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Morgantown hires Brian Belcher as new airport director

MORGANTOWN -- According to a press release from the city of Morgantown, Brian Belcher has been hired to lead the Morgantown Municipal Airport (MGW). Belcher steps into the airport director role vacant since the city cut ties with Jon Vrabel in February after six and a half years in the ...

More mud-bogging, less market auction at Valley fair

REEDSVILLE — Not all fairs are built the same. Leticia Lambert emphasized that the Valley District Fair is more motorsports festival than traditional agricultural fair. "Motorsports are the draw," said the fair president and Reedsville Volunteer Fire Department firefighter. Those and ...

‘Got our attention’: Lightning hits gas meter at Fairmont residence

FAIRMONT – As the old adage goes, where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire. Which is just one of those natural-world occurrences by which Mark Jurick can surely abide, the Fairmont man said Tuesday afternoon. Let it also be known he was saying that while an electrician and plumber were ...

‘Nice to see’: Families attend annual Breastfeeding Awareness Walk

Kids stretched and tried some yoga poses, blew bubbles and frolicked under the shelter of the Morgantown Market Place on Friday evening as part of Monongalia County Health Department WIC’s Breastfeeding Awareness Walk that took place from 6 to 8 p.m. About 11 families attended the second ...

$83K awarded to Mon County CAC

MORGANTOWN – Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced $2,128,850.88 in grants for child advocacy centers across the state Friday, which includes $83,245.41 for the Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center. The funding supports 22 centers statewide to provide critical support to child abuse survivors ...