Local musicians and music students work in harmony at WVU’s student-run record label. ➼ It’s difficult out there for a working musician. You have to deal with getting gigs, getting press for those gigs, getting paid, building an audience both in-person and on social media, navigating the brain-numbing world of bookkeeping and taxes, and sorting out personality conflicts in your…
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Monongalia County Circuit Court Judge Russell Clawges shares his thoughts on jury service. ➼ If and when you get called to jury duty in Monongalia County, your friends and co-workers will say one of two things. Some, considering themselves a little too popular with the court, “I’ve only lived in the county for 10 years, and I’ve already been called…
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A different party every game-day weekend. RVers are the all-in fans of Mountaineerdom. Not content to make just a day of a game, not willing to worry about hotel availability, they drive their beds to Morgantown with them. And their kitchens. And their front porches. They are the hosts of the two-day tailgate. Lots where these pavement partiers have paid…
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Upgrades to a downtown hotel cater especially to the WVU community. ➼ In 2016, a group of colleagues at a national hotel chain in Philadelphia went rogue. Their new Scholar Hotel Group re-opened the former Chestnut Hotel in downtown Morgantown this fall as its third property in a university town. Scholar Hotel Group has carefully chosen its locations to cater…
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Space Gal and WVU alumna Emily Calandrelli giving a TEDx talk in 2015.Courtesy of WVU College of Law. Free climate change and energy conference will feature national science TV host. Emily Calandrelli is an Emmy-nominated television host, executive producer of FOX’s Xploration Outer Space, and author of a children’s science and math mystery series. Now, the WVU alumna—nicknamed “The Space…
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