Disney exclusive: UHS one of 50 schools in the nation earning the rights to stage ‘Frozen’ musical

December 5, 2022

Things are currently on the frozen side at University High School, and Monday morning’s 20-degree temperatures didn’t have a thing to do with it. Thank Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff, Hans, Sven and the misunderstood Marshmallow, for the new state of being. UHS is one of 51 schools — one for each state in the U.S., plus another American high school in Germany for U.S. military families posted abroad — to stage the live musical version of “Frozen,” from the animated Disney movie of the same name. “Yeah, this a big deal,” said Richard Kyer, who teaches English and ...

‘We just had to have something beautiful come out of something so horrible’

December 3, 2022

On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb smuggled into the back of Pan Am Flight 103 turned the plane into a fireball, some 30,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland. A total of 270 people died that day. One of the passengers on Flight 103 was Valerie Canady, an accountant who knew her way around ...

On the edge of your seat: MHS band ‘uninstalls’ a fundraiser at Milan Puskar stadium

December 2, 2022

It was a couple of Julys ago at a COVID-abbreviated band camp near Morgantown, and this band was most assuredly working it, on an almost-sweltering day. Meet the renowned Red and Blue Marching Band of Morgantown High School. Director Lorne Hyskell was leading the teen players through ...

FBI Academy looking for 2023 class nominations

December 2, 2022

The FBI CJIS Division Citizens Academy is seeking nominations for its 2023 class. Over an eight-week period, the FBI Citizens Academy provides an inside look at the FBI to pillars in the community. This includes business, religious, civic and community leaders. The program provides an avenue to strengthen relationships and improve understanding between the FBI and the community. Classes are taught by FBI executives, senior special agents and program managers. Topics may include (but are not limited to) overviews of programs at the FBI’s CJIS Division such as the National ...

Divisive politics hurting public schools, California educators say

December 1, 2022

Poetry, Robert Frost said, makes you remember — what you didn’t know you knew. Which, in many ways mirrors the findings of a study on life in America’s public schools released this week by two education professors from America’s Melting Pot of California. “Educating for a ...

Teachers provide input at inaugural ‘Solutions for Success’ focus group

December 1, 2022

BY MIKE NOLTING The first public education focus group was held Tuesday night in Morgantown. A second meeting was held Wednesday in Wheeling. “Solutions for Success” sessions are facilitated by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA). The two unions came up with the idea after another round of national teaching showed West Virginia at or near the bottom of the list. Three questions posed to the audience, primarily made up of teachers, were designed to determine what local schools do well, where they can improve and ...