Martinsburg, the fast-growing town in West Virginia’s bustling Eastern Panhandle, is more urban these days than most communities across the Mountain State. Suburban, anyway — given its official Washington, D.C., metro-area designation. While it also has its share of crime, that’s ...
Nevelyn Flemming isn’t one to brag, but she is a pretty big deal in Monongalia County’s school district these days. That’s because the third-grader at Suncrest Elementary is the only one of her kind right now. “At least we think so,” Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. ...
With the introduction of its Leave No Trace initiative, Visit Mountaineer Country Convention & Visitors' Bureau will join a nationwide effort to educate children on respecting, appreciating and conserving the natural world. Last year, Visit Mountaineer Country CVB President and CEO ...
Work has begun in earnest prepping the site that could be home to the Renaissance Academy, a planned $72 million facility dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math pursuits for Monongalia County students. That includes everything from the just-completed first stage of an ...
If you were to shimmy through Pantry Plus More’s Westover warehouse in the weeks before its annual Back to School Bash, you’d likely think the whole chaotic undertaking was headed for disaster. Pallets and piles, boxes and bags — wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor with no apparent ...
Nearly 80% of parents responding to an annual back-to-school survey by a nonprofit, national advocacy group say they are worried about the possibility — and the inevitability, even — of gun violence in their child’s school this coming year. That’s one of the more-telling results of ...