If you have a daughter with lofty dreams, Sept. 28 just might be her day. That’s the date of the third-annual Girls in Aviation Day at the Robert C. Byrd National Aerospace Education Center in Bridgeport. It’s an easy flight plan, says the Mountain State Chapter of Women in Aviation ...
FAIRMONT — You could see right through one of north-central West Virginia’s top industries in the 20th century. Well, through a lot of it, anyway. The industry was glass-making. In Fairmont, a premiere provider was the Monongah Glass Co., in the Marion County city’s bustling ...
FAIRMONT — In skies achingly clear over north-central West Virginia 30 years ago, the late Rose Cousins, by all airborne accounts, was a woman content. During those lofty, leisurely afternoons, when the crosswinds minded their manners and the clouds made just like a Bob Ross painting, ...
FAIRMONT — An outlay of $2,000 will take you places when your robot is planning the road trip. That’s how much money Falcotronix, the robotics club of Fairmont State University, received this week from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. The club will use the grant to ...
FAIRMONT — That turtle ambling along at Fairmont State University the other day didn’t realize he was officially certified. Falcon Park, an outdoor expanse which sprouted at the school from the pandemic in 2020, was recognized this week by the National Wildlife Federation. The ...
FAIRMONT — This ain’t your dad’s drone. In other words, the students flying them next weekend at Fairmont State University won’t be using the buzzing crafts for aerial shots of pleasant, pastoral scenery — or literal, lofty perspectives of houses for the real estate ad. The ...