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Blaney clears up confusion on absentee ballot requests

Monongalia County Clerk Carye Blaney is looking to clear up any confusion and head off potential frustration for voters as her office processes more than 12,000 absentee ballot requests. In response to COVID-19, the state ruled every voter is eligible to vote absentee in the primary ...

Class of 2020: The class of COVID-19

If you’re a high school senior, you likely watched this movie as a little kid. “Back to the Future.” Your dad surely has it on ancient DVD. Heck, he probably still watches it. Since you’ve watched it with him enough times, you know how the movie works. You know its ...

Brake looks back at tenure in office

At 39 months, Paul Brake’s tenure as Morgantown city manager is the longest since Dan Boroff held the position for 17-plus years before retiring in late 2010.Brake’s tenure ended on May 14 as he heads back home to Michigan and steps into the same role for Detroit suburb Royal Oak.When a new manager is hired this summer, that person will be the fourth to hold the title in a decade — sixth if you count the interim stints of Glenn Kelly and acting interim manager Emily Muzzarelli.Brake characterized his time in Morgantown as the most ambitious of his30-plus years in and around public ...

Virtual ceremony for Gene Vance Jr. Day

Cody Clayton Eagle, an 18-year-old high school senior and Morgantown native, is performing today in the virtual Gene Vance Jr. Day ceremony.Gene Vance Jr. Day, which historically honors those on the front lines of the War on Terror, is also recognizing everyone involved in the fight against ...

Credit and non-credit options now available for online course on COVID-19 contact tracing

The West Virginia University School of Public Health and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health are partnering on an initiative to recruit participants for a newly developed online course, Contact Tracing and Pandemic Response. Launched earlier this month, this course aims to train a ready pool of public health investigators in West Virginia. Now available as both a free, non-credit course for volunteers and as a credit bearing course for students, all participants who complete the training are required to assist with contact tracing ...

Sundale brings back therapy services

Fourteen people — residents and staff — at Sundale Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care remain positive for the COVID-19 virus, while 40 have recovered, the facility’s medical director said Friday.And with the number of infected residents going down, Dr. Carl Shrader, who is also a West ...