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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“We are in the business of making people happy,” says Tom Licciardi, owner of Jacqueline’s Fine Jewelry. “So shopping for jewelry should be fun. We aren’t aggressive sales people. We are like family and we treat our customers like family.” And when Licciardi says that, he means it. His longest employee is his mother. Even the jewelry store itself…
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