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Mylan Park Elementary students steer into STEM in Charleston

Code me home, country roads. Students from Mylan Park Elementary were among a select group in Charleston on Monday. They joined their counterparts from seven other schools across the state for “Country Roads Codes Day at the Capitol,” a computer and robotics event designed to ...

Mon BOE meets with lawmakers in advance of Legislative session

Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly used a school bus analogy to deliver a facts-of-life message from the board to area lawmakers last week. Say there are 70 students in that bus, Kelly’s analogy went, when it rolls up to the front of a school. Thirty students ...

Judge rules against Preston BOE in West Preston School water hookup dispute

MORGANTOWN – An administrative law judge engaged by the state Public Service Commission has ruled that West Preston School must disconnect its water service from Preston County Public Service District 1 for the old section of the school and resume service from Arthurdale Water Association ...

First word on ’24: Mon Schools spelling bee is next month

Brian Kiehl says he expects things will be hunky-dory during the 2024 Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee, which will be Jan. 10 at the district’s central office in Sabraton. Kiehl is an administrator in the district who began organizing the spelling bee right before the ...

Global literacy advocate Rania Zuri makes the Forbes ’30 under 30′ list

Rania Zuri, the recent Morgantown High graduate who has garnered international accolades in her work for the advancement of literacy across the U.S. and the globe, just made the Forbes “30 under 30” list. The publication annually recognizes 600 young entrepreneurs, innovators and influencers from the fields of healthcare, the arts, education, social media and more. For Zuri, 18, it all started with intellectual diversion two years ago while she was still a student at MHS. That’s when she started The LiTEArary Society, a club for kindred biblio-spirits who would gather to ...