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 ...
Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia hosted an event in honor of its 10-year anniversary Thursday at the foundation’s office at 111 High St. Founded in 2011, YCF is the larger, more effective outcome of a merger between two nonprofit foundations, the Community ...
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 ...
Hindsight is 20/20 – quite literally. As I write this piece on March 23, it was about a year ago I sat in my old apartment’s home office trying to fathom what was happening. A week and a half before that on March 12, I sat on my balcony on the phone with UHS coaches Joe Schmidle ...