Say you’re a kid. And you just lost your mom or dad. Maybe it was a all at once. A heart attack. Or car wreck. They were there one afternoon […]
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METC student on proposed Renaissance Academy: ‘Build it’
Summer Johnson drew a big laugh during Friday’s panel discussion on the Renaissance Academy. That’s the name of the standalone school devoted to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) that […]
METC job fair brings 60 businesses to campus
Students at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center set about crafting their careers Friday morning. The tech campus on Mississippi Street hosted a job fair featuring some 60 businesses from […]
Mon Schools receive money for MTEC after all
The venue couldn’t have been more appropriate, Eddie Campbell Jr. said Thursday. Campbell, Monongalia County’s superintendent of schools, was talking about Gov. Jim Justice’s appearance the day before at the […]
‘Her birthday is even more memorable’
Relatively speaking, Carmella Di Claudio was going to cast a pretty big shadow, anyway. Newborns weighing nearly 10 pounds — 9.6, to be exact — have ways of doing that. […]
Mon Schools tapped into technology
Back in the prehistoric technology days of the year 2000, West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing had to pull the plug on WVU. Not that it wanted to, necessarily. It […]
UHS seniors set to make a commitment to the service during Military Signing Day this month
A total of 181 high school seniors across West Virginia made a commitment to America’s military services last year. That includes the 32 who either enlisted in the Army for […]
Jennifer Garner to deliver keynote at GameChanger event
It’s a pretty grim roll call. Every five minutes of every hour of every day in America, someone will die of a drug overdose. A son. A daughter. A girlfriend, […]
Taking flight: Pierpont aviation career fair set for April 11 in Harrison County
FAIRMONT — No matter the age of the pilot or the scale of the machine, flying is flying. A budding group of pilots and aviation engineers from middle schools and […]
Michael Green: Still teaching art (and making it, too)
Michael Green wasn’t exactly putting his best face forward Wednesday afternoon, but it was still pretty good. And to be fair, it was an art lesson on the fly. That […]
