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TERRA ALTA — The smile says it all. On Thursday, 7-year-old Wyatt Dewitt was named an honorary member of the East Preston Eagles basketball team. He sat with the team and participated in a special tip off to start the game. He also got his own team jersey. Wyatt, a first ...
The number of stroke patients at eight rural hospitals — seven in West Virginia and one in Maryland — treated with medication to break up blood clots through WVU Medicine’s tele-stroke program continues to grow. The drug, tPA, is the only noninvasive treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for ischemic strokes, which account for 87% of all strokes. But for tPA to properly break up blood clots, the drug has to be administered within four-and-a-half hours of the stroke, which is where the WVU tele-stroke program comes in. WVU Medicine started the program ...
FELLOWSVILLE — In the Marquess, Sinclair, Colebank, Stevensburg area of Preston County, 18 Frontier phone customers are asking legislators and the State Public Service Commission for help. “I haven’t had a land line phone since November 2019,” Norma Murray said. Murray, 71, and her husband, Jerry, 79, have lived on Goff Hill, Moatsville, for 45 years. Their underground phone lines, they believe, have been there longer, since about 1964. They’ve been told the lines were damaged by mice, the couple said. One service person told them “you need snakes to get the mice,” ...
The Monongalia County Commission approved the documentation this week authorizing financial firm Crews & Associates to begin analysis of a potential Morgantown Municipal Airport TIF district. The increment generated by the district would be used to help finance the local match of the city’s $50 million runway extension project as well as the development of a nearby commerce park. The city, state or some combination of the two will have to come up with at least $5 million to accompany federal dollars. In a TIF district, a city or county — in this case the district would ...
“The thing that I most looked forward to was the fact that it actually snowed.” Adam Polinski, member of the Cooper’s Rock Foundation Board, hosted the ninth annual Winterfest at Cooper’s Rock, with plenty of winter activities. There were several open house activities for people to ...
