MORGANTOWN -- For the fourth time in as many years, the Monongalia County Commission intends to lower the county’s levy rate. That was one of the major talking points Friday as the commission met in special session to approve a $39,292,159 spending plan for the 2022 fiscal year, ...
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MORGANTOWN -- There are variant strains of COVID-19 in Monongalia County. That’s the bad news, we know. The good news? The epidemiologists at the Monongalia County Health Department are all over it. And according to county health officer Dr. Lee Smith, that’s no small ...
MORGANTOWN -- In an academic landscape ever-shifting from COVID-19, one fact of life for the Monongalia County school district stayed constant during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. By a 5-0 vote, the BOE approved levy rates for Fiscal Year 2021, in an action that amounted to ...
State officials said West Virginia is seeing an increase in COVID-19 transmission rates in people between the ages of 16 and 29, as well as more cases of the UK variant of the virus. To that end, they are increasing efforts to get people in this age group vaccinated. “The UK variant ...
A recent COVID-19 incident at Mountaineer Middle School was indeed the first case of a student-to-student transmission of the virus in Monongalia County school building. Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. made that official during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. That case ...