Mon County students getting ready for band camp and football practice this summer will be able to show their faces – for now, at least. The district is lifting the […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
State Department of Education accepting public comment on charter school policy
What’s your opinion on charter schools in West Virginia? Now’s your chance to put it in writing with the state Department of Education. The department is accepting public comments on […]
Summer Avalanche designed to stop the learning slide in Mon Schools
MORGANTOWN — Call Tuesday the second first day of school for Mon County. Or the pre-first, perhaps. Tuesday’s the day the Summer Avalanche rumbles across the district. The Summer Avalanche […]
Writing it down: Social worker pens book as a reverse-retirement gift to her clients
In the annals of human experience and human interaction, consider … the cheeseburger. Not the kind you grab at the drive-thru, and certainly not the ones wrapped in cellophane you […]
The doctor is in: Aspiring physician and MHS senior Ryder Shinaberry to take part in national youth conference on medicine
MORGANTOWN — Paramedics are the people you don’t want to see — and can’t wait to see at the same time. Ryder Shinaberry, who will be a senior at Morgantown […]
State Department of Education launches book project for young readers
MORGANTOWN — The state Department of Education is writing the book on country music megastar Dolly Parton. In a matter of speaking. Or reading, that is. The department’s West Virginia […]
Million Dollar Baby(Dog)
MORGANTOWN — Sharon Turner had a million questions when the State Police knocked on her door Wednesday afternoon. Two hours later, she received a million-dollar answer from Gov. Jim Justice […]
Mon BOE ready to slide into July’s ‘Summer Avalanche’ enrichment program
Those rumbles you heard during Tuesday’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education were a good thing. BOE members and school administrators discussed particulars of the sprawling “Summer Avalanche” […]
Working in school, working for work: Fall registration for adult learners starts Thursday at MTEC
Greg Dausch was using one hand to talk on his cellphone and the other to steer his shopping cart. It was the Monday morning equivalent of a grocery run for […]
Love, faith (and marriage, too): Clergy couple to begin church work in Morgantown
In matters of faith, when you hear the call — you heed the call. Well, eventually you do, Martha Ognibene and Bart Thompson said with a chuckle this past Friday. […]
