The city of Morgantown is reprogramming Community Development Block Grant funds from 2017 and 2018 to help fund just under $700,000 in accessibility improvements to the old Woodburn School building. […]
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Check your treats to avoid any tricks this Halloween
I’ll always remember the Halloween I went as a 7 Up can, based on a commercial that was popular at the time. My father fashioned a costume for me by […]
David Wesley McDonald
David Wesley McDonald, 55, of Independence, passed away Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at his home surrounded by his loving family. The son of the late Vincent and Marcilla McDonald, he […]
Gertrude Virginia Boggs Hamilton Gentile
Gertrude Virginia Boggs Hamilton Gentile, 104, of Star City, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at her residence with her family by her side. She was born in Braxton […]
PSC sets hearing date for Mon Power proposal to end contract with Morgantown Energy Associates
MORGANTOWN — Mon Power and its FirstEnergy sister company Potomac Edison will have a Dec. 11 public evidentiary hearing before the state Public Service Commission regarding their plan to end […]
Morgantown woman gets 2 years on federal drug charge
MORGANTOWN — A Morgantown woman was sentenced to two years in prison on a federal drug charge regarding her involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, said Bill […]
Scrap Metal Art
What’s that? You say you don’t know much about art — but that you wouldn’t mind having a go of it with a plasma cutter, welding torch and pile of […]
Trade war payouts growing on larger farming operations
If only it was enough to keep him down on the farm. That is, Gov. Jim Justice, whose own farming operations received the maximum possible subsidy payout of $125,000. That’s […]
Warren still dodging price tag for Medicare for All
One of the hottest debate topics among Democratic candidates for president is health care. Surging Elizabeth Warren has embraced Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal. We’ll get to Warren’s problems […]
Washing our heads of plastic
Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a ban on those small plastic bottles for hotel guests that contain shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, moisturizer and other personal […]





