MORGANTOWN – While cruising through a long list of bills during a Saturday floor session, the House of Delegates debated at length and divided sharply on a bill to allow resorts to set up cigar bars or lounges. Supporters cited freedom and tourism while opponents cited public health and ...
Firefighters go above and beyond for dog On Valentine’s Day evening, my wife and I had the opportunity to witness the Morgantown Fire Department in action and gained a greater respect and appreciation for their bravery, resourcefulness and skills. Walking along the reservoir trail in ...
OLLI offers wonderful learning opportunities I loved my 35-year career teaching theater design and history at WVU. I retired in 2013. In 2006, a friend in the English department suggested I teach a class for OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at WVU. I put together a six-week ...
Thanks for making MLK Day event a success On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, I want to thank everyone who made our 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Jan. 16 a success. We could not do this without the financial support of the City of Morgantown. We ...
State leaders’ failure shown on Chaplin Hill Another winter, another chance to damage your car driving on Chaplin Hill Road, the northern entrance to Granville, Star City and Morgantown off Interstate 79, Exit 155. It only took some freezing weather in December to regrow the potholes ...
Let’s create jobs cleaning up old mines A lot of work remains to be done to reclaim abandoned mine lands in West Virginia. Before passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, thousands of coal mines had already been abandoned across the country, leaving a legacy of ...