In spring 2020, at the height (or depth) of the pandemic, Kerrigan Hawthorne and her friends at Preston High School found themselves in Prom Purgatory. Everything in the state was shuttered and shut down, with most people quarantining at home, so you could forget about the social event of ...
Christian Help traveled the county this week to help area teens getting ready for a spring tradition — high school proms. The agency took more than 150 dresses, suits, shoes and accessories to University High School Thursday, where young men and ladies could find free attire for their ...
Rented tuxedos and gowns just so. Corsages, the newly waxed car in the driveway for the cruise to the hall and the requisite cellphone snaps in front of the fireplace, for the memory and mom’s Facebook page. Last year, prom – the prime social event in high school – was canceled in ...
Whether the Monongalia County Board of Education meant it seriously or facetiously, the members may have been on to something when they floated the idea of letting prom-goers do the Electric Slide. Granted, the Electric Slide and its corresponding Grapevine dance moves are a little … ...
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Last year, as the pandemic was cutting loose in north-central West Virginia, Monongalia County’s school district canceled prom altogether. This year, though, prom is back in Mon. Mon’s three public high schools will hold prom three weeks from now, Deputy Superintendent Donna ...