KINGWOOD -- At Monday night’s two-hour Preston County Board of Education meeting some board members said they wouldn’t vote for a vaccine mandate, the board and concerned parents agreed to form a committee to discuss how to move forward with school as COVID continues and the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County students couldn’t sidestep the coronavirus in the main hallway for the return to classes last week. Twenty-four students across the district tested positive for the contagion in the first days after the opening of school, the district said Monday. An ...
KINGWOOD -- At an emotional and disorderly emergency meeting of the Preston County Board of Education Monday morning, board members voted 3-2 in favor of requiring masks until Sept. 27, with a provision that each school have a place for students to unmask. Board members Jeff Zigray and Pam ...
With COVID uncertainty still shading the proceedings, Monongalia County teachers are reporting to their classrooms today, in preparation of next week’s first day of school. Sam Brunett said he still isn’t sure what kind of picture COVID will paint across the district is coming ...
Until a mask mandate is announced by state and/or federal officials, Superintendent of Schools Steve Wotring said students and teachers will not have to wear masks — unless they want to. He said he met with V.J. Davis, director of the Preston County Health Department, and Dr. Fred ...
The morning bell rang at Republican High (”Home of the Fightin’ Pachyderms”) as students shuffled in. Gretchen Niedermeyer dry swallowed a couple of pre-emptive aspirins and reminded herself as she did every morning that she was just 16 months and — a glance at the calendar — seven ...