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Getting back to 'normal' in Mon's schools

Monongalia County’s school district is continuing to inch to its way to what passes for normalcy in the (maybe) post-pandemic world. That was the message Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. delivered during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. The district’s long-awaited ...

Students adjusting to life without masks

Call it, preventive expression, Eddie Campbell Jr. said Thursday. The Monongalia schools superintendent was talking about what the future deployment of facial coverings might be in hallways and classrooms, now that the district has gone with a mask-optional policy. Wednesday marked the ...

Mon students face school with a mask-optional policy today

So, how’d it go in your house this morning? Did your kid burst out the door, jumping at the chance for a truly new school day? Maybe it was just another morning – even though a lot of those expressions in the main hallway will say otherwise. For the first time since March 2020, ...

Mon Schools: Don't mask kindness during the switchover

Donna Talerico, who serves as Monongalia County’s deputy schools superintendent, began her career in education as an elementary school teacher. So did a lot of the other administrators in the district’s central office. With the call to make masks optional beginning next week, many ...

Booster shots to begin for Mon students 12 and older

COVID didn’t get to take off for Presidents' Day like the students in Monongalia County did Monday. When said students show up to answer roll this morning, however, numbers of them will also roll up their sleeves —– in the ongoing quest to quell the coronavirus for good. Booster ...