Reba Louise (Withrow) Kirk, 95, of Morgantown, passed away Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, at Stonerise of Morgantown. She was born Aug. 5, 1926 in Charleston, a daughter of the late […]
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Senate Energy OKs bill concerning bank boycotts of fossil fuel companies
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate Energy Committee approved a bill on Tuesday that allows the state treasurer to put financial institutions that openly boycott fossil energy companies on a publicly […]
Legislative Democrats propose sales tax cut linked to state budget surpluses
MORGANTOWN — Legislative Democrats on Tuesday presented a plan to use a portion of the state’s budget surplus to reduce the sales tax. “Folks are struggling just to pay their […]
Mon schools giving a ‘wait and see’ on more snow days this week
Weather or not, Monongalia County Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. will likely have to make some more snow day decisions for the rest of week. Tuesday was one of those […]
A look at bills introduced Tuesday, Jan. 18
MORGANTOWN — Here is a look at some of the bills introduced on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. SB 415, to cap severance tax […]
We can learn from Colleyville synagogue attack
Emotions have been everywhere over what happened in Colleyville Saturday night — relief, gratitude, anger, fear, frustration, exhaustion. The attack on Congregation Beth Israel ended without the bloodshed of the […]
Fake 2020 Electoral College certificates
by Will Bunch On Dec. 14, 2020, 20 prominent Pennsylvania Democrats gathered in Harrisburg — in a ceremony shorn of some of its pomp and circumstance because of COVID-19, but […]
Pets or kids? How about neither?
by John M. Crisp Pope Francis seems like a decent man whose humility and enlightened thinking sometimes put him at odds with more traditional segments of the Catholic Church. But […]
Morgantown’s MLK celebration discusses a Dream that hasn’t quite come true, participants say
Al Anderson’s jukebox rasp cut through the Zoom proceedings during Morgantown’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances Monday afternoon. Anderson, the Osage octogenarian, is known these days as a […]
One missing person found; Cheat Lake man still missing
UPDATE: Elizabeth Randolph was found alive and safe in Ohio on Tuesday, according to a childhood friend. MORGANTOWN — Police are looking for two Morgantown area residents who each went […]
