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Register for MTEC through Jan. 5

Apply Online: MTEC online registration runs through Jan. 5. Visit mtec.mono.k12.wv.us or call 304-291-9240 to find out more This is why you go to school, Nathan Newbraugh said with a grin on a mellow spring evening in 2019. He kicked the work-site dust from his boots, unbuckled his tool ...

Social media misinformation not helping fight against COVID

by Olivia Murrayomurray@dominionpost.com The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated with the completion and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of not one but two vaccines for the virus.  The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first to meet the ...

Mon schools face plans, pandemic, petition

First request for charter school doesn’t make it Eddie Campbell Jr.’s adherence to planning, and The Plan, helped him survive, and thrive, in some pretty extreme environments in the education world. Such as the time he soldiered on in 20-below temperatures as principal of a high school within hailing distance of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Or the time before that, when he stepped off a plane in China — not knowing a soul or a syllable in the native language — en route to a new role as executive director of an American school in Shanghai. In the pandemic year of ...

Justice faces some push back on schools

Teachers’ associations are not happy with governor’s decision Gov. Jim Justice’s plan to get students back in classrooms three weeks from now isn’t making the grade with the state’s two unions for teachers and other school employees. Justice said Wednesday he’ll reopen all elementary and middle schools for five-day-a-week attendance by Jan. 19, no matter the infection rates in their counties. The move also includes high schools, which will continue to operate in accordance with the County Alert Map maintained by the state Department of Health of Human Resources — ...

Morgantown High adds to honors wall

Tomasky, Simoyi and Portnoy join list of graduates Things don’t begin and end with Barney Fife at Morgantown High School.Or, Don Knotts (Class of 1942), the comedic actor who won five Emmys for his bumbling portrayal of the aforementioned character on the Andy Griffith television show in ...