MORGANTOWN — Last November’s call by the Monongalia County Board of Education to reject the application of what would have been the first charter school in West Virginia was upheld […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
MTEC welding students compete nationally
Even with face masks and Zoom, some students are still inclined to snooze in class. Don Robinette’s classroom in the Monongalia County Technical Education Center proves a sonic challenge to […]
Food for thought: Meal deliveries keep Mon school drivers busy this summer
Before he became director of transportation for Monongalia County’s school district, Tony Harris drove a school bus for 20 years in Preston County. Which meant mountain roads and mountain winters, […]
‘It’s everything to us’: Elks, Vietnam vets honor American flag on its day
Just as member Vickie Trickett was going into the history of how Betsy Ross was enlisted to stitch the American flag, the hailstones began pelting the roof of Elks Lodge […]
A shot in the arm for fall: Mon Schools offers another vax clinic for students
Donna Talerico calls it a shot of normalcy for the coming school year. Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district, is referring to the COVID vaccine clinics coming […]
Home is where you write your tune: Sandy Pinkard inducted into W.Va. Country Music Hall of Fame
MORGANTOWN — Sandy Pinkard had to laugh when he got the news he was going into the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame this year. Not because he didn’t […]
Delving into the data: AI firm comes to Morgantown
It all started with a conversation John Chambers had with Dan Wright recently. Chambers is the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Charleston native who has never stopped being bullish on […]
Mon school district positive (in good way) on this year’s COVID cases
A total of 866 students in Monongalia’s school district received at least one shot of the COVID vaccination this past school year. And 1,600 teachers and other adults associated with […]
BOPARC’s concert series returns to Krepps Park, with a Morgantown-NYC connection
MORGANTOWN — After a year’s absence due to the pandemic, BOPARC’s “Sounds of Summer” concert series returns to Krepps Park Tuesday, June 8 with a shared chord between Morgantown and […]
A Mountain State vision, in cut glass
Falling autumn leaves in a scene that just means home, if you were born here or moved here and liked it. Swirling snow, touching hills and hollows, with soon-to-be followed […]
