Breaking News

Morgantown Farmer’s Market kicks off summer season

MORGANTOWN —Farmer’s Market patrons and vendors returned to the space created specifically for them Saturday, marking the start of the summer Morgantown Farmer’s Market on Spruce Street. Vendors included familiar faces like DeBerry Farm Fresh produce and Patty’s Pastries. Customers ...

Urologist uses specialized VR headset to provide medical therapy

MORGANTOWN — MONA and Jaschar Shakuri-Rad, a Mon Health Medical Center urologist and director of robotic surgery at the hospital, have quickly become an inseparable couple. Rather than spend money taking MONA out to dinner and a movie, Shakuri-Rad spends most of his time with MONA in a ...

Road repairs underway: DOH work on W.Va. 26; traffic delays through Friday

KINGWOOD — Work is underway on one of the most complained about roads in Preston County. Preston County commissioners said earlier they get many complaints about W.Va. 26 south. Last week, DOH crews installed a culvert under the road on what’s known as Oaks Hill and used an excavator to ...

Delegates, experts take pothole tour of eastern end of Mon County

MORGANTOWN — Two Monongalia County delegates and two roads experts set out recently for the second part of their county pothole tour — bouncing along roads in the eastern part of the county. Delegates Barbara Evans Fleischauer and Rodney Pyles joined with Abby and Chris Childs, owner ...

University’s girls’ lacrosse team puts away Morgantown late, 11-7

MORGANTOWN — Some games are just more important than others. Such was the case for the University High girls’ lacrosse team as it hosted Morgantown in its regular-season finale Friday. With postseason seeding (and potentially home-field advantage) on the line, Mallory Napolillo ...

Morgantown beats Buckhannon-Upshur 12-3 to win softball sectional title

MORGANTOWN — Mental mistakes and defensive miscues by the Morgantown High softball team were the main reason Friday night’s win-or-go-home sectional championship against Buckhannon-Upshur was even necessary. It also may have served as a wake-up call for the Mohigans. The Mohigans ...