The Mountaineer Mall was a litte more magical than usual Sunday, when Morgantown Dance hosted its annual The Prince and Princess Party. The organization’s annual fundraiser is a day of crafts, games, food and fairytale characters. With an average attendance of 200 children, the party ...
The four existing excess levies active in Monongalia County — public transit, parks/trails, volunteer fire departments and public libraries — are in the process of getting renewal language placed on the May primary ballot. Ballot language for each has been passed to the Monongalia County Commission, which simply took receipt before passing it along to the West Virginia Auditor’s Office for review. The Commission has not taken any official action on the levies yet. Of six levies put before voters in 2016, the four listed above received the 60% approval needed for passage. Each is ...
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TERRA ALTA — The smile says it all. On Thursday, 7-year-old Wyatt Dewitt was named an honorary member of the East Preston Eagles basketball team. He sat with the team and participated in a special tip off to start the game. He also got his own team jersey. Wyatt, a first ...
The number of stroke patients at eight rural hospitals — seven in West Virginia and one in Maryland — treated with medication to break up blood clots through WVU Medicine’s tele-stroke program continues to grow. The drug, tPA, is the only noninvasive treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for ischemic strokes, which account for 87% of all strokes. But for tPA to properly break up blood clots, the drug has to be administered within four-and-a-half hours of the stroke, which is where the WVU tele-stroke program comes in. WVU Medicine started the program ...
FELLOWSVILLE — In the Marquess, Sinclair, Colebank, Stevensburg area of Preston County, 18 Frontier phone customers are asking legislators and the State Public Service Commission for help. “I haven’t had a land line phone since November 2019,” Norma Murray said. Murray, 71, and her husband, Jerry, 79, have lived on Goff Hill, Moatsville, for 45 years. Their underground phone lines, they believe, have been there longer, since about 1964. They’ve been told the lines were damaged by mice, the couple said. One service person told them “you need snakes to get the mice,” ...
