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Kids camp encourages lifestyle of fitness, healthy eating

MORGANTOWN —Sunday definitely was not a day of rest at the Triune-Halleck Volunteer Fire Department. Oh, there wasn’t a fire going on —  but lots of energy was being burned. That came by way of all those sprinting and stretching drills. They were done  by a group of youngsters ...

Morgantown History Museum ready to premiere documentary series

MORGANTOWN — He's a cobbler, a 50s-era rock n' roll star and the unofficial mayor of Osage. Now Al Anderson is about to become the first subject of the documentary series “Morgantown Memories,” produced by the Morgantown History Museum. The episode will premiere at the museum, located ...

WVU researchers hope to make, sell baking soda from carbon dioxide to defer costs of technology

WVU researchers want to make baking soda from carbon dioxide. Research  will focus on turning carbon dioxide in power plant flue gas into commercial-quality sodium bicarbonate — baking soda — aiming to use product sales to lower the cost of carbon capture technology, according to a press release from WVU. Current techniques can increase the cost of the cleanest coal-fired ultrasupercritical power plants by more than 50 percent, according to data in the annual technology baseline report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The $1 million project is being funded by the U.S. ...