As the towers were tumbling, Amber Nichols’ phone was ringing. It was her mother on the line. “Honey, do you know what’s going on?” “No — what’s going on?” There was a lot of geography between Nichols and her hometown of West Union in Doddridge County that ...
Strawberry feet, forever. Now’s the time to start thinking about lacing up your running shoes and recalibrating the stopwatch setting on your phone. That’s because the Mohigan Strawberry 5K is lapping back around next month. The footrace and walk annually races money for academic programs at Morgantown High School, through the school’s MHS Foundation. It’s a tie-in with the foundation’s yearly strawberry sale, a signature fundraiser. Participants will hit their marks Aug. 13 on the Caperton Trail at the Wharf District. Start and finish is at the back of the ...
Call Wednesday just another day at the office — in the unprecedented life of the West Virginia Academy. Classrooms have been renovated, furnishings are being delivered and work is being completed on the playground, in preparation of the first day of school next month. What makes it ...
High school seniors interested in the day-to-day operations of the FBI will have a chance to earn a seat for the FBI’s 2022 Teen Academy at one of four locations in October. The Teen Academy program gives accepted students an opportunity to get a comprehensive look into today’s FBI ...
If you’re traveling on Interstate 79 around South Fairmont and you time it right, you’ll see it: The Katherine Johnson IV&V NASA facility, at I-79 Technology Park. A highway glimpse is only fleeting, though. Up close, the letters in burnished chrome glint in the sun just like a ...
“Hello, Mr. President. How are you?” “I’m fine, Mr. President. And you?” Most people know of a famous photograph snapped in the summer of 1963 of a 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. The once-and-future Leader of the Free World was tapped for that year’s American Legion Boys Nation, an eight-day immersion in the nation’s capital of just how government works — from writing legislation to getting one’s self elected to high office. Clinton, according to the lore that followed him to the Oval Office, was so impressed ...
