Monongalia County students will stay on remote learning through Feb. 12. That was the call of the county BOE on Tuesday night, which voted unanimously for that state, saying COVID-19 is simply too unpredictable to merit a safe return to class. “We all want our kids back in school,” ...
Be it an individual, a family, a business, an agency, a city, county, state or nation, 2020 can essentially be summed up in eight characters, COVID-19. And while that’s certainly true for Monongalia County, there was some other stuff that happened, too. But we might as ...
The same three points, the same as last time. When Gov. Jim Justice ordered schools shuttered across West Virginia last March due to the then looming pandemic, the state Department of Education mobilized for some homework in a hurry. A remote learning plan and mobile nutrition program ...
Too much homework. Or, not enough. Using the latest technology to talk to teachers via Chromebooks — while feeling more emotionally disconnected than ever. So goes the quandary of COVID-19 for Monongalia County students in the pandemic year of 2020. Mon’s Board of Education ...
Deal will result in $60.7 million for use within area With a capacity, albeit socially distanced, crowd in attendance, the Monongalia County Commission finalized a 30-year agreement with daughter companies of Longview Power on Wednesday, clearing the way for the company’s billion-dollar ...
The coronavirus cast its lengthiest shadow yet across Monongalia’s school district Wednesday.Four positive diagnoses were made at Cheat Lake Elementary, Ridgedale Elementary and Suncrest Middle — resulting in additional quarantines of 91 students and four employees from the three ...