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Mon’s students have real-world worries

You’re late again on the mortgage. Too many bills. Not enough paycheck. Extras? Forget extras. You’re just trying to get by. What happens if you lose the house? If the think the above litany of stresses is coming from say, an adult hunkered down at the kitchen table at the end of the month, think again. Those are some of the stressors reported by Monongalia County elementary school students seated at their classroom desks this fall. Michael Ryan, who directs diversity and inclusion services for the local public school district, did a bit of a sonar sweep of the ...

PRT open again after Saturday closure

West Virginia University officials confirmed the PRT was closed Saturday, Nov. 11 because of a power rail failure at the Walnut Street station. Rumors of a fire on the tracks circulated after a video was posted to social media, but officials say it was an electric arc caused by the power ...

Safe schools — across W.Va. and in Monongalia County

Martinsburg, the fast-growing town in West Virginia’s bustling Eastern Panhandle, is more urban these days than most communities across the Mountain State. Suburban, anyway — given its official Washington, D.C., metro-area designation. While it also has its share of crime, that’s ...

Mon Schools releases its report on electric bus plan

More than 32,000 miles in 18 counties, with nary a hitch. The above means the BEAST didn’t do bad at all on West Virginia’s challenging two-lanes last November. That’s BEAST, as in, “battery electric alternative school transportation,” the energy-efficient school buses ...