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 the district. Not just fiscal health, they’ll say. Social and emotional health, too. School counselors and social ...
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 p.m., and we encourage Mon County residents to take a few minutes of their day and go vote "yes" on the levy. Nancy ...
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. The Sunday, Aug. 29, front-page photo of healthcare workers protesting mandating COVID-19 ...
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 to offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students thanks to a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA ...
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 grandparents each came with eight children. Those who stayed behind in their ...
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 community respond to the health, economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This money will ...