Monongalia County’s school district is making masks optional for its students, teachers and other employees beginning March 3. Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. delivered the news during Tuesday night’s Board of […]
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Booster shots to begin for Mon students 12 and older
COVID didn’t get to take off for Presidents’ Day like the students in Monongalia County did Monday. When said students show up to answer roll this morning, however, numbers of […]
Charlie Heard: A better world — through barbecue
Grappling with 1,000 pounds of beef, as Charlie Heard is wont to say, isn’t easy. Even if he was smiling about it the whole time. “Oh, man,” he said, with […]
Minister and activist D.D. Meighen begins WVU appointment
The minister didn’t even make it two months into his retirement. “Well, you know how it goes,” D.D. Meighen said with a chuckle, Friday. Meighen, 78, started a new job […]
Former Mon BOE president gives failing grade to partisan school board election proposal
People elected to their county school boards across West Virginia already have a list of on-the-record mandates to which they must abide. Such as not pushing for family or friends […]
Mon students to keep masks on for now
That mask your kid has been wearing to school — for forever, it seems — is going to continue to be part of the daily wardrobe. At least for now, […]
Mon students among U.S. Presidential scholar candidates
President Lyndon Johnson had lofty hopes for the future when he strode to the center of the East Room in the White House on June 10, 1964. That was because […]
It all adds up: Mon Math Field Day winners announced
The tabulations are in, and Monongalia County has a new tier of Math Field Day winners, who will now advance to regional competition next month. Students took on the numbers […]
‘Don’t stop striving’: Morgantown teen pens book about the female pioneers of STEM
This is how you write a book. After the speeches and the requisite cutting of the ribbon with the giant, movie-prop scissors, Anna Brusoe stayed in orbit, long enough for […]
Mon students can roll up their sleeves for COVID boosters in coming days
Parents of Monongalia County middle school and high school students have until Feb. 18 to register their children for booster shots across the district to close out the month. The […]
