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Boys Nation representative from Morgantown High: ‘Put yourself out there’

“Hello, Mr. President. How are you?” “I’m fine, Mr. President. And you?” Most people know of a famous photograph snapped in the summer of 1963 of a 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. The once-and-future Leader of the Free World was tapped for that year’s American Legion Boys Nation, an eight-day immersion in the nation’s capital of just how government works — from writing legislation to getting one’s self elected to high office. Clinton, according to the lore that followed him to the Oval Office, was so impressed ...

Truancy in Mon schools: Officials want to engage rather than punish

It wasn’t that long ago when students in Monongalia County’s school district were simply trying to get by in the midst of the pandemic. With COVID-19 turning traditional attendance into a patchwork quilt, some didn’t get by at all. Unpredictability was the new rule after morning ...

Weapon detectors reflect new reality in Mon schools

Monongalia County students attending summer school at Morgantown High are already understanding how it’s going to be in August when the fall term begins. That’s because they’re now passing through a high-tech weapons detector on their way to class. Mon’s Board of Education ...

School and health officials here keeping an eye on COVID, monkeypox

For Donna Talerico and Dr. Lee B. Smith, the summer of late has been an avalanche of good news — and relatively good news. Talerico serves as Monongalia County’s deputy superintendent of schools. Smith is the county’s health officer. Both are referring to COVID and monkeypox in ...

The state’s first-ever charter schools are readying for fall

During her years at Parkersburg High in Wood County’s school district, Cheryl Stahle was lauded for her work as a classroom teacher and language arts specialist. Come fall, she’ll again be at the head of the class — in cyberspace. Stahle this month was hired as principal of the ...

‘Summer Avalanche’ rumbles across Mon’s schools starting today

Hear that? The rumble? That’s the sound of synapses firing across Monongalia County’s school district this morning. And that’s because it’s Summer Avalanche time. Which, happens to be the name of the district’s landmark learning enrichment effort that is going on all this ...