MORGANTOWN — From red to orange to yellow. Based on Harvard’s COVID-19 metrics for measuring rate of infection, new cases of COVID-19 have slowed dramatically in Monongalia County over the […]
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Mon teachers worried about returning to classrooms
MORGANTOWN — Nearly 87% of Monongalia County educators responding to a recent survey by the American Federation of Teachers say they don’t feel comfortable returning to their classrooms this fall. […]
Paper seeks clarification on Mon bar closure orders during Friday COVID briefing
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County bar and restaurant owners have express some confusion over the governor’s bar closure orders so The Dominion Post aimed to get some clarification during Gov. Jim […]
Justice extends Mon County bar closure to Aug. 3
Monongalia County bars will remain closed another 10 days, until Aug. 3. Gov. Jim Justice announced the extension of his previous bar closure order – via a new executive order […]
County slips out of ‘red’ zone, county commission offers recommendations
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County turned orange on Wednesday. Keeping the county orange — or anything but red, really — was part of the focus of a Wednesday work session between […]
No PRT this fall
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University will not be running its blue and yellow Personal Rapid Transit cars during the upcoming semester out of concerns about possibly spreading COVID-19 to students […]
Amjad, Marsh talk to city and county officials about rising COVID-19 cases
MORGANTOWN — “This is our big one,” West Virginia State Medical Officer Anye Amjad said of Monongalia County’s climbing COVID-19 numbers on Thursday. “If we cannot handle Mon County, how […]
Legislators explain why statewide COVID-19 mask order has no teeth
MORGANTOWN — When Gov. Jim Justice announced his statewide mask mandate on July 6, he made it clear he had no plans to enforce it. That left many scratching their […]
Weekend softball tournament flouts guidelines
Sanitarian insists on mask wearing and social distancing A softball tournament held in and around Morgantown over this past weekend did not always practice social distancing or enforce mask wearing. […]
Trump administration de-ices plans for international students
Many of the 1,600 international students on West Virginia University’s main campus in Morgantown will be able to continue their studies online because the Trump administration dropped its requirement that […]
