MONONGAH – One of the first things you see when you walk into Asa and Dolores Davison’s room is a poster with a heartfelt message. “Choose faith over anxiety, hope […]
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Disney exclusive: UHS one of 50 schools in the nation earning the rights to stage ‘Frozen’ musical
Things are currently on the frozen side at University High School, and Monday morning’s 20-degree temperatures didn’t have a thing to do with it. Thank Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff, Hans, […]
After losing his daughter and wife months apart, Dr. Jon LaPlante to talk about luck, suicide and friends who care
Dr. Jon LaPlante used to shake his head and wonder at the marvel of it all. “I was the luckiest guy in the world,” the Morgantown native and former radiologist […]
‘We just had to have something beautiful come out of something so horrible’
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 […]
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 […]
