A University High School teacher has been fired by the district. The decision to terminate Travis Wells, who taught science at the school on Bakers Ridge Road, came after a personnel hearing that lasted nearly four hours during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of ...
There have been more than a few times over these past several months that Brian Kiehl didn't know where his next meal was coming from. From the pandemic to supply-chain issues wrought by the war in Ukraine, the above was a literal concern for the nutrition director of Monongalia County ...
Mountaineers, by literal definition, have to keep climbing. Metaphorically, however, planting the flag in triumph at the peak can sometimes be akin to setting off an avalanche below. Translation: Don’t get too comfortable — because there’s always going to be something. Two ...
The way to a student’s heart is through his backpack. The way to his heart is knowing someone in the school system cares, really cares, about him and his family. That’s the philosophy of Donna Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district — and ...
It wasn’t that long ago when students in Monongalia County’s school district were simply trying to get by in the midst of the pandemic. With COVID-19 turning traditional attendance into a patchwork quilt, some didn’t get by at all. Unpredictability was the new rule after morning ...
Monongalia County students attending summer school at Morgantown High are already understanding how it’s going to be in August when the fall term begins. That’s because they’re now passing through a high-tech weapons detector on their way to class. Mon’s Board of Education ...