A client of Planet Fitness on Fort Pierpont Drive has tested positive for COVID-19, and Monongalia County Health Department is urging members who were there during a window of time to quarantine and watch for symptoms. Anyone who was at Planet Fitness between 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 24 should ...
What’s the number?That was the question posed by the Monongalia County Commission during a recent work session with leadership from the Visit Mountaineer Country Convention and Visitors Bureau.Like most entities, and particularly those tied to travel and tourism, the CVB has been financially devastated by COVID-19 and currently projects hitting 50% of its anticipated $1.5 million 2020 budget as a best case scenario.The CVB has laid off all of its employees save Executive Director Susan Riddle, who took a20% pay cut as the lodging (hotel/motel) taxes that serve as the primary revenue ...
It will be a whole new world for West Virginia University students when they return to classes Aug. 19 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But if safety protocols are followed, then there is no reason that they can’t have an active life on campus, President Gordon Gee said.“We’re going to make wearing a mask cool,” Gee told The Dominion Post during a recent interview. “You can personalize it.”WVU, Gee said, is one of the few universities in the country that will require students to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to classrooms. He said he has also talked with ...
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Clay-Battelle High School students, faculty and family took shelter as the rain poured onto the empty chairs, which delayed their 81st graduation ceremony, initially to start at 6:30 p.m. It was just shortly after 7:15 p.m., though, that the rain stopped, the sun came out and a faint double ...
Nobody smiles, and shows urgency, at the same time like a high school principal. Paul Mihalko was proving it Thursday evening, as he quickly strode to the microphone. Morgantown High School’s 137th Commencement, a social-distanced affair for a senior year that wasn’t, had just ...
