This time next week, school buildings across Monongalia County will be thrumming with activity as students file in for the start of the 2024-25 academic year. Look […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Dudley Woodbridge’s spellbinding road trip to West Virginia
Did a Salem tourist conjure second thoughts in Morgantown? Stewart Williams started wondering that when he happened upon a certain footstone a few weeks back at Oak […]
Mon Schools ready to hit the books for the coming year
Monongalia County school buses will again be on the road three weeks from now. The first day of school for the district is Aug. 20, when around […]
Arts commission in Fairmont celebrates its 40th anniversary Saturday
FAIRMONT – On a rainy afternoon 11 years ago in the band room at University High School … Neil King was bopping for all he was worth. […]
More and more women pilots enrolled in Fairmont State aviation programs
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 […]
Thursday is W.Va. Donor Day: Aims to raise awareness about importance of organ donation
Tammy Bishoff celebrates that letter. Because every time she re-reads it, she knows that Brayden, in essence, is still alive. Every time she re-reads it, she knows […]
Marion County educator among state Teacher of the Year nominees
FAIRMONT — Salad bar of the future? That’s the hope of Marion County educator Krista Blankenship, who was recently named a West Virginia state teacher of the […]
Mother’s love beyond the veil? Missing grave marker reawakens enduring mystery in Morgantown
Ron Rittenhouse blinked. And blinked again. “He just looked like he was sleeping,” the chief photographer of The Dominion Post said, remembering the day he saw little […]
Move over, Babydog: Jim Justice is getting a bobblehead, too
First Babydog, now Big Jim. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee announced Friday that Justice, the sitting West Virginia governor and current candidate […]
Signature McDonald’s sandwich — with a north-central West Virginia connection
FAIRMONT — This is the fast-food jingle you know, even if you don’t know it. “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed […]
