Senate Education Chairwoman Patricia Rucker announced a challenge to Senator Craig Blair for leadership of the chamber. Blair has been poised to replace Rucker as education chairwoman, an announcement he’ll […]
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Hospitals participating in Save a Life Day
On Sept. 8, all 55 West Virginia counties are joining together to host the largest day of free naloxone (Narcan) distribution in the state. And Mon Health System hospitals will […]
UHS golf team fields promising squad
Last season, the University golf team did not achieve their annual season-goal, which is always the same — qualify for the State Championship match by finishing in the top two […]
University volleyball earns multiple wins in home-opening quad matches over Buckhannon, East Fairmont
MORGANTOWN — Despite beginning the season a little later than some teams, the UHS volleyball team and head coach Nick Lusk have shot out of the gate quickly and have […]
No, Gov. Justice, we don’t need new lakes
In typical Jim Justice fashion, the governor threw out a half-baked answer to a serious question about flood prevention during his anything-but-COVID briefing Aug. 23: “West Virginia needs to build […]
Stop calling everything you disagree with ‘anti-democratic’
by Tyler Cowen One of the most disturbing trends in current discourse is the misuse of the term “anti-democratic.” It has become a kind of all-purpose insult, used as a […]
‘Quiet quitting’ — not just for the ‘silly season’
by Clarence Page Just as I was wondering whether various crises were coming too fast to allow our usual “silly season” of oddball late summer news, an appropriately weird-sounding social […]
Police offer tips to prevent vandalism after seeing rise in incidents
The Morgantown Police Department has recently been seeing a slight uptick in vandalism reports — mainly in the downtown area of the city. MPD Chief Eric Powell said most of […]
Brawl in the Family: A tale of the goalpost, the philosopher and a certain football game
Henry, Freddie, Mousey and Fish could tell you all about it — if you had a time machine. We’re talking about the Backyard Brawl, the storied college football rivalry between […]
Frederick Galloway
Frederick (Fred, Freddie, Pappy) Lee Galloway, 82, of Morgantown, passed away on Aug. 28, 2022, at Mon Health Medical Center. He was born Aug. 12, 1940, in Morgantown, son of […]
