KINGWOOD — The risk of a school shooting is ever present. The recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were murdered, only reiterates the need for enhanced school safety measures in his mind, incoming Preston County Schools Superintendent Brad Martin said at ...
West Virginia celebrates its 1863 statehood on Monday, and, right on cue, it’s time to say: All hail the Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe. That’s the award that honors Mountain State eighth-graders who have demonstrated a multitude of knowledge about the place they call home, ...
KINGWOOD — It was a time of reminiscing, appreciation and emotion at the most recent Preston County Board of Education meeting, as three titans of the district prepare to move on. Superintendent Stephen Wotring, board president Jack Keim and board member Jeanne Dreisbach were all honored ...
COVID outbreaks. Threats of gun violence. Bursts of gun violence. TikTok challenges celebrating mayhem and vandalism. Over the past year in America’s schools, it could be said that teachers and other professionals who make things go in the classroom and the building were ...
It didn’t take long for Rob Cunningham to cut to the heart of the matter Tuesday afternoon in Charleston. Forty-eight hours after a mass shooting last month at an elementary school in rural Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Cunningham was tasked with a tall order from ...
Ask Donna Talerico what her plans are for summer vacation, and the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district will just laugh. While she tells you that her “summer” vacation traditionally hits sometime in the fall — after students are back and settled in for the ...
