MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee spent a bit more than two hours Tuesday mulling the House Hope Scholarship bills. Three proposed amendments that failed in the House failed again in committee and the bill passed as-is in a voice vote. HB 2013 establishes the Hope Scholarship ...
If you give your time to the Monongalia County school district and still haven’t received your COVID shot, then write down these dates and roll up your sleeve. A vaccination clinic for teachers and other employees will be from 3:30-8 p.m. Friday at Morgantown High School, with another ...
KINGWOOD - John Knotts, Principal of Aurora School and Krista Hayes, LSIC Chair for Aurora School of Isolation Funding brought a list of improvements they would like to make to the school library. Each Year the Board of Education receives Isolation funding for the Aurora School. Isolation funds are awarded to schools that are both small and geographically isolated. Aurora receives $100,000 a year, of which $40,000 is kept back for emergencies. All of the funds must be used at the Aurora School. “Emergency funds can be used to pay utility bills or other emergency ...
MORGANTOWN – House and Senate Democratic leaders gathered at the Capitol Monday morning to talk about some of their ideas to keep West Virginia's youth in the state. Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin, D-Greenbrier, called the state's youth “our greatest export.” He graduated ...
Another sports team at Morgantown High School has been sidelined to COVID-19, the district announced Monday. That was after two players on the boys lacrosse team tested positive the virus in two separate contacts outside of school the Friday before, Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate proclaimed Monday as Pierpont Community and Technical College Day at the Legislature. Sen. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia, who sponsored the resolution to make it so, also took time on the Senate floor to celebrate Pierpont's achievements and protest a plan to merge ...
