at the historic Senator’s Mansion in Mannington. Each year, the alliance presents awards that represent the most outstanding and exemplary historic preservation achievements around the Mountain State. It is the statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to historic preservation in the state. It administers the West Virginia Saving Historic Places Grants and the Preserve WV AmeriCorps National Service Initiative. For more ...
