FAIRMONT – When it rains … it floods? Sure seems like it these days, Marion County’s emergency management director Chris McIntire said Thursday. In the meantime, he said, he’ll take that flood of money he just received from FEMA any day. The federal agency that responds to natural disasters last week earmarked nearly $450,000 to […]
MORGANTOWN – Everybody got an A on Thursday, Eddie Campbell Jr. said. The superintendent of Monongalia County Schools was referring to all the parties that answered a threat that morning at Morgantown High School. An anonymous call to Morgantown Police around 9 that morning promising violence at the school on Wilson Avenue sent everyone scrambling, […]
CHARLESTON – Tax collections in West Virginia for the first three months of fiscal year 2027 are in the black, no thanks to September personal income tax collections which took a dip. According to a monthly report released Thursday by the Senate Finance Committee, tax collections for the general revenue fund for the fiscal year […]
MORGANTOWN – Butler Memorial Hospital, Clarion Hospital, Frick Hospital, Latrobe Hospital and Westmoreland Hospital, as well as their affiliated physician practices and outpatient facilities, officially joined the West Virginia University Health System on Thursday. Previously operated under the Independence Health System brand, the hospitals will begin operating under the WVU Medicine brand immediately. “This marks […]
KINGWOOD – An early morning alert about concerns related to a gas odor in the Aurora School kitchen resulted in a decision to dismiss students at 10 a.m. Thursday. School staff contacted the Preston County Emergency Management Office, and students and staff were relocated to the Aurora Volunteer Fire Department. The move was to allow […]
For West Virginia University student Sophia Bell, preparing for a career in medicine has meant putting her education into practice while giving back to the community she calls home. The Morgantown native and WVU School of Medicine exercise physiology sophomore tutors classmates in advanced STEM courses as a National Tutoring Association-certified tutor at the WVU […]
CHARLESTON – The U.S. Senate adjourned Wednesday night for a recess prior to the Nov. 3 midterm general election, with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito hitting the campaign trail with a pending deal on permitting reform and the passage of the college athletics bill. After months of bipartisan negotiations between Republican and Democratic senators and the […]
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MORGANTOWN – In a world of Division, Equity and Inclusion controversy and partisan politics, Max Flomen, West Virginia Native American Studies Program coordinator, is asking for harmony. “Peace is critical to humanity’s survival, regardless of anyone’s background or politics or feelings about the sort of issues of the day,” he said. “The question of peace […]
MORGANTOWN- Terra Cafe clears up misconceptions regarding its closure and ownership in a Facebook post Tuesday. According to the announcement, Terra Cafe is owned by “an independent group of individual investors,” not by the March-Westin Co. According to the West Virginia Secretary of State, Terra Cafe LLC is owned by Kevin Salisbury, Craig Behr and […]
MORGANTOWN – On Oct. 9, 1776 – just over three months after the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, and some 86 years before West Virginia achieved statehood – the Virginia General Assembly passed an act subdividing the District of West Augusta. And thus, Monongalia County was born. On Wednesday, Monongalia County […]
