FAIRMONT — It was 1966 when the first of the fully laden dump trucks began rumbling down from Pittsburgh on those pre-interstate roads. And Carol McWilliams couldn’t wait. She knew […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
Education officials worry HB 4299 might be unloading additional conflicts in school safety
Is House Bill 4299 a loaded gun — unto itself? That’s what the leaders of West Virginia’s two unions for teachers and others who work in school buildings are worried […]
Kindergarten registration going on now for Mon Schools: District recognized nationally for its work in early education
Kindergarten registration is happening now for Monongalia County Schools, and parents and other caregivers registering the children in their households will receive preferential placement — if they get their applications […]
Ukrainian Community of Morgantown plans events to mark anniversary of invasion
A group of area musicians are taking up the Ukrainian cause with guitars and amplifiers this evening in Morgantown. The “Free Ukraine” concert begins at 6 p.m. at the 123 […]
Patty Cress: Special deliveries, every day, for the Morgantown mail carrier
Neither rain nor snow — nor the occasional school pageant or PTA meeting — could keep Patty Cress away from her appointed rounds as a Morgantown mail carrier. For 42 […]
Renaissance road trip: Mon teachers, administrators travel to Va. to tour the STEM school that is inspiring the proposed one here
LEESBURG, Va. — One student smiled and nodded hello to the tour group as she entered a glass-walled laboratory-styled space and began poring over a collection of charts, graphs and […]
Tuskegee Airman Roberts worked just as hard waging peace
FAIRMONT — You never leave a wounded bird up there, on its own. That’s what they called them, the shot-up B-17s and B-24s, crippled by the German ack-ack fire and […]
Make a date for the ‘Wine & Shine’ Festival Saturday
With Valentine’s Day 2024 now on the books, let’s just say that – well – it could have gone better. The store-bought bouquet was hardly vase-worthy. And the over-priced, under-cooked […]
Mon Schools wants to be an official part of the opioid settlement talks
A letter from Monongalia County Schools will be going out in the next couple of weeks or so, requesting admission to an exclusive, critical club in the region. The district […]
Mon BOE: ‘I don’t think it can be over-stressed, what we’re trying to do here’
ALEX, the artificially intelligent medical mannequin and current star of Monongalia County Schools’ MedEd program, can do a lot of things. Board of Education members discovered that during their meeting […]
