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Pleasant Street business owners worry over impact of parking garage repairs

MORGANTOWN — Josh Eid-Ries, the business and sustainability manager of Mountain People’s Co-op on Pleasant Street, admitted he was surprised when the parking garage across the street was closed May 13 for repairs. He was under the impression the garage was going to remain open until June ...

Number of breweries continues to grow in Monongalia, Preston counties

MORGANTOWN — It started with a Christmas gift, said Roger Johnson, owner of Screech Owl Brewing in Bruceton Mills. Crista, Roger’s wife, bought him a beer-making kit for Christmas and soon Roger was making beer and developing a following among his friends and family. The timing was ...

Basement was left behind, but its role in $5 million request was not

CHARLESTON — Five million dollars in requested improvements to a West Virginia Emergency Operations Center was built on the premise that state emergency managers were working in moldy, flood-prone conditions in the Capitol basement. The trouble is, the emergency managers started moving ...

Trinity Christian School graduates largest ever class

MORGANTOWN — For the last time, 33 students went to their little school on the hill. Some have been making the climb for 14 years — since pre-kindergarten — but now Trinity Christian School’s class of 2019 have descended into the world. “The thing I’m going miss most is the ...

Police investigate school threat, find none

MORGANTOWN — A story about a disturbance between two students at South Middle School got blown out of proportion on Thursday prompting a police investigation that found no credible threat. Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston said his department was alerted about a possible threat of violence at South Middle on Friday. The MPD, Pennsylvania State Police and Westover Police identified the reported source of the threat and conducted interviews. The investigation showed no credible threat of violence at any Monongalia County School, Preston said. A disturbance between two children ...