As you may have seen in the news pages, Dave Raese is stepping down as The Dominion Post’s publisher and his son, Adam Raese, will be taking […]
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Movies and music: Watching ‘Elvis’ film, visiting Graceland brought mom back to me
by Cathy Cassata At my mom’s wake in 2007, my siblings and I decided to play Elvis Presley’s music quietly in the background. We wanted her friends […]
If you’ve made a house into a home …
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — It really was never supposed to be my forever home. Two years ago, I took one last look at what had been home […]
‘We watched in awe over and over the twin towers crumble like crackers’
Newsroom@DominionPost.com When recalling the events of Sept. 11, 2001, area politicians ponder the fear they felt that day — but also the togetherness that followed. Here, a […]
‘Have you heard? Have you heard?’
There were no guilt-by-association overtures delivered by Rabbi Joe Hample on Sept. 11, 2001. Back then, the leader of Morgantown’s Tree of Life Congregation was just “Joe,” […]
Readers recall when they heard the news America was under attack
Newsroom@DominionPost.com The image of those two planes flying into the World Trade Center on a clear September morning in New York City is not one most of […]
‘I can just vividly play it out in my mind’
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, touched every part of America, and Preston County was no exception. Preston County Administrator Kathy Mace was then a county commissioner […]
Area law enforcement recalls 9/11
MORGANTOWN—Westover’s Deputy Chief Scott Carl and his wife had just woken up to care for their newborn daughter when they turned on the television and first heard […]
Reporter looks to the experts to assign some meaning to 9/11
My Sept. 11, 2001, happened, in part, on Sept. 12, 2001. And Sept. 13, 2001. That’s when I began talking to experts in earnest — after everyone […]
‘We drew our kids in and hoped for the best’
The morning was already tragic enough, Eddie Campbell Jr. remembered. “Well, then we got the news of the plane going into The Pentagon,” he said, “and that […]