MORGANTOWN — To help bring awareness to women’s heart health, Mon Health System staff wore red Feb. 1 in honor of the American Heart Association’s Wear Red Day. The organization aims to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease in women. “In West Virginia, the rate of heart disease ...
MORGANTOWN — WVU students are thinking beyond the country’s borders. The Panellenic Association at WVU recently raised $37,000 through a variety of fundraisers for the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation. That money will go toward building a school in Malawi, a country in southeast ...
MORGANTOWN — Students in Morgantown are getting hands-on experience before they even receive their diplomas. Rachel Dorsey, a WVU sophomore and marketing student, was looking for a summer internship when a fellow student mentioned an opportunity through Young Entrepreneurs Across America (YEAA). YEAA gives students experience in the business world and trains them in entrepreneurship. “I went through an interview process and they hired me. Our season actually is just now starting,” Dorsey said. During this preseason, Dorsey will start training in a couple weeks. She will hire ...
MORGANTOWN — A lack of snow didn’t deter the nonprofit Coopers Rock Foundation from hosting its annual Winterfest Saturday at Coopers Rock State Forest. Adam Polinski, WinterFest chairperson for Coopers Rock Foundation said Saturday was their eighth Winterfest. Polinski said besides the ...
MORGANTOWN — Regardless of your personal schedule, if you live on the two-mile stretch of Fort Martin Road (County Road 53) between the Monongahela River and the Longview Power Plant, your day begins around 4:30 a.m. That's about the time a continuous parade of dump trucks begin running that short circuit, taking barge-delivered coal from a riverside loading facility up the rural, country road to the 700 megawatt high efficiency, low emissions power plant. Engines strain loudly against the weight when the trucks are full. With every pothole a thunderous slam of bed on frame when the ...
MORGANTOWN — A Kingwood man will spend four months behind bars in New York for attempting to send inappropriate pictures and videos to a minor. David Casteel, 48, was sentenced in Oneida County Court by Judge Robert L. Bauer on Friday, Joshua Bauer, assistant district attorney, ...
