Storms Cause Power Failures and Road Accidents Across Morgantown
High winds and heavy rain knocked down lines and disrupted services, causing power outages from 90 minutes to three hours. Morgantown saw widespread outages, with the Monongalia Fair not canceled but Daybrook's Clay District Fair affected. Hospitals activated generators as crews worked to restore service and clear downed lines.
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Morgantown
Westover
Daybrook
St. Vincent Pallotti Hospital
Richard Owens
Monongahela Power Co
Owens
Prosecution divides over state lottery law enforcement
Area prosecutors across three counties set hard lines against lotteries and raffles while others treat enforcement as a lower priority. Marion County's Frank Mascara vows to stop bingo and any raffles as illegal, and Monongalia County's Joseph Laurita Jr. urged stricter enforcement, prompting mixed public reactions and ongoing debates about changing the law.
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Susan Harman
Dominion Post
Monongalia County
Joseph A. Laurita Jr
Marion County
Frank C. Mascara
Mascara
Laurita
West Virginia University Foundation
Taylor County
Waters
Area students return to classes as kindergarten expands
About 37,000 area students resume school across Mason-Dixonland with public kindergarten now offered for the first time. WVU registration begins with 15,000 expected to enroll. Monongalia leads non university student counts while Taylor Preston and Monongalia counties plan open dates from Aug 30 to Sept 20.
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Mason-Dixonland
Monongalia County
Preston County
Monongalia
Taylor
St. Francis
Morgantown
Preston
West Virginia University
Mountainlair
Coliseum
WVU
Tri-County
St. Francis High School
Act of Education
Scotts Run Settlement House
Peatress
Westover
Central
Flatts
Woodburn
Sarver
Lenox joins youth and seniors in community project
In Preston County Lenox residents led by 79 year old Nina Forman and 72 year old Elva Wilhelm unite the Lenox Homemakers Club and Lenox 4-H Club to back the ComBet program. The Lenox Community Building, built in 1952 on land donated by the Formans, is debt free and serves as a hub with support from Cuzzart Centenary and Wesley Chapel churches and local coal and trucking firms. Bollinger, a school employee, also built the adjacent community park with a pavilion fountain and landscaping.
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Sara Hilling
LENOX
Nina Forman
Lenox Homemakers Club
Preston County
Elva Wilhelm
Brandonville Pike
Pleasant District
Clet
Association
William Bollinger
Wesley Chapel
Cuzzart
Preston Coal
Bollinger
Preston County Public Schools
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Sunday Dominion Post
Need Council
Waynesboro
West Virginia
Virginia
State Department of Labor and Industry
Weight Watchers Magazine
Dept. P-1
Madison Ave
New York
N.Y
Canada
Senate
House
Board of Education
Lawrence G. Derthick Jr
Cass
Grant
Union
Chisler
Blacksville
Morgantown High School
University and Monongalia General Hospitals
Richwood Avenue
Terry Lee Swaney
Monongahela Avenue
Gem Street
Ron Rittenhouse
Swaney
Foundation
James L. Waters
Neil A. Reed
Young and Old of
Dominion-Post
Frank Parke
Lenox Community Building
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