SABRATON – They got into a war of words Wednesday in Monongalia County Schools – but it wasn’t a bad thing. In fact, academically speaking, it was a good thing. Lexicon-warriors from across the district, along with their counterparts from St. Francis de Sales and Covenant ...
Brian Kiehl says he expects things will be hunky-dory for the 2026 Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee, which takes off Jan. 21 at the district’s central offices in Sabraton. “Yes, it’s time once again,” said Kiehl, a district administrator who has been organizing the county ...
If you want to know about diversity in Monongalia County Schools, you may want to look back to a sunny March afternoon more than 10 years ago. That’s when young Viraat Das became a breakout star of the county spelling bee. Viraat leveled whole lexicons of words that were ...
Brian Kiehl says he expects things will be hunky-dory during the 2024 Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee, which will be Jan. 10 at the district’s central office in Sabraton. Kiehl is an administrator in the district who began organizing the spelling bee right before the ...
Joe Paull, the late educator and community activist, used to patiently spell it out. “It’s not easy,” Paull once told The Dominion Post. “You’re in the arena, in front of a bunch of strangers, doing something that’s not easy to do.” Paull was talking about the spelling ...
Champion. C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N. Khloe Smith, a sixth grader from South Middle School, has taken the top spot in the Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee. The bee featured 16 students who were the winning spellers from each of the county’s elementary and middle schools. ...