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Morgantown Council to take up $37.3 million spending plan

MORGANTOWN — City finances will be the focus of conversation Tuesday when Morgantown City Council meets in regular session. Included on the meeting agenda is a first reading of an ordinance adopting the city’s 2019-’20 operating budget. At just over $37.3 million, the spending plan ...

State DOT secretary tours Preston roads

KINGWOOD — State Transportation Secretary Tom Smith provided  information as well as taking it in, during two days of touring Preston County last week. Smith and members of his staff, along with Division of Highways (DOH) District 4 Engineer Darby Clayton and Preston Supervisor Blaine ...

Couple brings McFly Outdoors to Morgantown

MORGANTOWN — In October 2012, Mike McWhorter bought a 25,000-square-foot building in Horner, Lewis County, and McFly Outdoors was created. According to Kate Garton, McWhorter’s daughter, different things went into the name of their business, but none came from the 1980s movie trilogy, ...

Farmer answers questions concerning the former Ramada Inn property

MORGANTOWN — In fielding questions about the recently announced effort to centralize area social services in the former Ramada Inn building on Scott Avenue, Stephen Farmer of the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust kept to a few central points. One, no agencies will be forced or pressured ...

House of Delegates passes budget with teacher pay raises, severance tax cut

CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates passed a state budget that would include long-promised teacher pay raises as well as a $30 million severance tax cut for steam coal. The state Senate is on the verge of passing its own budget that does not include those items, but instead includes $110 ...

Lawsuit: Woman claims hair care treatment left her with burn marks

MORGANTOWN — A hair care treatment at a Morgantown-area spa left a woman with second-and-third-degree burns on her head, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Monongalia County Magistrate Court. The plaintiff, Kelly Anne Thomas, named Tuscan Sun Spa and Salon, LLC as the defendant. She filed the lawsuit Feb. 25. Cheri Satterfield, the spa’s owner, declined to comment on the pending litigation. Tuscan Sun offers hair, nail, skin care, beauty, diet and weight-loss services at its Boyers Avenue location in Star City. It also operates locations in Fairmont and Clarksburg, ...