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Quarantine numbers are getting attention

A recent COVID-19 incident at Mountaineer Middle School was indeed the first case of a student-to-student transmission of the virus in Monongalia County school building. Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. made that official during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. That case ...

More COIVD cases in area schools

University High School went into Monday with another positive COVID case of a student, which in turn put an additional 17 students, plus one teacher, into quarantine, the district announced. That means the school on Bakers Ridge is beginning this week with the way ended the last ...

FODC youth craft series begins today

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  Celebrate Water Day with environment-themed crafts and activities throughout the week led by Friends of Deckers Creek. Through collaboration with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Youth Environmental Program, ProjectWET and Planet ...

Students get extension to apply for Promise Scholarship

Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — In a recent special meeting, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission voted to extend the deadline for  high school seniors to apply for the Promise Scholarship until July 1. Because of challenges stemming from the COVID-19 ...

Did curiosity kill the cat?

When I was nine years old, I asked my mother and older brother how people knew so much about the anatomy of the eyes and ears of humans. My mom didn’t want to tell me because she thought the answer would upset me. “Curiosity killed the cat,” my brother warned me. But my curiosity was ...