FAIRMONT— An academic program at Fairmont State University that is the only one of its kind in the nation now has a new dean of the same. Emily Swain will lead Fairmont State’s Middle College program for youth in foster care wishing to pursue higher education. It’s open to ...
It was an emotional yet inspirational moment Wednesday afternoon during the unveiling of a Sept. 11 commemorative mural outside Cheat Lake Volunteer Fire Department. The mural is meant to honor the bravery of first responders and veterans after the Sept. 11 attacks that claimed 2,977 ...
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 ...