Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly used a school bus analogy to deliver a facts-of-life message from the board to area lawmakers last week. Say there are 70 students in that bus, Kelly’s analogy went, when it rolls up to the front of a school. Thirty students ...
George Washington, by all accounts, was considered a brilliant tactician on the battlefield. Even if he was out-thought, and out-fought, by the British that day near Philadelphia. The Revolutionary War was raging. Upstart colonists on the other side of the Atlantic and well away from ...
Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly remembers his days as a student at University High School, when the building was located atop Price Street, overlooking WVU’s downtown campus. “I’d take my classes in the morning at University High, then I’d walk down the hill ...
When is a sticker a statement? When does “protection” turn into “oppression"? And just how much power can a Gay Pride flag wield, now that we’re talking about it? That’s what it boiled down to after all the marathon talk during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia ...
Live from Sabraton … it’s the Monongalia County Board of Education. As of Friday. When the BOE convenes that day for a noon meeting to discuss a North Elementary School renovation project, it will be at its new digs on 1751 Earl L. Core Road, in a building that once housed the ...
The Dominion Post Editorial Board recently had the pleasure of interviewing candidates for Monongalia County and Preston County boards of education. We would like to thank all the candidates who took the time to meet with us and answer our questions. (Several candidates were unable to attend ...