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Meals on Wheels, partners continues to help out community

In mid-March when COVID-19 forced community restrictions, leaders of the Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels expected the nonprofit would be inundated with requests for more meals. And it was. But the real surprise was the more than 20 people who stepped in to volunteer, and the response ...

BOP: 1 prisoner tests positive for COVID-19

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday that it will expand rapid testing of inmates transferred to quarantine sites but also that no transfers are scheduled to West Virginia at this time. Among those quarantine sites are FCC Hazelton and FCI Gilmer in West Virginia. The bureau ...

WVU student move-out pushed back to May 18

A Tuesday email from WVU informing students living in residence halls that they could return to Morgantown to move out beginning May 11 caught county officials off guard, according to Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom. WVU pushed that start date back to May 18 on Wednesday in ...

Friendship Manor allegations still an issue for some

A Morgantown Police Department investigation into allegations of abuse at Friendship Manor found it was just a communication problem. Not everyone agrees. Amanda Nichols, whose mother-in-law lives in Friendship Manor, alleged that the Morgantown Kiwanis, landlords of the Van Voorhis ...

Mon schools to hold small-scale graduation ceremonies

After a spring of unprecedented circumstance for the seniors of Morgantown High, University High and Clay-Battelle, some pomp is finally set to commence this summer. Small-scale graduation ceremonies are scheduled for all three campuses on June 25, Monongalia County Schools ...

Sundale confirms death of resident

Sundale Rehabilitation and Long Term Care facility in Morgantown confirmed a 100-year-old female resident of the facility died late last week of COVID-19, its fifth virus-related death since early April. Carl Shrader, Sundale’s medical director who is also a WVU Medicine physician, said ...