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. […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
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 […]
Mon schools: ‘This will be a good time to get your COVID booster, if you haven’t already’
Please pass the COVID. That’s precisely what Donna Talerico hopes won’t happen during Thanksgiving break for Monongalia County’s public school students. “This will be a good time to get your […]
Going back to school: High Court makes Hope scholarship official — while its board discusses what to do next
The shifting landscape of education for West Virginia’s K-12 students will likely get even more so in the coming years. The first ripples came last month when the state Supreme […]
‘Trees to Go’ — for a good cause at Mon Health
Kathy Pompili is a most decorated fundraiser at Mon Health Medical Center. That’s because the fundraising for which the longtime auxiliary member is known is most decorated. It was Pompili […]
Three schools remain on lockdown as search for murder suspect continues
South Middle School, Mountainview Elementary and the Monongalia County Technical Education Center were on a working lockdown Wednesday while authorities continued the search for murder suspect Chance Austin Williams. Police […]
An apple for the teacher? University High’s FFA delivers
Amid all the angst last week over Election Day and Amendment 4, not the mention those low marks in reading and math, Monongalia County’s Board of Education received a respite […]
WVU Mountaineer Week crafts fair, quilt show draw diversity of artisans to campus
Robin Frey sent a cascade of notes flying from the neck of his Martin acoustic guitar Friday afternoon in the WVU Mountainlair. The sound was high-lonesome, to be sure. But […]
A snack, to say ‘Thank you’: Suncrest Elementary honors service members for Veterans Day
At Suncrest Elementary School, an external sound system regularly carries morning announcements out to the parking lot. Visitors rolling in Thursday morning quickly learned what the theme of this day […]
