After a cold and dreary start to spring, we’re finally starting to see weather that almost looks like summer. And like the perennial flowers in well-tended gardens, the local farmers […]
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Police have a toxic masculinity problem
by Kyoko Thompson My partner says I make everything about gender. If I’m honest, he’s probably right. As a women’s health and rights specialist, I tend to interpret the world […]
Pa. town saved by fracking fears Biden will kill its prosperity
Thirty years ago, Jason Capps was a young man with ambition, but when he looked around Canonsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where he grew up, all he saw were opportunities slipping […]
Bridgeport takes advantage of University mistakes, Indians defeat Hawks 8-2
With a week left in their regular season, there are several things that the University baseball team knows about itself. The Hawks are undoubtedly talented, capable of playing flawless defense, […]
‘We all have to do this’: Mon middle-schoolers receive first COVID vaccine
Sam Watson kept looking down at the adhesive bandage on his arm. “One down, one to go,” the Suncrest Middle School eighth-grader said with a grin. Sam and his classmates […]
Local businesses require masks despite loosened restrictions in West Virginia
MORGANTOWN—Mask mandates have been lifted in West Virginia for vaccinated individuals, but signs requiring customers to wear masks still hang in the windows of many local businesses. “It doesn’t seem […]
Mon Commission approves tourism money, cuts rental fees at 4-H building
MORGANTOWN — “We’re open for business and you’re going to let people know that.” Monongalia County Commissioner Jeff Arnett offered as much Wednesday, moments after the commission approved $150,000 for […]
Lorenzo Turner
Lorenzo James “Jim” Turner, 72, passed away at home of natural causes on Friday, May, 14, 2021. He was born Oct. 11, 1948, in Morgantown, a son of Trubie Lemard […]
U.S. House passes McKinley bill regarding cameras in VA hospitals
MORGANTOWN – Following on the heels of the sentencing of Reta Mays for the murder of eight veterans at the Clarksburg VA hospital, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a […]
Kingwood Water Board discusses Herring Road Project
KINGWOOD — Changes in the Herring Road Project schedule were discussed Tuesday evening during a meeting of the Kingwood Water Board. The Herring Road Project is a two-part contract that […]
