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Students put on a show for residents

The Brookhaven Elementary School Choir visited The Village at Heritage Point, 1 Heritage Point, Morgantown, Thursday to perform for residents of the complex. The school’s 22 students fin the 5th grade choir and 5th grade Appalachian group were received by staff and residents in the ...

Morgantown business Apis Creative wins $260K NIH grant

Submitted to The Dominion Post Apis Creative, a small, woman-owned creative services agency in Morgantown, was recently awarded a $259,610 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of ...

Meet Nevelyn Flemming: Mon Schools’ first-ever Student of the Month

Nevelyn Flemming isn’t one to brag, but she is a pretty big deal in Monongalia County’s school district these days. That’s because the third-grader at Suncrest Elementary is the only one of her kind right now. “At least we think so,” Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. ...

Preparing for the unthinkable — county agencies train active school-shooter scenarios

Law enforcement agencies and first responders from across the county were at University High School throughout the day Friday working on their strategies, tactics and communications in the event of an active-shooter situation. Students were not in school during the drill due to a professional learning and faculty senate day. Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer said they have been thinking about holding a county-wide training since last year, after several school shootings in other areas of the country. Palmer said his department contacted Adam Henkins, who is in charge of ...

West Virginia Academy is a semifinalist for the $1M Yass Prize, which annually awards education innovation across the country

Two years ago, a snarl of legal challenges was making it appear more than likely that the West Virginia Academy, then planned as the Mountain State’s first-ever charter school, wasn’t going to be able to open its doors to students after all. Today, the academy, which has a main building on Chestnut Ridge Road and is currently working on a branch campus in Masontown, Preston County, is in the running for a prestigious academic prize. The academy, which is now in its second year, is semifinalist for The Yass Prize. That’s a $1 million offering from the organization of the ...

MHS students debate the issues during mock city council meeting

MORGANTOWN — Henceforth it is required that all Morgantown residents under the age of 18 have access to free food.  Further, Facetime phone calls shall remain legal in public spaces within the city and a new parking garage will not be constructed for Morgantown High ...