Monongalia County students are seeing red this morning — and not just because a few might be annoyed about returning to school after a long holiday break. That’s because red […]
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Mon Schools report 34 COVID cases among its students last week
MORGANTOWN — A total of 34 students tested positive across Monongalia County’s school district last week, officials reported. That went with the six positive diagnoses for the contagion presented by […]
Vaccines continue next week for Mon students
MORGANTOWN — Omicron. For Donna Talerico, Monongalia County’s deputy superintendent of schools, that’s not just the name of the newest variant to spider-web from COVID-19. It’s also a kind of […]
Mon Schools: Masks will stay on (for now) and COVID vaxx for elementary kids begin next week
It’s hard to find an off-ramp when COVID is still behind the wheel. That was the direction the Monongalia County Board of Education took Tuesday night after a parent asked […]
Mon Schools: Doses could be given to students aged 5-11 as early as next month
MORGANTOWN — Like a race car at the starting line, revving its engine. That’s how Donna Talerico describes the state of the COVID vaccine in Monongalia County Schools these days. […]
COVID a consistent fact in Mon schools
MORGANTOWN — It was business as usual in Monongalia County schools last week. Students shuffled in for class and teachers worked from their lesson plans. Football teams and marching bands […]
‘That’s why we’re trying to protect everybody’
These are the COVID numbers Donna Talerico doesn’t mind passing along. More than 1,250 employees of Monongalia County schools have been fully vaccinated to date in clinics hosted by the […]
Mon schools to remain open — for now
MORGANTOWN — Another 55 students tested positive for COVID last week in Monongalia County schools. The number of classmates now in quarantine as a precaution is up to 356. Add […]
MHS senior on the first day of school: ‘It depends on your perspective’
MORGANTOWN — Yes, that really is a school bus in front of you at the traffic light. Aug. 24 is the first day of school across Monongalia County, and Liam […]
‘An important job before the pandemic’
Students from the Mylan Park and Clay-Battelle school attendance areas reported to a soggy roll call Monday morning, in advance of next week’s start of classes in Monongalia County. “I […]
