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W.Va. earns ‘B’ grade in social distancing

West Virginia earned a good solid B when it comes to social distancing, but Monongalia County earned an even better A and Preston County was given an average C for data collected March 26. Unacast, a New York technology company that collects and examines and analyzes phone GPS information, has assembled a national “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” to see whether people are following directives from health care officials to stay home to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, Unacast used the reduction in the total ...

Heroes on the frontline

No matter how bad the COVID-19 pandemic gets, fires will break out, people will commit crimes and others will need immediate medical attention. Those emergencies mean first responders, such as firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel, have to keep working through the crisis. ...

CDC, WHO say safe to read newspapers

There is a lot of uncertainty in the world these days, but subscribers can rest assured that reading a print copy of The Dominion Post, or any other publication, is still considered safe by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the CDC’s ...

Albright fire victim identified

ALBRIGHT — A social media fundraising post and friends have identified the family who lost a teenage son and their home in a Thursday fire in Preston County. Albright Fire Chief Owen Evans told The Dominion Post that a juvenile had not survived the house fire, but four other people escaped by jumping from a second story window. Evans said the roof had already partially collapsed by the time firefighters reached the scene. A Facebook fundraiser was set up to raise $10,000 for Dwayne DeWitt and his family. Dillian Raymond Livengood, who is sponsor of the fundraiser, ...

1 in critical condition, no confirmed cases since Thursday

An official from Sundale Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care facility in Morgantown said one of its male residents who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has recovered and is back in the facility Sixteen residents, however, remain positive for the virus and are in isolation at ...

Residents take a page out of history during COVID-19 crisis

A Westover resident and a homesick West Virginian who can’t return home for the duration of the pandemic are both doing what they can to build a sense of community and camaraderie during the COVID-19 crisis. Sharon Chapman, 71, of Westover, has started lighting an electric candle in a ...