This coming Friday marks the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day. Through the mid-1960s, many places in the U.S. were living an Earth nightmare, of sorts. Especially on this end of the country. In the Mountain State, rivers and creeks were beginning to show the lethal orange tint of acid ...
In spring 2020, at the height (or depth) of the pandemic, Kerrigan Hawthorne and her friends at Preston High School found themselves in Prom Purgatory. Everything in the state was shuttered and shut down, with most people quarantining at home, so you could forget about the social event of ...
MORGANTOWN – WVU celebrated a new partnership with California-based financial firm Robinhood on Wednesday – a partnership that will offer a financial education program for student-athletes. The celebration took place at the Hartley Club in the Puskar Center, overlooking Mountaineer ...
KINGWOOD — Last week, Preston High School started an E-Hallpass trial to gather information for possible fall implementation. The reason for starting to use it at the end of the year was so the school could collect data on how it works before fully committing, Principal Todd Seymour told ...
BY DAVE WILSON When news broke that a potential school shooting in Jackson County had been averted by the quick-thinking of a student, bus driver and other staff, school officials in Monongalia County began evaluating how a similar situation would be handled here. “Where are we at if this would occur right now? How would we do it? Are we doing the right things?” were a few of the questions Adam Henkins was asking when he arrived in the office that day. Henkins serves as director of Safe Schools, Athletics and Title IX for Monongalia County Schools and has kids in the school ...
Monongalia County school board members got to do something during their meeting Tuesday night that hasn’t always been possible over the past three years: They got to look ahead. With the tide of the pandemic rolling back out — for now— they discussed the first day of school for the ...
