FAIRMONT – The drone of traffic on nearby Interstate 79 created an appropriate soundtrack for the Mon Health System ribbon-cutting ceremony here Wednesday afternoon. Said ribbon, in this case, was […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
Mon students are making the grade better in W.Va., local district reports
Courtney Whitehead spends her days dancing with data in Monongalia County’s school district. At Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting, she got to perform a love song. She was singing, […]
COVID a consistent fact in Mon schools
MORGANTOWN — It was business as usual in Monongalia County schools last week. Students shuffled in for class and teachers worked from their lesson plans. Football teams and marching bands […]
Mon BOE’s Kelly cruises into racers’ Hall of Fame
Mike Kelly, the Monongalia County Board of Education member, loves taking people to school when the light changes. He punches it – and he’s off to the races. Don’t think […]
Excess levy for Mon schools on track for renewal; election marked by low turnout
The excess levy for Monongalia County’s school district looked like it was on its way to being handily renewed Saturday, despite low voter turnout – and high numbers of poll […]
Watch for the Rhodes Family on ‘Family Feud’
It was kind of like art-imitating-life-imitating-game show. That’s how Peggy Sue Cochran recalls that daytrip and lunch in Charleston from a couple of years back, when she told her cousins […]
Lauren’s Wish
Mike Cole was gentle as he adjusted the photograph. Tender, even. Like a dad with a newborn. It was a smiling candid of his daughter, Lauren Cole, on the day […]
Mon’s excess levy helps fund emotional health component of county schools
MORGANTOWN — Many boosters of the excess levy for Monongalia County schools are being quite literal when they talk about how the measure is good for the overall health of […]
19 area seniors on track as scholars
MORGANTOWN — Nineteen area high school seniors are now in elite academic company. The students from schools in Monongalia and Preston counties were named semifinalists for the 2022 National Merit […]
The extensive foreign language offerings in Mon schools get their voice from the excess levy
MORGANTOWN — The two people engrossed in conservation a few summers back at Mylan Park Elementary School were actually speaking the language of the levy. As in, the excess levy […]
