So, your kid comes home with a report saying they are below the benchmark in reading. What do you do now? At the beginning of kindergarten our child took a […]
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Bartlett Housing Solutions increases capacity for the winter months
Bartlett Housing Solutions, the city’s leading organization for homeless services, announced Thursday that it will increase bed capacity by 12 beds to provide additional shelter resources for those who are […]
Pants taken in Fairmont robbery
BY MIKE NOLTING A male victim, who had been robbed of his boots and pants, ran down Washington Street in Fairmont as the alleged robber chased him with a knife. […]
Every quilt has a story
Quilts made in or residing in West Virginia and made before 1975 can be documented for future generations during the upcoming Mountaineer Week. Documentation will be held Nov. 4-5 in […]
West Virginia Academy is a semifinalist for the $1M Yass Prize, which annually awards education innovation across the country
Two years ago, a snarl of legal challenges was making it appear more than likely that the West Virginia Academy, then planned as the Mountain State’s first-ever charter school, wasn’t […]
Friends of the Cheat to host free State of the Watershed event in Morgantown
Friends of the Cheat (FOC) will host its State of the Watershed event from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 26 at the new 123 Pleasant Street Co-op Venue, 131 Pleasant St., Morgantown. […]
Workforce participation remains low in W.Va.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia continues to have one of the lowest workforce participation rates in the nation but there’s another rate WorkForce West Virginia is taking a closer look at. […]
Congress must act before we careen off ‘child care cliff’
On Sept. 30, funding for the Child Care Stabilization Program ran out and experts warn that when the already-distributed dollars dry up, the nation will go careening off a “child […]
Judge’s gag order on Trump may be satisfying but it’s not constitutional
by Erwin Chemerinsky Although I often wish that Donald Trump would shut up, he has a constitutional right not to. A federal judge went too far in restricting his free […]
Substance abuse fuels foster care surge
West Virginia’s drug overdose mortality rate is the highest in the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 1,500 West Virginians died from a drug overdose […]
