Still not convinced? About digging into a cupcake with a craft beer, we mean. “Hey, all you need to do is come downtown on Saturday,” Anna Carrier […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
W.Va. fourth in U.S. for pre-K education
It’s the kind of educational ranking West Virginia officials actually don’t mind reading about or talking about. That’s because the Mountain State has just placed near the […]
Meet Mary Quarterman: Queen for a Day
FAIRMONT — If you attended the Johnnie Johnson Blues and Jazz Society concerts at Palatine Park in the early 2000s, when Johnson, the boogie-woogie piano player and […]
How a song from West Virginia ended up marketing tourism in Oklahoma
The redbuds are in full bloom at the Core Arboretum. And so was the delighted laugh this past Thursday afternoon of a certain director of the old-growth […]
Mon BOE moves to adopt levy rates Tuesday night
While Monongalia County Schools is engaged in the marketing of the Renaissance Academy, the proposed standalone school for science, technology, engineering and math that would be the […]
WV BeerFest: Country Roads Trust and a cold one, also
Take me foam, country roads. When you belly up to the inaugural WV BeerFest on Saturday at Mylan Park, you won’t just be celebrating all the craft […]
Running for Katy’s life (and yours, too)
FAIRMONT — Kaitlynn Jade “Katy” Newbraugh, by the accounting of all who knew her, was a top-achieving kid who cared about her family, her neighbors and the […]
Comfort Zone Camp: ‘I knew I was gonna be OK’
Say you’re a kid. And you just lost your mom or dad. Maybe it was a all at once. A heart attack. Or car wreck. They were […]
METC student on proposed Renaissance Academy: ‘Build it’
Summer Johnson drew a big laugh during Friday’s panel discussion on the Renaissance Academy. That’s the name of the standalone school devoted to STEM (science, technology, engineering […]
METC job fair brings 60 businesses to campus
Students at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center set about crafting their careers Friday morning. The tech campus on Mississippi Street hosted a job fair featuring some […]
