KINGWOOD — Preston County Middle School hosted a retirement of more than 400 flags recently.The event was attended by 300 students and 30 school employees, along with members of the […]
Education
A look at bills that crossed the legislative finish line
MORGANTOWN – The 2025 legislative session wrapped up at midnight Saturday, and a number of bills we followed along the way completed their journeys. Most prominent among them is HB […]
Senate Holocaust education bill dies in the House – again
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is plowing through bills as it heads to close of session midnight Saturday, but the Senate bill to require Holocaust education in the public schools […]
Senate passes bills limiting cell phones in schools, plowing roads in Mon and Preston
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed bills launching a pilot project to plow secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties, and to limit student cell phone use in […]
Senate passes House bill stripping some university board of governors members of voting rights
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A divided state Senate on Wednesday passed the House bill stripping the voting rights from certain members of university governing boards. The vote followed an unsuccessful effort […]
Senate committee advances bill to remove voting power from 4 WVU BOG members
MORGANTOWN – The House bill that would strip the voting rights from the two faculty representatives, the classified staff representative and the student body representative on the WVU Board of […]
Senate committee adds third option to bill for schools to put guards on campus
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers’ efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in their hallways. The […]
Teachers Ascend Program: Drop into W.Va., stay a while – teach a while
For years, the mantra of attracting people to the Mountain State for work went along the following lines.It’s a script, as it turns out, hasn’t really changed much – even […]
Senate passes Holocaust education, pharmacist prescription bills
dbeard@domininopost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed a Holocaust education bill and a pharmacist prescription bill and sent them to the House of Delegates. SB 54 is the […]
House of Delegates sends Mon-Preston road plowing bill to Senate
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A bill to require the Division of Highways to contract for snow removal on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties barely squeaked out of the House […]
