Make your weekend into a micro-vacation with these short itineraries. Each destination is located just a few hours’ drive from Morgantown, giving you more than enough time to escape into the woods and make it back for work on Monday. Canaan Valley Though settlers named this upland valley for the Old Testament land of milk and honey, don’t call it…
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Recent stories from Morgantown
With a Twist
Get a taste of Philadelphia at Philly Pretzel Factory. ➼ New Jersey-born WVU student Kendon Spering had a revelation one day when her parents brought their hometown favorite Philly Pretzel Factory pretzels to a WVU tailgate. “We laid them out for everybody to eat, and everybody went wild over them and asked where they could get them—they were so excited,”…
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Good Beans, Good Cause
A new roastery brings high-end coffees to town. ➼ Morgantown’s coffeeholics can now indulge their obsession and do a little good for WVU students at the same time with beans from Mountaineer Roasting. As a student, Rusty Isaacs expressed his passion for coffee through jobs in cafes around town. When he became a co-owner of Mountaineer Roasting, he learned the…
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Mood Lifters
Keep it light this summer with local products. Happiness is a State of Mine T-shirts ➼ Inspired when she learned of a news anchor who left the largely downer business of broadcast news to study positive psychology, Morgantown resident Margery Carson trademarked the phrase “Happiness is a State of Mine” and launched a line of printed clothing aimed at boosting…
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A Trail Town in Maryland
Beat the summer heat with a trip to nearby Frostburg. As temperatures climb this summer, a place by the name of Frostburg may start to sound appealing. Just an hour away off exits 33 and 34 of Interstate 68 in Maryland, Frostburg is named not for its frosty, 2,000-foot elevation—Morgantown sits at just under 1,000 feet—but for its early settlers,…
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