Marcia Malone Slaven (born Margaret Marcia Malone) passed away peacefully at Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown after a short illness on Dec. 19, 2022. She was born on July […]
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Ronald Cleavenger
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ronald “Ron” Lee Cleavenger M.D. on Dec 13, 2022, at Medical University South Carolina, Charleston S.C. Ron was a […]
Neil Waldeck
Neil P. Waldeck, 52, of Reedsville, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, at home after battling a debilitating illness with amazing courage. He was born in Kingwood, on Dec. 19, […]
Morgantown runway cost, timeline grow as city pushes for federal dollars
MORGANTOWN — When the Federal Aviation Administration signed off on the Morgantown Municipal Airport runway extension in 2019, the project was anticipated to take five years at a cost of […]
Independence RB Judah Price wins Kennedy Award
BECKLEY — Judah Price’s first three years in high school were best summarized as “second best.” The Independence senior running back finished as the state runner-up as a freshman and […]
With trading card scam, Trump goes from national threat to joke
After all that Donald Trump has put America through, he owed the country a good laugh. Last week, he delivered spectacularly, if unintentionally. Trump teased a “major announcement” that turned […]
Democracy is looking a little healthier
by Doyle McManus More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from democracy toward authoritarianism. The […]
An old-school English teacher encounters ChatGPT
by John M. Crisp Several weeks ago the artificial intelligence company OpenAI released ChatGPT, a language model software that aspires to the Holy Grail of interaction between humans and their […]
Hanukkah 2022: ‘We all need a little light in the darkness’
It’s no small potatoes, getting a bunch of guys together in that tiny kitchen in that tiny synagogue like that, but Rich Cohen always finds a way to make it […]
Robert Lepley
Robert Lyndon Lepley, 74, of Fairview, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022, at Fitzwaters Assisted Living in Fairmont. He was born Dec. 24,1947, at Fairmont, a son of the […]
