MORGANTOWN — A lawsuit filed this week in Monongalia County Circuit Court accuses MECCA 911 supervisors of bullying an openly gay employee and making racially insensitive and sexually inappropriate comments — […]
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Out with the bad air: Mon Schools discusses COVID guidance in its buildings for new year
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County’s school district wants to clear the air for 2022. Or at least help students and teachers coexist with it better during these pandemic days. The district […]
Preston officials discuss changing mass gathering rules (not because of COVID)
KINGWOOD — With another music festival likely to be held at Marvin’s Mountaintop at the end of June, Preston County officials met to discuss making changes to the county’s mass […]
Minnesota beats West Virginia 18-6 in Guaranteed Rate Bowl
PHOENIX — Ky Thomas ran for 144 yards and a touchdown, Mar’Kiese Irving added 129 yards rushing and Minnesota shut down West Virginia on defense to win the Guaranteed Rate […]
COLUMN: WVU, Neal Brown need to figure out offensive identity as 6-7 season comes to a close
As the Guaranteed Rate Bowl between WVU and Minnesota came to a close in the early morning hours Wednesday, trying to process the 2021 season as a whole was summed […]
No peace or goodwill in Congress
Peace on Earth and goodwill to men this time of year seems increasingly absent in diverse places. In America the noble objective seems to have long ago left the U.S. […]
Disappointing 2022 Pentagon budget
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed through the House […]
Editorial Encore: A thank-you note for the front line
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial originally ran March 23, 2020. While parts of our lives have reached a “new normal,” front-line workers continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic. This […]
2022, a year for self love
We sit down at the table to go over bills, paying them, balancing a checkbook, budgeting. We sit down at a table for an interview, for others to ask us […]
Clay-Battelle drains 10 threes in win over Valley Wetzel
BLACKSVILLE – In John Kisner’s 11 years as boys’ basketball coach at Clay-Battelle he’s had some teams that could shoot the basketball. The 2021-2022 version of the Cee-Bees might just […]
