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COVID keeps answering roll in Mon school district

Another 17 students from University High School are in quarantine today, after a classmate tested positive for the coronavirus, district announced. UHS, however, wasn’t the only building to make roll, Mon Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said Wednesday. Skyview Elementary, ...

A fourth Mason Dixon student tests positive

A fourth student at Mason Dixon Elementary School has tested positive for the coronavirus, after attending the same birthday party as three classmates who also came home with COVID. “It’s a good thing we did what we did,” Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. ...

Cheat Lake Elementary student tests positive

While some Monongalia County teachers are readying for their second doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, the coronavirus is still at work in the district. The most recent diagnosis is a student at Cheat Lake Elementary School, Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said Tuesday. No ...

3 new COVID cases in schools

Members of Monongalia County’s Board of Education were reminded of something they already knew Tuesday night: That pandemic math doesn’t grade on curve. Particularly when to comes to the quarantining, which usually ensues any time a student, teacher or other staffer presents with a ...

COVID-19 rate highest in state

KINGWOOD — Commissioners heard a bleak update from Preston Health Department Administrator V.J. Davis Tuesday.  Davis told the commission Preston County now has the highest incident and positive COVID rates in the state. “Right now, we are solid red,” he said. Davis said ...