You’re late again on the mortgage. Once again, you’ve got too many bills — and not enough paycheck. You don’t want to say it out loud, but losing the house is looking like a real possibility. If you think that litany of stressors is coming from an adult hunkered down at the ...
Early voting ended Saturday in Monongalia County with a total of 6,244 ballots cast. That was the word not long after polls closed at 5 p.m. from Carye Blaney, Mon's county clerk. Election Day is Tuesday for West Virginia's primary. Meanwhile, Eddie Campbell Jr., Mon's superintendent ...
Four high school seniors from Monongalia and Preston’s school districts are now in elite company. They were named National Merit Scholars, the scholarship’s Illinois-based corporation announced Wednesday. Nationally, more than 15,000 seniors from across the U.S. were recognized as ...
If you can read, you can learn. Teachers, in general, love saying that. English teachers, however, love attaching another sentence to the adage. Reading, they’ll say, is even better when you can actually write. Then, they’ll punctuate, you really learn. That’s ...
It’s the mealtime mantra that Brian Kiehl, who directs child nutrition services for Monongalia County Schools, voices every year at this time. “Hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation,” he’ll say. Even in relatively prosperous Mon, there’s still a sizeable serving of children ...
It’s the kind of educational ranking West Virginia officials actually don’t mind reading about or talking about. That’s because the Mountain State has just placed near the top in the nation, in being able to provide pre-kindergarten education to its youngest students. West ...