167th Airlift Wing honors frontline workers
The 167th Airlift Wing honored frontline COVID-19 responders with a flyover of hospitals in the region as part of the Department of the Air Force’s Operation American Resolve on Wednesday.
Preston reps comment on Newburg water troubles
By Jessica Nelson and Jeniffer Graham Read the first three parts of the series HERE. Contaminants in the water pouring into Raccoon Creek outside Newburg from a discharge borehole connected to the Whitetail mine are within federal and state regulations. However, environmentalists are ...
Teacher and staff appreciation
Morgantown High School students place a sign thanking the school for planned graduation day. Two yard poster from MHS and Mountaineer Middle School thanking teachers and staff. To the right, two yard posters from MHS and Mountaineer Middle School thank teachers and staff.
Save the Tygart, chief engineer dispute over Newburg borehole
By Jessica Nelson and Jeniffer Graham Read Parts 1 and 2 of the series HERE Representatives with Save the Tygart Watershed Association and the chief engineer for a closed coal mine disagree on the affects of water coming from the mine might have on the environment. In a March 10, ...
Homeowners, DEP continue to wait for permanent water source
By Jessica Nelson and Jeniffer Graham Read Part 1 of the series HERE. Well water contaminated by seepage from a closed underground coal mine in Newburg is unusable and four homeowners have waited a year for a mandated solution. After numerous complaints, the West Virginia Department ...
Floral shop owner talks pandemic impact on Mother’s Day
Kammie Lantz was hastening to the hydrangea stems when the phone rang. Over the sounds of rustling and clipping — flower shop sounds — she answered, with a shoot of a chuckle. “Thank you for calling. Yes, we’re definitely busy, but I’m not complaining. How can I help?” She had been giving variations of that greeting all morning. That’s because Kam’s Florist, the Terra Alta enterprise she owns and operates with her husband, Jamie, had been tilling for Mother’s Day. And Mother’s Day, even with a COVID-19 corsage, is still Mother’s Day. Except when ...