MORGANTOWN – Mary Beth Selby jokes that employees at Walmart and other local retailers probably have her on a list of some description. After all, not everybody makes a habit of rolling up to the checkout lane with shopping carts piled full of backpacks, markers, paper and colored ...
MORGANTOWN -- Pantry Plus More’s annual Back to School Bash takes a year’s worth of work to pull together. Thousands of hours volunteered and tens of thousands of dollars raised for a return on investment that’s way more about feeling than finance. That payoff arrives between the ...
MORGANTOWN -- MORGANTOWN — The need and the funding for food programs are heading in opposite directions according to one local official. “This is really not a political issue,” Tom Bloom said. “This is common sense. Of all the programs to cut, why would you cut the most essential ...
Pantry Plus More (PPM) is holding its 7th-annual Back-to-School Bash from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. The event first started in 2018 and has gone on to serve thousands of students. “What began as an event that served a couple hundred students has grown immensely,” said Amanda ...
If you have back-to-school shopping to do, this is the weekend to do it. Sales tax-free weekend West Virginia is bringing back the sales tax-free weekend for school supplies, starting Friday and running through 11:59 p.m. Monday. For that window of time, select types of clothes and ...
Growling bellies don’t care about intellectual growth or academic progress. In other words, if you’re a kid in Monongalia County, and you went to bed hungry last night (and plenty of kids here do), that means you also woke up hungry this morning. Which also means you’re probably ...