Charles R. Nailler wasn’t known for running track. However, the internationally renowned mechanical engineer and coal mining innovator was always in a sprint to make things better in his adopted […]
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Mon district orders 1,650 Pfizer doses for middle-schoolers, plus other students
High school students 16 and older across Monongalia County’s school district are rolling up their sleeves for their second COVID shot Thursday, May 13. Clinics are being held throughout the […]
Mon middle-schoolers start lining up for COVID vaccine next week
Monongalia County’s school district is set to vaccinate 1,500 of its middle-schoolers next week. That’s how many 12-to-15-year-olds in the county have signed up for their first dose of the […]
Speaking the same language: Chinese immersion camp for Mon elementary students to be held next month
A couple of summers ago in Monongalia County, when pandemics were the subjects of dystopian science fiction novels, a lesson in tolerance was being talked out in the classroom of […]
Four wheels, not flowers, for Mother’s Day
Mothers and daughters have … debates … on occasion. If you’re a mom, that means you started out a daughter — which means you already know all about it. Especially […]
Mon Schools has already registered 400 in anticipation of new Pfizer shot
The push is on. Monongalia County school officials are already moving in anticipation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s likely approval of the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 to […]
COVID cases send 51 students into quarantine
A total of 30 students were sent home from Mountainvew Elementary School after two classmates tested positive for COVID, the district announced. Those students will quarantine for 14 days, as […]
Graduation dates, times set for Mon’s three public high schools
Everybody knew it was coming, and when it did, the only thing to do was laugh — or go all deadpan, as Emma Williams did. “This is extremely fitting for […]
High court hears charter school case
Who’s suing who? That was the question the justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court had for the attorney representing the board of what still could be the Mountain State’s […]
Proms and the promise of a better year for Mon County Schools
Rented tuxedos and gowns just so. Corsages, the newly waxed car in the driveway for the cruise to the hall and the requisite cellphone snaps in front of the fireplace, […]
