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Foreclosure forcing housing program out of West Run Road facility
8+ hour, 49+ min ago (462+ words) MORGANTOWN " Fallout from Bartlett Housing Solutions" 2024 financial collapse continues. The West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness has been informed it must vacate the facility at 10 West Run Road. The agency has operated various programs at the site since October 2024, when…...
'Special Commissioner' to decide what Morgantown owes firefighters
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (425+ words) MORGANTOWN " A June 18 order from the West Virginia Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of prohibition filed by the city of Morgantown in a seven-year legal battle with its firefighters. Monongalia County Circuit Court Judge Michael Simms" 2025 order…...
Outgoing Miss West Virginia reflects on reign
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (754+ words) By Toni Milbourne For the Dominion Post MARTINSBURG " One year ago, Courtney Bearer stood on the stage of the Miss West Virginia competition and heard her name announced as the state's newest titleholder. On Saturday, a new group of contestants…...
Miss Morgantown, Miss Clarksburg Winterfest's Teen win titles at Miss West Virginia Competition
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (296+ words) BY TABITHA JOHNSTONFor the Dominion Post MARTINSBURG " Elizabeth Romanek beamed, as she was crowned the winner of the Miss West Virginia Competition, at Airborne Church on Saturday night. Her win was not a surprise to many, after the Miss Morgantown…...
WVU BOG approves tuition and fee hikes for Fiscal Year 2027
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (471+ words) MORGANTOWN " The WVU Board of Governors approved tuition and fee hikes for Fiscal Year 2027 during its Friday meeting. Resident undergraduate students will see their tuition and fees rise by $156 per semester, from $5, 376 to $5, 532. Other groups: nonresident undergraduate, $912, from $15, 216 to $16, 128; resident…...
WVU announces research partnership with Johns Hopkins University
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (382+ words) MORGANTOWN " WVU President Michael Benson on Friday announced a new research partnership with Johns Hopkins University. WVU is contributing $2 million and JHU is contributing $5 million of philanthropically secured funds to a three-year joint funding program, Benson told the Board of…...
Morgantown's Wisman headlines Class AAAA All-State softball team after stellar senior campaign; teammate Grace Robinson and University duo Campbell, Masoner also named to first-team
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (962+ words) SOUTH CHARLESTON " As Maddie Wisman goes, so goes Morgantown High School softball. The 2026 state championship title run made by MHS, led by senior Maddie Wisman, is one that will be talked about forever. Not only within the lines of Monongalia…...
Nashville performer and 'Mountain Stage' host to headline Italian festival
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (524+ words) CLARKBURG " On a rainy afternoon in 2019 in a rehearsal space at West Virginia University, Kathy Mattea was making like your nonna's kitchen. That is, she plopped down cross-legged on the floor, to render her artist-in-residence duties at the College of…...
Petersburg infield duo leads WVSWA Class AA All-State softball team
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (1139+ words) SOUTH CHARLESTON " Talk about a strong left side of the infield. Class AA state champion Petersburg certainly had it. Now that side " third baseman Miley Tingler and shortstop Shyane Tawney " leads the Class AA All-State team, released Wednesday by the…...
Column: Local staple, Cool Ridge, celebrates its 40th anniversary
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (387+ words) Every college town has a place that defies explanation. The kind of place where first-time visitors wander in looking for one thing and, 30 minutes later, leave wondering what just happened. A place where the shelves seem to change every week,…...