No bullies on Ava Morton’s watch. Ava, an eighth-grader at Mountaineer Middle School, is known for the way she positively intervenes to quell bullying in her school perched high atop […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
David Riggle: Connections key for the teacher, coach and honorary degree recipient
The look. Every teacher and coach knows the look. Well, check that. It’s not so much a “look.” It’s more like an expression, really. Joy. Relief. Maybe even disbelief. You […]
Remembering Kim Osborne: Morgantown woman known for her generous spirit and fun-loving nature
Forget about ever having a bad day in Kim Osborne’s presence. One of her patented, droll asides would have you reduced to guffaws in about a second. In the next […]
Military dad home from yearlong deployment surprises daughter at school
That old rule they say applies to baseball just might hold true if you’re a kid whose dad gets deployed to war zones for a living, too. Especially if you’re […]
GOP nets state wins for ag commissioner, auditor
Kent Leonhardt, West Virginia’s incumbent Commissioner of Agriculture, defeated challenger Deborah Stiles Tuesday night. The Republican Leonhardt had amassed 485,101 votes — nearly 70% — to the 215,030 ballots cast […]
Marion County: Rick Garcia takes narrow victory in House
Tuesday night’s contests for the state House of Delegates in Marion and Taylor counties yielded one close contest and wins by incumbents in others. Rick Garcia, a former Marion […]
‘I read it in The Dominion Post’: Wolf excited for her leadership role at paper
Candace Wolf, The Dominion Post’s new general manager, has an abiding respect for deadlines. She was making them for publication, in fact, while she still had a curfew. That was […]
WVU Justice for Palestine group plants compelling argument on Woodburn Circle
On a cloudy Monday morning on the downtown campus of WVU, Anna Avalon halted what had been a brisk stride carrying her across Woodburn Circle enroute to the Mountainlair Student […]
Norm Julian: The Writing Life … well-lived
Norm Julian and Al Anderson would have been great in a buddy movie. Heck, the visuals alone would have gotten it. There was Al, a kinetic Black man who sounded […]
Wisdom Academy still proceeding with plan, even with no official word (not yet) from city
The only thing that board members and other backers of the proposed Wisdom Academy charter school didn’t talk about Thursday night – was the most pressing thing. And that’s the […]
