Six seek two Monongalia County Board of Education posts
Five challengers and one incumbent vie for two Monongalia County Board of Education seats with a May primary looming. Ruth Ice plans re election while Homer Evans may or may not run. Other filed candidates include Clyde Richey K Douglas Bowers Jr Melvin Sarver Sharon Mayfield and Claudia Faucette.
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Shelby Young
Dominion Post
Monongalia County
Central
Western
Ninty
Monongalia
John Pyles
Buck Day raises 1047 for Morgantown Youth Center
Buck Day organizers report 1 047 31 donated by local citizens to fund improvements at the Morgantown Youth Center. The Youth Council will meet Tuesday to plan spending, with plans for furniture for a stereo room and extra ping pong tables.
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Morgantown Youth Center
Walter Davis
Morgantown High School
Mary Ann Hart
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Cathy Rose
Phil Galik
St. Francis High School
Jim Hurst
Gary Truman
Catherine Powell
Dominion Post
Buck Day
Morgantown
Dan Payne
Ridge residents assured of new water system
In Chestnut Ridge near Philippi Barbour County the Farmers Home Administration backed a plan for a modern public water system after years of water from dip wells and streams. FHA officials and Rev Frank Peoples worked with Horner Brothers Inc to draft a preliminary plan with a contingency cost estimate, showing feasibility despite high pumping costs and low local income.
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Philippi
Chestnut Ridge
Barbour County
Farmers Home Administration
J. Kenton Lambert
Sunday Dominion Post
Lambert
FHA
Frank Peoples
Peoples
Horner Brothers , Inc
Clarksburg
Chart Morgantown’s Future traffic tops poll as No 1 problem
Monongalia County residents named traffic as the leading issue in the Dominion Post survey Chart Morgantown’s Future. Among 183 respondents or 55 percent, traffic dominated the top three priorities, followed by education and schools with strong support from all age groups.
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Seventh Ward
Jerome Park
Panorama
Monongalia
Dominion Post
Shelby Young
Super Doctor
America
John C. Ludlums
Survey Continues as Eyesore Complaints Grow in County
More than 50 residents respond to the Dominion-Post project Environment survey, targeting government officials and landowners over trash on Monongalia County hillsides and roadsides. Respondents blame dilapidated buildings, surface mining and polluted roads, sharing specific local sites and mines as eye sores.
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Sunday Dominion- Post
Monongalia County
Morgantown Kiwanis Club
Chaplin
Laurel Point
Vic Solomon
West Virginia
WVU Graduate School grows despite federal funding loss
WVU reports steady growth in graduate enrollment and program quality amid shrinking federal fellowships. Dean John Ludlum notes modest reliance on outside funds and highlights strong gains in social work political science and creative arts while physics and chemistry show declines.
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Harvard
Cornell
Yale
Princeton
Brown
Columbia
Ludlum
WVU
Ohio
Illinois
Wisconsin
Stanford
WVVU
WVU Bureau of Institutional Research
Creative Arts
An Ludlum
WVU Grad
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Joe Straface
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Straface
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Ralph W. Phillips
Marvin White Jr
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Charles J. Whiston
David L. Nixon
Kermit R. Mason
House of Delegates
Payne
Patty Stevenson
Florence Merow
Merow
Fred
Pat) Smith
Chart City
Nancy Conners
By Shelby Young
Dominion-Post
Fairmor Drive
Fourth Street
Westover
Division of Forestry
Cllege of Agriculture and Forestry
David E. White
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