It can be a tough world out there for kids. And that’s not counting the threats of gun violence in schools or the angst that comes from […]
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‘He was my hero’: Recalling the life and times of Joe George, a grizzled war veteran by the age of 20
Christmas Eve, 1944, the English Channel. More than 2,000 American and British servicemen were shoulder-to-shoulder on the overloaded Leopoldville, a 500-foot, 11-ton, Belgian passenger liner reconfigured as […]
Steering success: Favorite teachers honored by students in University Motors evening
Remember your school days? Of course you do. Everybody does. Maybe you were the kid in the front row who always turned in your homework on time. […]
Hubcaps on a pole: Spring is coming to Morgantown
They call it “The Rim Reaper.” That would have been a perfect opening for this story — an ominous nickname for the wooden pole that stands waiting, […]
Mildred Fizer marks 103rd birthday: Educator was the nation’s first female 4-H director
Mildred Fizer didn’t exactly shatter the glass ceiling 58 years ago. Rather, she simply etched her way through it, with grace and quiet confidence. “Somebody, some woman, […]
Hail, hail, Johnnie Johnson: Chuck Berry collaborator was from Fairmont
FAIRMONT — If it hadn’t been for the movie, “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Johnnie Johnson likely would have ended his days unheralded in St. Louis, a […]
Mon Health promotes healthy hearts with Walking with Warden every Tuesday
MORGANTOWN — February is Heart Month and Dr. Bradford Warden, Mon Health Heart and Vascular Center director and chief of cardiology, thought up a way to promote […]
Hot property (again): Fairmont’s iconic ‘Lava House’ is back on the market
FAIRMONT — It was 1966 when the first of the fully laden dump trucks began rumbling down from Pittsburgh on those pre-interstate roads. And Carol McWilliams couldn’t […]
Morgantown agency moving to acquire Pennsylvania Avenue properties
MORGANTOWN — The formation of the Morgantown Land Reuse and Preservation Agency was finalized in January 2019, making it the first of its kind in West Virginia. […]
Patty Cress: Special deliveries, every day, for the Morgantown mail carrier
Neither rain nor snow — nor the occasional school pageant or PTA meeting — could keep Patty Cress away from her appointed rounds as a Morgantown mail […]
