MORGANTOWN — In a near-unanimous vote Thursday morning, Region 4 selected Jon Dower as its representative on the West Virginia First Foundation, the 11-member board tasked with distributing hundreds of millions in opioid settlement dollars. Dower finished second to Jonathan Board when ...
he WOW! Factory, a paint-your-own pottery, mosaic, glass-fusing and clay hand-building studio on University Avenue in Star City, celebrates 16 years in business this month with a month-long Sweet 16 party. All month, customers will enjoy an especially festive atmosphere and ...
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 ...
