Will this past weekend in north-central West Virginia be the one that turns out to be a super-spreader for COVID? That’s what Ed Abbott of the Monongalia County Health Department was wondering last week. After all, said Abbott, who is the department’s program manager for infection ...
OK, we say: Stay home. And you say: Mountaineers. Stay home. Mountaineers. Call the above a new version of the legendary hometown football cheer, amended, for the moment, in response to a huge season-opener Saturday. However, it only works if you happen to be a Mountaineer — ...
Monongalia County Schools is canceling classes Friday in anticipation of the traffic crush in Morgantown for Saturday’s WVU-Penn State match-up at Milan Puskar Stadium. “We’ve been talking with MECCA and other authorities,” Deputy Schools Superintendent Donna Talerico said ...
Put me in, Coach. For a while during the height of the pandemic, high school sports lost its collective legs altogether — and team sports in the younger grades didn’t even begin to bump the needle. Now, the seasons are back. But with student athletes specializing in one sport and ...
If you’re a teacher in Monongalia County Schools and you need supplies for your classroom, Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. wants you to go to the source. “Let your principal know,” he said Thursday. "It's that easy." Last week, it was more perplexing than easy for Emily ...
ICYMI: Monongalia County's school district is going smartphone-free this year. And the guidelines aren’t being put in place to take something away from students, Donna Talerico said Wednesday. Rather, the district’s deputy superintendent said, they’re designed to give something ...