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Sunshine Week: The cost of COVID in Mon schools

This is one in a series of articles to mark Sunshine Week, which is a national initiative to educate the public about the importance of open government. The pandemic doesn’t just carry intense human costs. It’s also keeping a running tab in the Monongalia County school ...

Handling classes, work during the outbreak of March Madness

After an unplanned year off in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament – colloquially known and branded as March Madness – is back today, much to the excitement of many West Virginia University students. Gina Martino Dahlia, WVU Journalism ...

A Year of Living in a Pandemic

Two years before, and you may have thought a movie crew was filming a scene for a sci-fi contagion thriller. Worried people behind the wheel, steering and snaking their cars into the parking lot of medical facility. Workers, outfitted in full protective gear, walking up to administer a ...

Governor: Keep your COVID-19 guard up

Gov. Jim Justice and West Virginia health officials warned the public Wednesday of a potential increase in COVID-19 cases, because reports of the virus are growing in other states and in Europe. “In Europe (Germany and Italy) they’re experiencing their third surge and cases are going ...

Preston BOE adjusts budget for pandemic needs

This is one in a series of articles to mark Sunshine Week, which is a national initiative to educate the public about the importance of open government. KINGWOOD -- On Feb. 19, the Preston County Board of Education voted unanimously to return students to a four-day-a-week instructional ...