It’s hard to find an off-ramp when COVID is still behind the wheel. That was the direction the Monongalia County Board of Education took Tuesday night after a parent asked when the masks might come off for students in the district. Donna Talerico, the district’s deputy ...
MORGANTOWN — In 2012, the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park was far from a certainty. It wasn’t a plan or a concept. It was a wish list item. But even then – some five years before the first shovel of dirt was turned — Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom was selling the project ...
MORGANTOWN — Like a race car at the starting line, revving its engine. That’s how Donna Talerico describes the state of the COVID vaccine in Monongalia County Schools these days. The district’s deputy superintendent is talking about doses for younger students and boosters for ...
There was the little girl who broke into tears at school one day. She was convinced her grandmother, who was coughing and sniffling with a (medically diagnosed) cold was going to die of COVID, even though the matriarch had earlier tested negative for the contagion. And the little boy on ...
These days, Eddie Campbell Jr. makes his living as superintendent of Monongalia County Schools. He was a high school principal before that. During Tuesday night’s meeting of the Mon Board of Education, he sounded every bit like one. That was when he reminded students that the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Eddie Campbell Jr. notched a pandemic first Monday afternoon. That was when the Monongalia County school superintendent confessed he’s actually rooting for all zeros on a report card. “I can’t wait,” said Campbell, who began his academic career as a teacher and ...