On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb smuggled into the back of Pan Am Flight 103 turned the plane into a fireball, some 30,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland. A total […]
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On the edge of your seat: MHS band ‘uninstalls’ a fundraiser at Milan Puskar stadium
It was a couple of Julys ago at a COVID-abbreviated band camp near Morgantown, and this band was most assuredly working it, on an almost-sweltering day. Meet the renowned Red […]
Divisive politics hurting public schools, California educators say
Poetry, Robert Frost said, makes you remember — what you didn’t know you knew. Which, in many ways mirrors the findings of a study on life in America’s public schools […]
Storms fell trees, knock down pavilion
Lashing winds and storms roiled through the area Wednesday, toppling trees and knocking down a pavilion that was under construction at Mason-Dixon Park. “It wasn’t so much the rain as […]
Parents need to work on emotional homework post-COVID, Mon Schools administrator says
Elementary school scenes from a pandemic: There was case of the little girl couldn’t stop crying one morning. In those pre-vaccine days, she was convinced her grandmother, who was coughing […]
Morgantown High’s LiTEArary Society: Writing the book on words, ideas and reading
So, how do you cross a book desert? One page at a time. Well, check that, Rania Zuri said. First, you have to get a book into the hands of […]
Chris ‘Big Red’ Hewitt on the mend after heart scare
Here’s a holiday story about counting one’s blessings, even as nagging, and potentially life-threatening, circumstances keep stacking up — like the dishes after your Thanksgiving dinner today. In the annals […]
Cheering in rarified air: Mary Roush, WVU’s Mountaineer, recognized nationally
Let’s go, Mountaineer. Mary Roush, who is wearing the buckskins and toting the long rifle this year as the Mountaineer mascot of WVU, just achieved a new pinnacle of success. […]
Two AmeriCorps volunteers join North Elementary to manage its agriculture program
If you can remember mimeographed handouts and overhead projectors in school, you also know the old “My dog ate my homework” dodge — which has been rendered all but obsolete […]
Farmington No. 9 service set today: 78 miners died in the 1968 disaster
The desk clerk at the motel in Fairmont had to look twice. “Huh?” he wondered. “What the heck was that?” The paperclips and pens collected in that old coffee mug […]
