Main Street Morgantown welcomes new cereal bar

May 6, 2022

There’s a new bar downtown, but very different from its alcohol-serving neighbors. Main Street Morgantown welcomed the Day and Night Cereal Bar, 469 High St. The bar has planned three days of grand-opening activities. A ribbon-cutting will take place at 1 p.m. today. Saturday will feature giveaways and a $5 Happy Hour from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., when everything willbe $5. Sunday will celebrate moms with Mother's Day discounts. Day and Night Cereal Bar co-owners Ray Booker and Shawny Badger will offer several different shakes and bowls. Two of their favorite options are ...

McKinley comes to Harrison County, where Amsted Graphite, X-energy partner for federal advanced nuclear reactor project

May 4, 2022

ANMOORE – Rep. David McKinley came to town on Wednesday to tour the Amsted Graphite Materials plant and witness the signing of a par memorandum of understanding between Amsted and X-energy for a federal nuclear energy project. Amsted General Manager Gavin Noel said his company will ...

Gayle Manchin: New River Gorge is site for six-state tourism project funded by $250K ARC grant

May 3, 2022

MORGANTOWN — The Appalachian Regional Commission wrapped up a Tuesday virtual conference on promoting regional culture and tourism with an announcement from federal co-chair Gayle Manchin on a six-state tourism initiative that will be based in the New River Gorge. ARC awarded $250,000 to ...

Capito, McKinley visit MUB waste treatment plant, Richard Mine AMD plant site

May 2, 2022

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Rep. David McKinley spent Monday morning touring Morgantown Utility Board's wastewater treatment plant and visiting the construction site for the Richard Mine acid mine drainage treatment plant. Capito and McKinley learn about ultraviolet ...

Gayle Manchin shares Appalachian Regional Commission’s vision for moving West Virginia and region forward

April 27, 2022

MORGANTOWN – Gayle Manchin, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, shared her vision of how ARC can help West Virginian move forward with an audience of local and state leaders gathered Wednesday for the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative's Focus Forward ...

House passes economic development fund bill after long debate; special session wraps up

April 26, 2022

MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates spent a bit over an hour Tuesday morning debating a bill to create a new economic development fund — what some called the key bill of the two-day special session — before passing it overwhelmingly. As Finance chair Eric Householder, R-Berkeley, ...