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School district will follow doctor's orders

Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said the district will go into September just like a good, compliant patient. That is, it will follow doctor’s orders – the doctor in this instance being Dr. Lee B. Smith, Mon’s county health officer. “We’ll continue to take ...

Masks, mandates & individual choices

Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something in common: Cries of “individual choice.” And they’re right: They do have a choice. However, the people ...

Sept. 5 letters to the editor

Can nothing really change their  minds? We are told by those health care workers who feel they should be able to reject being vaccinated for COVID and yet still work in the health care industry that there is nothing anyone can say that will convince them to accept being ...

Rare faculty vote reveals overwhelming support for vaccine mandate

MORGANTOWN — The majority of WVU faculty have voted in favor of a non-binding resolution to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees and students on campus by Jan. 1. “If we continue with this dance of not having vaccines and having to go back into quarantines and shutdowns, the ...

Mask protest in Preston Co.

KINGWOOD — Not all Preston County parents agree with the current school mask mandate. Roughly 20 parents, some with their children, protested the mandate Friday. They stood on the sidewalk across from the courthouse annex holding signs and waving at vehicles as drivers honked in ...

Pandemic or no, the High Holidays are here

It’s Friday afternoon, and Rabbi Joe Hample is frazzled, and laughing, at the same time. He’s three days out from Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year, and he still hasn’t tested the microphones for the spiritual takes of social media to follow this month. There’s the ...