MORGANTOWN — A Wednesday COVID-19 briefing abuzz with numbers yielded a new slogan from Gov. Jim Justice: “Beat 588 bad.” That’s a number floated by a reporter of those West […]
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Pictures of emotion: UHS art students craft watercolor cards to nursing facility residents
Remember your first art show from kindergarten? It was during the afternoon your teacher turned you and your classmates loose with watercolors. You didn’t know what a “muse” was then, […]
Justice to sign executive order lifting many of his 91 pandemic orders; mask mandate to remain in place
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that he’s issuing a new executive order undoing many of the previous 91 he issued since March 2020 to respond to the COVID-19 […]
As vaccine pace slackens, Justice and team urge West Virginians not to quit before the race is won
MORGANTOWN — COVID variants and the slackening pace of vaccinations in the state occupied most of Friday’s COVID-19 briefing from the Capitol. Gov. Jim Justice summed up the conversation before […]
Postcast 67 – April 16, 2021
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COVID-19 quarantines 68 students at South Middle, Mason Dixon
MORGANTOWN — Two positive COVID-19 cases at South Middle School are being classified as an outbreak, the district said Thursday, as the virus was apparently spread from student to student […]
Justice and team: Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause won’t hinder state program; no veto planned for transgender sports bill
MORGANTOWN — A good portion of Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing from the Capitol was taken up with the national pause placed on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after a blood-clotting issue […]
Handling ‘freshmen 15’ in the time of COVID-19
This one goes out to all the overworked, overwhelmed, underrepresented and sleep-deprived students fresh out of high school: The freshman class. The freshman class might have had some of the […]
Mon BOE discusses student vaccines, summer enrichment program
Sara Anderson gave a dose of pandemic pragmatism during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education. “It’s not enough,” she said. The board member was talking about […]
Governor pauses use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine after CDC news; WVU Medicine, Mon Health comment
MORGANTOWN – Following Tuesday’s joint CDC/FDA announcement about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Jim Justice put an immediate statewide pause on all use of the vaccine. Clinics that […]
