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Mon Schools: Don't mask kindness during the switchover

Donna Talerico, who serves as Monongalia County’s deputy schools superintendent, began her career in education as an elementary school teacher. So did a lot of the other administrators in the district’s central office. With the call to make masks optional beginning next week, many ...

Booster shots to begin for Mon students 12 and older

COVID didn’t get to take off for Presidents' Day like the students in Monongalia County did Monday. When said students show up to answer roll this morning, however, numbers of them will also roll up their sleeves —– in the ongoing quest to quell the coronavirus for good. Booster ...

The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 5

Good: HB 4355 — to require the governing board of a higher education institution to publish a list of required textbooks, and whether they are open resource or free. The board must also disclose if students will be automatically charged for a textbook or digital access to courseware. The ...

Mon students to keep masks on for now

That mask your kid has been wearing to school — for forever, it seems — is going to continue to be part of the daily wardrobe. At least for now, Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said. Campbell said the local district is staying the course on facial coverings, ...

State passes 6,000 deaths

West Virginia passed another bleak milestone Monday, surpassing 6,000 COVID-19 deaths in the state. Justice read an additional 31 victims at the start of Monday’s briefing, bringing the toll to date to 6,023. “It rips my heart out in so many ways and I just hate it,” Justice ...