MORGANTOWN — People aren’t coming to Morgantown for vacation. They’re not spending months planning to fly across the country for a week-long getaway to north-central West Virginia. But they are coming. And in record numbers. Four years after ...
The West Virginia Botanic Garden (WVBG) invites visitors to learn about nature and the history of the Botanic Garden during weekly docent tours, a new program as of last year. A docent is someone who acts as a guide, typically for a museum or zoo. At the WVBG, docents are volunteers ...
At the beginning of November, the pandemic claimed — though belatedly — another local business. Gritstone Climbing + Fitness was foreclosed upon, and at the end of November, the business was sold at auction to Unified Bank. Its doors have been closed since. The rock-climbing gym had a ...
MORGANTOWN — Fresh off a two-year, COVID-induced, government-sanctioned kneecapping, the tourism industry is roaring back to life in Monongalia County. Critical to that resurgence, Visit Mountaineer Country CVB Executive Director Susan Riddle explained, is the Monongalia County Tourism ...