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Fint-Clark recognized with WVU Buswell Award for service

For 16 years, Becca Fint-Clark has been a 4-H fixture in Monongalia County. Clark, a 4-H agent with WVU’s Extension Service, has been schooling pre-teens and teens for that long on topics from environmental awareness to money management. If you want your offspring to learn the ...

Sweet pairing: Cupcake and craft beer fest moves downtown

Still not convinced? About digging into a cupcake with a craft beer, we mean. “Hey, all you need to do is come downtown on Saturday,” Anna Carrier said. “You’ll love it.” Carrier is referring to the WV Cupcake and Craft Beer Fest, which runs from noon-6 p.m. that day at ...

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 ...

Green burial workshop set for Wednesday

A workshop on green burial options and possibilities is set for 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 429 Warrick St., Morgantown. Those interested may also attend via Zoom. The workshop is free and open to the public and will be facilitated by Dr. Bill Reger-Nash. Green or natural burials are becoming more commonplace throughout the U.S. However, sites for such burials are limited in and around Morgantown and across West Virginia. Conventional wakes, burials and cremations consume enormous resources and can be problematic for the planet. In a green ...

Great Race to make its first stop in Morgantown

MORGANTOWN — If Jeff Stumb were a betting man, he’d wager you’ve never seen anything like what’ll be rolling into town on June 24.  That’s when some 120 antique, vintage and collector cars will make a mid-day pit stop in Morgantown as part of a nine-day, 2,300-mile race from ...

Tattoo Expo makes its mark on Morgantown

The second Spring West Virginia Tattoo Expo opened Friday at the Morgantown Event Center, Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place. The expo runs through Sunday. Hours are noon-10 p.m. today and noon-7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $20 for a day pass and $50 for the weekend. There is a $5 ...