KINGWOOD — On Saturday, Food For Preston will host the 13th annual Empty Bowls dinner for Preston County . This year's dinner will be 4-7 p.m. at the Kingwood Community Building at 115 Brown Ave. The cost is $15. Children under 10 will eat for free but will not receive a free bowl. All ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Naomi Davenport notched her fifth double-double of the season as West Virginia cruised past Kansas State 60-30 on Saturday in women’s basketball. Davenport netted a team-high 16 points and 15 rebounds, adding five assists as well. Tynice Martin just missed a ...
No one could get a firm fix on the Yiddish expression being bandied about in Edith Rechter Levy’s Morgantown living room last Sunday. A’kapura, Hitler. “Kapura” means “sacrifice,” in Yiddish. Except when it doesn’t. Especially when it’s attached to the name of the architect of the Third Reich, the man whose decisions led to the deaths of 6 million Jews in World War II. Most of Levy’s family, including her blond-haired, blue-eyed father, perished in the death camps. The grim accounting would have included Levy and her brothers Leo and Lucien, were it not ...
West Virginia — and surrounding states — is in the middle of winter, which often means colder weather outside and higher heating bills inside. To help customers minimize energy costs, while maximizing safety and comfort, Dominion Energy West Virginia offered a variety of simple, inexpensive conservation tips for natural gas heating, water heating, cooking and clothes drying, in a recent press release. Heating A furnace or boiler accounts for 65 percent of the natural gas used in the home. These low-cost, and even no-cost, tips can help keep out cold air and maximize comfort ...
Scholarship applications are being accepted for the 2019-’20 year through Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia, Inc. According to a recent press release, YCF says it oversees 38 diverse scholarship funds primarily to benefit students in north-central West Virginia. Scholarship applications are due March 25, and recipients are announced in May. Two new scholarships are available for the first time in 2019, the release stated. The North Elementary Scholarship is for high school graduates who completed fifth grade at North Elementary School and exhibit academic ...
MORGANTOWN — In combined efforts between The Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia (ACCA) and Americorps, volunteers braved the brisk winter cold to build an enclosure for a barred owl who is looking to move into educational programming with the non-profit. Katie Fallon, one of the ...
