FAIRMONT – Marion County Board of Education President George Boyles said last week it was “time to move on,” after the 3-2 vote and lengthy discussion earlier to oust Donna Heston, the district’s current superintendent of schools. Moving on for the BOE now means hitting the fast ...
FAIRMONT – It wasn’t a toast, but Donna Heston did lift a glass – of sorts – during Monday’s meeting of the Marion County Board of Education. Make that ballistics glass. Heston, Marion’s superintendent of schools, said the first of the fortified material is going out in ...
FAIRMONT – That’s the thing about mold. It comes back. Marion County Schools Superintendent Donna Heston delivered that biology lesson, most basic, to Board of Education members earlier this week. That is, where there’s high humidity, there just might be mold. And where ...
FAIRMONT — Maintenance workers for Marion County Schools pumped more than 300 gallons of water from Monongah Elementary after Sunday’s sudden deluge of rain and flash floods. “Monongah was the school that probably got hit the hardest,” Superintendent Donna Heston ...
A nice green salad to go with a blue ribbon? If you have an association with Pleasant Valley Elementary School, you can say yes to both. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona last week named the Marion County school a National Blue Ribbon School for 2024. The school near ...
FAIRMONT — Salad bar of the future? That’s the hope of Marion County educator Krista Blankenship, who was recently named a West Virginia state teacher of the year nominee for 2025. Blankenship, who teaches third grade at Pleasant Valley Elementary School, secured the funding last ...