City talks airport TIF district

February 8, 2020

The Monongalia County Commission approved the documentation this week authorizing financial firm Crews & Associates to begin analysis of a potential Morgantown Municipal Airport TIF district. The increment generated by the district would be used to help finance the local match of the city’s $50 million runway extension project as well as the development of a nearby commerce park. The city, state or some combination of the two will have to come up with at least $5 million to accompany federal dollars. In a TIF district, a city or county — in this case the district would ...

Cooper’s Rock State Forest hosts 9th annual Winterfest

February 8, 2020

“The thing that I most looked forward to was the fact that it actually snowed.” Adam Polinski, member of the Cooper’s Rock Foundation Board, hosted the ninth annual Winterfest at Cooper’s Rock, with plenty of winter activities. There were several open house activities for people to ...

Wintry weekend ahead; school announce closings, delays

February 6, 2020

A damp, dreary Thursday will morph today into a frosty, snow-filled introduction to the weekend, according to Dave Dombek, senior AccuWeather meteorologist. Due to the cooling temperatures and predicated precipitation, the West Virginia Department of Education on Thursday evening reported ...

Weather, flu outbreak force counties to close schools

February 6, 2020

Susan Haslebacher is washing her hands of the whole matter, and she wants you to do the same. Hand-washing, the health supervisor for Monongalia County Schools said, is one way to help cut down on the chance of getting the influenza virus. The flu is currently having its way with several of the Mountain State’s public school districts. Schools in neighboring Marion and Preston counties are closed today, in fact, with the flu being the main culprit in Marion. Preston County is dealing with both flu absences and possible bad weather as a storm system moves in. Doddridge ...

Ruby Memorial Hospital offers therapy dog services for patients

February 6, 2020

Nurse Rachel Childers was in the midst of discussing a patient’s chart, in an authoritative tone with lots of multi-syllabic medical terms, when it happened. Her voice shot up two octaves and suddenly became sing-song. “Fluffy puppies!” Pardon me? “Fluffy puppies!” Two ...

South Middle hosts Mon County Spelling Bee

February 5, 2020

It was all hunky-dory Wednesday night for Galen Axel Anderson and Alexander Grammer. Same for Elsie Ferreiro, Haya Salman and Katherine Wang. Might you be wondering, that word, “hunky-dory,” has its origins in Dutch and basically means that all is well. It was also among the nearly ...