‘No major changes’ to Sabraton Sheetz according to company spokesman

August 13, 2019

The Sheetz convenience store at 1901 Earl L. Core Road in Sabraton is slated to re-open Sept. 13, after being closed since early July for a nearly three-month overhaul. But don’t expect any significant changes when it does re-open, a company spokesman said. “Sheetz regularly rebuilds its store locations in order to provide the best customer service and to help our employees best deliver on their menu offers,” said Nicholas Ruffner, public relations manager for the Altoona, Pa.-based convenience store chain. The Sabraton Sheetz opened for business in September 2003 and is ...

GMCVB adds Taylor County to coverage area

August 10, 2019

The Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau, the tourism marketing arm of Monongalia and Preston counties, will soon be adding Taylor County to its coverage area. The move came at the request of Taylor County Commission and the city of Grafton, the county seat, said Susan Riddle, president and chief executive officer of the GMCVB. “We are better together,” said Riddle, adding the GMCVB board approved the expansion into Taylor County. The move is expected to be completed by fall, she said. By adding Taylor County, the home of Tygart State Park and the birthplace of ...

Sober Living Rally for Recovery hosts fundraiser

August 10, 2019

The first ever Morgantown Rally for Recovery will raise money to support West Virginia Sober Living. “It’s so easy to see all the drug use and people struggling with it,” the rally’s co-chair Angela Kudurogianis said. “A lot of times we don’t appreciate all the people recovering right now.” The rally will be from 4-9 p.m. Saturday in the Sabraton Plaza behind Defense in Depth. She said Morgantown’s recovery community has grown “tremendously” over the past several years and West Virginia Sober Living recently opened its third sober living house — which accepted its ...

VA FARMS program offers more than classes

August 10, 2019

By Shauna Johnson HUNTINGTON — Over the hill from the Hershel “Woody” Williams VA Medical Center in Cabell County, near the end of a gravel path, two boxes of honeybees, mushrooms growing out of logs and the beginnings of an orchard represent a potential road to healing. It’s cultivation that’s evidence of the VA FARMS agricultural vocational training and behavioral health care services pilot program, a partnership between the VA, the state Department of Agriculture and Marshall University, which begins its fourth cycle with veterans on Monday. Each cycle at what is ...

Five years after closure, West Virginia DNR Director Stephen McDaniel not giving up on Pedlar shooting range

August 10, 2019

OSAGE, W.Va. — Through the rolling hills and country churches of Pursglove and Jere, well-intentioned folks don’t have many recreational opportunities when traveling down the Mason Dixon Highway. But nestled among private lands is one of West Virginia’s most beautiful and secluded ...

Former dean of WVU journalism passes away

August 9, 2019

Christine “Chris” Martin, the former WVU journalism dean who turned Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and war correspondents into professors at her school, has died. The Reed College of Media said Martin died Wednesday in Florida, where she had launched a media and marketing company, after serving years in the senior administration of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a leading journalism think-tank in St. Petersburg. No other details were available Thursday of her passing, but Maryanne Reed said Martin’s legacy of journalism in the Mountain State and elsewhere ...