By Jade Ruggieri About the size of South Carolina, Sierra Leone faced an 11-year Blood Diamond Civil War. Two years after the war ended, Princess Sarah Culberson visited her newfound family and saw privilege in a different way. She saw a recovering community in need of support. A need ...
By Jade Ruggieri From 9 a.m. to noon June 4, the Monongalia County Beekeeper’s Association will be cleaning up, planting flowers and adding pollinator hotels to the flowers at 200 Holland Avenue, Westover, at the Triangle. Anyone with gloves and gardening tools who would like to ...
By Jade Ruggieri The West Virginia University Campus Food Garden is sprouting more growing space for an urban farm and learning center at the Abundant Life Greenhouse in Westover. While the Evansdale garden is 200 square feet, the Westover expansion boasts a budding 1,800 square ...
By Jade Ruggieri The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of West Virginia recently opened its statewide office at Mountaineer Mall, 5000 Green Bag Road, in Morgantown. With a mission to provide hope, support and education for people with bipolar or depression, DBSA is a nationwide, ...
This month, the Visit Mountaineer Country Convention and Visitors Bureau (VMCCVB) welcomed two new staff members. Joe Vessecchia, operations manager, and Tami Wood, group sales manager. These staff additions coincide with the retirement of Kay Fanok, assistant executive director and conference, sports and group sales manager, who has spent the last eight years with the organization and more than 25 years in the hospitality industry. This week, the VMCCVB will launch a “Tourism Talks” engagement series to provide just-in-time tourism resources to the organization’s partners. The ...
As the state’s COVID-19 team has warned was likely in the last several briefings, West Virginia has officially hit its highest number of residents hospitalized with the virus to date — 1,043. The previous peak saw 1,012 people admitted with the disease. Even more concerned, said ...
