Breaking News

Local News

Designs underway to improve I-79 Exit 155

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – According to West Virginia Division of Highways spokesman Brent Walker, design work is underway for improvements to Exit 155 (WVU/Star City) on I-79. Walker said the DOH is in talks with private developer WestRidge, its consultant, HDR and the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization. “Original plans have considered a divergent diamond interchange with a flyover heading west,” Walker said. “It may also include a roundabout.” He said the results of an ongoing traffic study would help inform the final design. The project is ...

County Commission contributes $17.6K to Valley View Avenue resurfacing, addresses Scotchell estate

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Monongalia County Commission made its contribution to the resurfacing of Valley View Avenue official on Wednesday, approving $17,690. Valley View connects to Willowdale Road across from Milan Puskar Stadium, at the site of WVU Medicine’s new Willowdale Garage. The county’s funds will be added to equal amounts from WVU Medicine, the Morgantown Utility Board and Zip Shearer, owner of Chateau Royale Apartments, for the work, which is expected to be completed by Wednesday, weather permitting. The project, totaling $70,750, will be handled by Stone ...

Comcast program Internet Essentials opens to low-income households

No one has actually referred to the Internet as “the Information Superhighway,” since the late 1990s, or thereabouts.  Even so, the resource and its digital environs is still part of a serious resource that isn’t always accessible to low-income West Virginians and others in similar economic straits nationwide in the 21st century. Philadelphia-based Comcast, the telecommunications conglomerate, set out to level that road Tuesday. Comcast announced the largest-yet expansion of its Internet Essentials program, which has provided broadband access since the first rollout in ...

Cheat Lake hotel to open this fall

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown area’s latest hotel, The Cranberry, an 80-room hotel in Cranberry Square in the Cheat Lake area, should be open this fall, giving West Virginia University football fans another lodging option.  Scott Hursong, managing member and investor in The ...

State police officer hospitalized after shooting

MARLINTON, W.Va. — A state police trooper was hospitalized after being shot in the stomach Monday evening in Pocahontas County. West Virginia State Trooper First Class Josh Tallman, from the Elkins Detachment, responded to a call in Pocahontas County after a driver had fired a shot from a rifle at Pocahontas County Sheriff J.P. Barlow. The shooting happened after a single vehicle crash. The shooting suspect ran into the woods. “The guy fled into the woods armed and Trooper Tallman and others encountered him a couple of hours later,” said West Virginia State Police ...

Learn to tan a hide at workshop

In mid-October, the Arnettsville Community Center will be hosting a hide-tanning class, instructed by Jason Drevenak, president of the North American Bushcraft School. The North American Bushcraft School is in the Eastern panhandle. The workshop is set for 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19, rain or shine, and it will focus on how to turn any animal hide into leather “suitable for all kinds of craft.” Admission for the workshop is $20. A break will be taken for lunch. Attendees can either bring a lunch or use the lunch concessions that will be available. The community center ...