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W. Clayton Burch, West Virginia’s newly named Superintendent of Schools, didn’t waste any time Wednesday laying the framework for a big assignment concerning the first day of classes two months from now. Members of the state Board of Education, meeting in Charleston, didn’t waste any time lifting the “interim” handle from his job title, either.The longtime administrator stepped in following the sudden resignation and retirement of Steve Paine in February.COVID-19 stepped in a month later. Ensuing surges of coronavirus cases prompted Gov. Jim Justice to shutter every ...
MORGANTOWN -- A video conversation by West Virginia University’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to reassure faculty, staff and students it was doing everything possible to be inclusive became a social media maelstrom Wednesday afternoon when the University Chief of Police ...
CHARLESTON — Sweating it out on the state’s hottest day of the year, voters on Tuesday were choosing presidential, gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House candidates in West Virginia’s Democratic and Republican primaries. They also were deciding a majority of the five-member state ...
The owner of the Pennsylvania Avenue lot upon which a homeless encampment is located has expressed an interest in the city taking over the property. This is according to information provided by Morgantown Communications Manager Andrew Stacy. The camp, known as Diamond Village, has been in place for more than a month and was initiated with the property owner’s blessing. According to a timeline provided by Stacy, the property owner reached out to the city on May 27. “He said he wanted to work with the City to address the health and safety concerns and have the individuals ...
Fund them appropriately and let them do their jobs.That was the theme of some recent comments from Monongalia County Commissioners Ed Hawkins and Tom Bloom regarding the state’s support of county health departments.If public health was properly supported, Hawkins said, traditional health department roles wouldn’t need to be delegated in times of crisis — say, a pandemic, for example.“The problem we perceive up here is that the state has a way of dealing with this that, in a way, is overstepping the bounds of what the health department is actually set up for,” Hawkins said. ...
