Preston High class learns about cultivation of flowers, how to create arrangements

November 9, 2020

Students can take test, become floral designers KINGWOOD — Preston High School is offering a new floriculture simulated work place class this year.  Floriculture is the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes. Agriculture teacher Samantha Funk said she and her 24  students are making and selling Thanksgiving and Christmas arrangements. Due to COVID-19 and the inability to take credit cards, the arrangements are  being sold only to school and board of education employees.  Funk said the class  has 45 orders to go out in ...

Partnership helps teachers offer aid to students affected by SUD

November 9, 2020

WVU Today The gap in training for teachers related to the opioid crisis’ effect on students is being filled by a West Virginia University partnership that will develop and distribute materials to help the state’s teachers support their students who have family members with substance use disorders. The Project TRAIN initiative — Teacher Resources for Addiction Impact Now — is supported, in part, by a collaboration with the Region 5 Comprehensive Center at Westat.  The funding will allow Jessica Troilo, associate dean for academic affairs, and Frankie Tack, clinical ...

WVU plans for the future as BOG reviews year that required ‘laser-like’ focus

November 8, 2020

WVU Today West Virginia University President Gordon Gee told Board of Governors members that during the COVID-19 crisis he is “proud that we have retained our laser-like focus on the pillars of our land-grant mission — education, health care and prosperity in West Virginia.” The ...

Mon BOE prepares to discuss W.Va. Academy’s application

November 8, 2020

If the application goes through, West Virginia Academy Ltd. will be the first charter school in the Mountain State, operating in one of the more successful public school districts. Plans are for the school to be based in the Morgantown area, while recruiting students across Monongalia County. It might also seek future graduates from neighboring Marion  and Preston Counties, which already allows students from the Bruceton Mills area to attend University High. Either way, the plan has to go  through Mon’s Board of Education, first.  Technically, Preston’s ...

COVID strikes MHS again

November 8, 2020

New positive result comes on heels of diagnosis last week COVID-19 continued its reach  down the hallways of Morgantown High School on Friday. Another MHS student tested positive for the coronavirus and this one boomerangs back to an earlier diagnosis from last week. The ...

School faces COVID challenge

November 5, 2020

Whole class sent home as teacher tested positive A fifth-grade class at Eastwood Elementary School is quarantining at home today after a teacher tested positive for COVID-19, the district announced. Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said the class was sent home Wednesday as a ...