MORGANTOWN — WVU recently announced its lineup for this season’s Festival of Ideas. It will cover topics ranging from suicide prevention to civic engagement to genetically engineered food. […]
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After three decades, Donny Williams retires from DOH
MORGANTOWN — For nearly 31 years, West Virginia Division of Highways (DOH) District 4 Engineer Donny Williams has made the state’s highways and byways his business. Now […]
Preston Memorial CEO addresses leaked financial reports
KINGWOOD — Preston Memorial Hospital (PMH) is meeting and exceeding a lot of industry benchmarks, CEO Melissa Lockwood said last week. That’s despite internal documents that show […]
Classic cars: Model T club shows off collection at auto show
ALPINE LAKE — They called themselves the Four Vagabonds. No, it wasn’t a 1950s singing group. It wasn’t even the ‘50s. Think 40 years earlier. “Between 1915 […]
Kingwood vacant building ordinance sees results
KINGWOOD — As Kingwood nears the first anniversary of having a vacant building ordinance, it is seeing results. Councilman Mike Lipscomb spearheaded implementation of the law, which […]
War hero and presidential candidate John McCain has died
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak […]
Joe Romeo’s I-79 hosts the Dog Days of summer adoption event
The Dog Days of summer might be over, but Saturday they came back for an encore. It wasn’t because of the heat, but at Joe Romeo’s I-79 […]
Justice names Armstead, Jenkins to Supreme Court seats
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice has named House Speaker Tim Armstead and Congressman Evan Jenkins, both Republicans, to two Supreme Court seats that opened after almost a […]
Chief Deputy Al Kisner marks 40 years of law enforcement
MORGANTOWN — From dispatcher and jailer to deputy and sheriff, Monongalia County’s Chief Deputy Al Kisner has seen a lot in his 40 years in law enforcement. […]
Morgantown hosts sister city from China
MORGANTOWN — Located about 400 miles south of Beijing in China’s Quanshan District, the city of Xuzhou is an urban center with a population of 3.4 million […]
