MORGANTOWN — December will be here before you know it, Eddie Campbell Jr. said Wednesday. And the superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district wasn’t even talking about the off-and-on flurries […]
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Suncrest Middle COVID case results in quarantines for classmates
Tuesday’s positive COVID diagnosis of a Suncrest Middle School student has put an additional 14 classmates into quarantine, the district said. No other teachers or staffers were impacted, Superintendent Eddie […]
MHS students, families to receive first Pfizer dose Wednesday
MORGANTOWN — Roughly 300 students, plus family members, will queue up Wednesday at Morgantown High School for their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. With this school year winding down, […]
Pictures of emotion: UHS art students craft watercolor cards to nursing facility residents
Remember your first art show from kindergarten? It was during the afternoon your teacher turned you and your classmates loose with watercolors. You didn’t know what a “muse” was then, […]
MHS head majorette Mirannda Wotring has halftime in her DNA
MORGANTOWN — On autumn evenings at the end of the week before COVID clamped down, Pony Lewis Field at Morgantown High School was a gridiron destination. Bleacher seats, full. Anticipation […]
COVID-19 quarantines 68 students at South Middle, Mason Dixon
MORGANTOWN — Two positive COVID-19 cases at South Middle School are being classified as an outbreak, the district said Thursday, as the virus was apparently spread from student to student […]
Mon commission seeks directors for its park facilities
Monongalia County Commission may be buying a couple help-wanted ads soon. The commission is seeking a park supervisor to oversee its network of parks across the county, and another director […]
Mon BOE discusses student vaccines, summer enrichment program
Sara Anderson gave a dose of pandemic pragmatism during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education. “It’s not enough,” she said. The board member was talking about […]
Mon’s school district set to vaccinate students
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County high school students will roll up their sleeves for the coronavirus vaccine starting next week, the district announced. Clinics for students 16 and older will be […]
Far out: “Country Roads” turns 50
Any ex-pat West Virginian who has ever punched up “Take Me Home, Country Roads” on the jukebox in a flatlands bar can tell you. The late John Denver’s far-out ode […]












