MORGANTOWN — Many boosters of the excess levy for Monongalia County schools are being quite literal when they talk about how the measure is good for the overall health of […]
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Say “yes” to supporting our schools
On Saturday, there is a special election to decide to renew the Monongalia County Schools excess levy for another five years. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 […]
Sept. 19 letters to the editor
Protestors shouldn’t get front-page photos It has happened again! I opened the paper Saturday, Sept. 4, to find a photo of mothers in Preston County protesting the mandating of mask-wearing. […]
It’s only right for all kids to get free meals
As horrible and horrifying as this pandemic has been, there have been a few silver linings. One of them is that Monongalia County Schools, for the first time, is able […]
Aug. 15 letters to the editor
Familiar anti-immigrant talk reappearing My great-grandparents fled the oppression of Jewish people in Czarist Russia, arriving in the United States, some not entirely legally, between 1886 and 1903. My father’s […]
Aug. 8 letters to the editor
Community needs to give input on ARPA Morgantown and Monongalia County will be the recipients of millions of federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act designated to help our […]
Mon school district basing its American Rescue fund dollars on enrollment
To date, 650 children are registered for pre-kindergarten in Monongalia County’s school district for this coming year. Another 850 have been signed up for kindergarten by their parents. Which just […]
Mon BOE ready to slide into July’s ‘Summer Avalanche’ enrichment program
Those rumbles you heard during Tuesday’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education were a good thing. BOE members and school administrators discussed particulars of the sprawling “Summer Avalanche” […]
Supreme Court sides with Mon BOE on charter decision
MORGANTOWN — Last November’s call by the Monongalia County Board of Education to reject the application of what would have been the first charter school in West Virginia was upheld […]
Graduation dates, times set for Mon’s three public high schools
Everybody knew it was coming, and when it did, the only thing to do was laugh — or go all deadpan, as Emma Williams did. “This is extremely fitting for […]
