FAIRMONT – Fostering literacy and critical thinking isn’t a 9-to-5 job. That’s why Tygart Valley United Way is signing on with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Parton, the Nashville entertainer, activist and entrepreneur who died last month, founded the program in 1995. The ...
MORGANTOWN – Michael Green wasn’t exactly putting his best face forward that afternoon two years ago, but the thing was … the effort was still pretty good. Well, check that. It was quite good, in fact. Especially since the artist (and teacher) was offering up an art lesson – on the ...
MORGANTOWN – Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia Inc. announced the establishment of the Mary Lou (Street) English Scholarship, created by the English family to honor the memory of their mother and provide educational opportunities for students from Preston County. Once ...
MORGANTOWN – Del. John Williams had a sudden soundtrack Thursday morning on Wilson Avenue. That’s when a selection of members of Morgantown High’s Red and Blue Marching Band – there for a photograph at the street entrance of the school auditorium – kicked out the impromptu jams with ...
MORGANTOWN – The world was a different place when Eddie Campbell Jr. walked across the stage at Wheeling Central Catholic High School to take his diploma in 1984. “I know I’m dating myself,” the Monongalia County Schools superintendent said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education ...
ARTHURDALE – As far as Elmer Rich was concerned, he had himself a pretty good deal that sunny July afternoon back in 2013. Rich, who was then 94 and a star on the old-time fiddle circuit, had people up on their feet as he sawed out timeless tunes – “Arkansas Traveler,” “Dill Pickle ...
