BLACKSVILLE — Two medical emergencies in recent months made a de facto ambulance driver out of Donna Varner. The first was when her husband suffered a heart […]
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Meal Ticket: Fundraising meals, week of 4-6-13
SATURDAY — 8 a.m.-11 a.m., Smithtown community breakfast, Smithtown Community Center. Menu: Sausage gravy and biscuits, home fries, grits, scrambled eggs, hot cakes, fruit, white and chocolate […]
Top students honored at banquet
A 4.0 GPA is one thing, but, as a group of stellar students showed Sunday night at Cheat Lake, success doesn’t just come from grades. It comes […]
There’s a difference between human trafficking and willing prostitution
FAIRMONT — For one professor at WVU, human sex trafficking is not always what it’s made out to be — and it’s often confused with a consensual […]
WVU prof: Criminalizing prostitution ‘not helping anybody’
MORGANTOWN — Alison Bass, journalism professor at WVU and author of “Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law,” said after researching and speaking with sex workers across […]
Brookhaven 5th-graders plant trees for Arbor Day
MORGANTOWN — A tree grows in Brookhaven. Well, actually several trees are growing on the grounds of Brookhaven Elementary School these days. Fifth-graders at the red-brick school […]
PEIA Task Force to host public meetings across state
CHARLESTON — The PEIA — Public Employees Insurance Agency — Task Force has mapped out a series of public hearings all over West Virginia. One will be […]
Relatively little money spent in House of Delegates campaigns
Relatively little money has been spent in five local House of Delegates primary campaigns. All but three party races are uncompetitive. In the 50th District, six Democrats […]
Leapfrog Group gives Mon Health an ‘A’
MORGANTOWN — Mon Health Medical Center recently received an “A” grade by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit healthcare ratings organization, for its commitment to meeting the […]
Preston Footnotes May 6, 2018
Glass sale Retired stained glass craftsman Dave Houser is cleaning out his shop and helping Arthurdale Heritage at the same time. Stained glass sheets of varying sizes, […]
