Two AmeriCorps volunteers join North Elementary to manage its agriculture program

November 21, 2022

If you can remember mimeographed handouts and overhead projectors in school, you also know the old “My dog ate my homework” dodge — which has been rendered all but obsolete by the digital domain. Well, with the exception of North Elementary School, maybe. There, the homework can be edible, with the two-legged set doing the consuming. Since 2011, the school on Chestnut Ridge Road has incorporated agriculture into its day-to-day. That was the year WVU professor and master gardener Jim Rye planted a seed for a grant that led to a plot for a humble vegetable garden. The ...

Mon schools: ‘This will be a good time to get your COVID booster, if you haven’t already’

November 19, 2022

Please pass the COVID. That’s precisely what Donna Talerico hopes won’t happen during Thanksgiving break for Monongalia County’s public school students. “This will be a good time to get your COVID booster if you haven’t already,” said Talerico, the district’s deputy ...

Dyslexia in the public schools: A look at child screening and teacher training

November 12, 2022

MORGANTOWN – The Dominion Post began exploring the issues associated with the learning disability known as dyslexia in October, which was Dyslexia Awareness Month. One of the issues we uncovered was that parents of children with dyslexia believe the public schools aren't helping their ...

Laurel College of Technology celebrates first associate degree nursing class during pinning ceremony

November 12, 2022

MORGANTOWN – Laurel College of Technology celebrated its first graduating class and pinning ceremony for its Associate Degree in Nursing program Thursday night. On a night of firsts, it was also the first class to graduate from Laurel College's new home on Wedgewood Drive. Campus ...

A snack, to say ‘Thank you’: Suncrest Elementary honors service members for Veterans Day

November 10, 2022

At Suncrest Elementary School, an external sound system regularly carries morning announcements out to the parking lot. Visitors rolling in Thursday morning quickly learned what the theme of this day was going to be, courtesy of that audio in the autumn air. “Is someone in your family ...

The politics and particulars of Amendment 4

November 9, 2022

Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. used the “p” word on Wednesday as he discussed the fortunes of Amendment 4, which would have granted sweeping oversight of West Virginia’s public schools to the state legislature. But that word wasn’t “politics.” For him, ...