Jim Bissett

FEMA for firefighters: Fairmont launching wellness program for department

WESTOVER – An energy utility just teed off on The Source, and the Rev. Kevin Cain couldn’t be happier about it. “This is an incredible example of what can happen when a community comes together with a purpose,” the local clergyman and organizer said. Cain – “Rev Kev” to all who know him – is […]

MORGANTOWN – The world was a different place when Eddie Campbell Jr. walked across the stage at Wheeling Central Catholic High School to take his diploma in 1984. “I know I’m dating myself,” the Monongalia County Schools superintendent said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. That was on purpose. Given the seismic shifts in […]

MORGANTOWN – Darlene Dunn, to paraphrase an old song by Bob Dylan, doesn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Or, she said, on what day the rain will fall. “Scattered showers expected,” she said, chuckling. “Jim always makes it rain during the race. At least once.” She’s referring to her late […]

WHITE HALL – Forecasters are calling for a chance of thunderstorms today. Forecasters are also calling for a chance of thunderstorms Friday. And, while they’re at it, those same forecasters are predicting the same for Saturday and Sunday. Jarrod Petersavage can tell you all about it – even if he’d rather not. That’s because he’s […]

FAIRMONT – Chief Brian Starn of the Fairmont Fire Department is doffing a gold helmet in the direction of his co-workers these days. That’s because the department he oversees just achieved Gold Helmet status from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – for its participation in NIOSH’s national cancer registry. In fact, it’s […]

FAIRMONT – As the old adage goes, where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire. Which is just one of those natural-world occurrences by which Mark Jurick can surely abide, the Fairmont man said Tuesday afternoon. Let it also be known he was saying that while an electrician and plumber were going over his house, which is in […]

MORGANTOWN – With his flip phone and Lucky Strikes, Daniel Mansberger was the epitome of Old School Cool, as he talked about the schoolmates who graduated with him in 1956 at Morgantown High. “Yeah, I think we were a pretty good group,” he said, as the years peeled off like old paint to reveal a […]

FAIRMONT – For the past three years, Marion County Schools Superintendent Donna Heston and Kristin DeVaul, the district’s administrative assistant for human resources, have said they’ve both been targeted unjustly by the county’s Board of Education. Members Donna Costello, Kevin Rogers and the Rev. James Saunders, specifically. The above trio, they said, have harassed them […]

FAIRMONT — This is the fast-food jingle you know, even if you don’t know it. “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun …” It was the musical recipe for the Big Mac, the multi-decker sandwich sensation from the McDonald’s ad campaign that went viral in 1974 — or, what […]