This coming Monday will be one of those “make a note of it” days for the Monongalia County Board of Education. When the board meets that evening — Nancy Walker won’t be there. Walker, whose 28 years on the board made her its longest-tenured member, announced earlier that when it ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice came to Morgantown on Monday to celebrate the achievements of two WVU astrophysicists and present them with Distinguished West Virginian awards. The honorees were Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer, wife and husband, and co-founders of WVU's Center for ...
FAIRMONT — An outlay of $2,000 will take you places when your robot is planning the road trip. That’s how much money Falcotronix, the robotics club of Fairmont State University, received this week from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. The club will use the grant to fund future trips to regional and national competitions in coming months, its president Arrington Bucklew said. “Falcotronix has had its fair share of competitions and events,” said Bucklew, a senior majoring in electronics engineering technology. This spring the club and its programmable ...
Thursday was West Virginia Day and Dustin Lambert was spending the morning of it on Interstate 77. He was motoring from Charleston, the Mountain State’s capital city, to Wheeling, which was assigned that designation in the days after West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, ...
REEDSVILLE — A youth center in Preston County is growing and has plans to become a micro school. Located in Valley Industrial Park, the Preston County Youth Center (PCYC) in Masontown, is a multi-use facility providing the youth a place to participant in sports and other ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice says there has to be some middle ground when it comes to keeping up with home-school students. “Twenty-seven thousand homeschool kids in West Virginia and very little oversight,” Justice said during his media briefing Tuesday at the state capitol. “If ...
