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Folklife event: ‘Celebrate our culture’
Fairmont State center slated to open in June
FAIRMONT — As the old haunted tale goes, there once was a teacher who stayed late at school to catch up on work. As dusk approached, she would see a little girl in her classroom who asked about her rag doll. After this happened a few times, the teacher finally made a rag doll and gave it to the girl, and she never came back.
When walking home soon after, the teacher saw the doll on the grave of a little girl, the same one who kept visiting her classroom.
That tale appears in Ruth Ann Musick’s collection of ghost stories called “The Telltale Lilac Bush,” and Connie Regan-Blake planned to tell it as part of her appearance Saturday evening — which happened to be Halloween — at the 2009 Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center Gala at the Colebank Hall Auditorium at Fairmont State University.
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‘Out of the panic period’
Economists provided their insights into the future of the local and national economy Wednesday at the annual Morgantown Economic Outlook Conference.
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‘It’s fun to be Irish’
“I may not be Irish, but it’s fun to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day,” said Charles Long as he sat down for lunch at McAteer’s restaurant Wednesday.
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Fairmont hopes to add to K-9 unit
The Fairmont City Police Department has plans to introduce a pair of furry four-legged officers to its fleet in the near future.
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East schools focus on transition
Schools in the East attendance area have truly embraced a new initiative.
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Former county teacher acquitted
Curtis Boylen, a former Marion County teacher accused of assaulting his former stepdaughter in 2007, was acquitted of all charges earlier this week following a four-day trial in Marion County Circuit Court.
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Arrest ‘expected’ in Fairmont woman’s death
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday denied that a suspect in the case of the death of a 45-year-old Fairmont woman is “at large.”
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Evidence in dispute
According to testimony delivered by a Marion County sheriff’s deputy Tuesday, 21-year-old Jason Clay Anderson showed “no emotion” while answering questions just hours after his infant son was pronounced dead on the afternoon of June 23, 2007.
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Dividing her time
Jo Marie Pitrolo always knew she would end up at her father’s dealership, Anthony Chevrolet in Fairmont. But that did not mean she would take the easy route and take advantage of her dad being the boss.
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Woman’s death concealed for six weeks
Kimberly Kay Gregory, a 45-year-old Fairmont resident found unconscious and badly beaten in a Monongalia County parking lot in late January, has died.
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BOE approves meal price increase
Lunch and breakfast prices are going up for Marion County Schools.
At its regular meeting Monday, the Marion County Board of Education put its stamp of approval on an increase in lunch prices.
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