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Increased salmonella cases in Mon County

MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Health Department is currently investigating a higher-than-normal number of reported Salmonella infection cases within the county. Health officials are actively working to determine whether these cases represent an ongoing outbreak or a closed event, as well ...

Personally Yours marks 40 years

MORGANTOWN – Working retail is personal for Shera Lorenze and her daughter Alexis Lorenze Warder. For that matter, it’s personal for Lauren Boczek and Barb Freeman as well. They are the women behind Personally Yours, a local boutique celebrating 40 years in Morgantown. It was 1986 and ...

Advocates respond to rescission of Biden-era Title IX transgender rules

CHARLESTON – After executive orders and decisions by the Supreme Court, the U.S. Department of Education has put back in place specific rules for biological girls and women that groups say will harm transgender girls and women. In an announcement Monday, the Department of Education reestablished rules set in 2020 during the first term of President Donald Trump in federal Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination in education based on sex, putting back in place biological definitions for sex. Among other things, the update formally rescinds Title IX rules set in 2024 by ...

'I love my neighborhood': Taylor appointed to 7th Ward seat

MORGANTOWN – “Honestly, my only thought was I love my neighborhood, and I want to represent it.” Gail Taylor, who was appointed to Morgantown City Council’s vacant 7th Ward seat Tuesday evening in a 5-0 vote, said she didn’t have immediate plans to enter the world of local politics, ...

BOPARC, Morgantown Curling Club launch curling league

MORGANTOWN – If you can’t wait until the 2030 Winter Olympics for the kind of action that only competitive curling can provide, you’re in luck. BOPARC and the Morgantown Curling Club have teamed up to launch a new curling league coming to the BOPARC Sports Complex – also known as the ...