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Pilot shortage impacting Morgantown air service

MORGANTOWN — Nearly a decade ago, airline industry prognosticators said a looming pilot shortage hastened by a wave of retirements, dramatic increases in training requirements and a reduction in military-trained aviators would spell doom for small commuter airlines.  Then COVID-19 ...

Newsweek names United #1 Most Trusted Bank

United Bankshares Inc. reported earnings for the first quarter of 2023 of $98.3 million, or $0.73 per share, as compared to earnings of $99.8 million, or $0.74 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2022. Earnings for the first quarter of 2022 were $81.7 million, or $0.60 per share. First quarter of 2023 results produced annualized returns on average assets, average equity and average tangible equity, of 1.35%, 8.72% and 14.97%, respectively, compared to annualized returns on average assets, average equity and average tangible equity of 1.36%, 8.80% and 15.28%, respectively, for the ...

Mountaintop Beverage begins production in Morgantown Industrial Park

Got milk?  Mountaintop Beverage does.  Got a 330,000 square-foot state-of-the-art automated aseptic bottling facility capable of processing staggering amounts of raw dairy into an array of products with up to a one-year shelf life?  Mountaintop has that ...

Crogan Lift Station expansion about halfway complete

BY JENNIFER GRAHAM KINGWOOD — The Kingwood Sanitary Sewer Board met Monday evening, and ended with the board members going into executive session. Eleni Knight, an engineer from Civil & Environmental Consultants (CEC) said the Crogan Lift Station extension was over half way complete. She said all of the rights-of-way needed for the project have been signed. Knight said, however, one resident wouldn’t sign the right-of-way unless they removed nine trees on his property for him. The trees were removed. During the last meeting, Mike Flueharty from CEC said there were ...

Shiny Dome Records leading Morgantown’s vinyl revival

MORGANTOWN -- You don’t have to be in a basement to have a cool record store.   But it sure does help.  “I think it’s a very punk rock thing. A lot of punk record shops throughout the country are in basements,” Chris Herrod said. “It’s just a cool aesthetic. You ...