Walk in at Fawley Music on any given day and you’ll likely hear it. The hot guitar solo. Or, the attempted hot guitar solo, whenever a customer […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
‘Check your bayonets’: Remembering D-Day, and the hours after
“I’m no better than anyone else.” That statement, in effect, was what put Foster Feathers in that landing craft, in the chop of Omaha Beach, on June […]
Gabrielle Chico earns Yanni scholarship
Gabrielle Chico, a recent University High School graduate and completer at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center, is among 30 students from 19 counties across the state […]
Fairmont State to help launch the only program in the nation for students in foster care
FAIRMONT – Consider the number of kids in foster care in West Virginia. Right now, there are 6,094 children and teens here in that circumstance, according to […]
Mon Schools’ ‘Sizzler’ literacy program gets a read on summer
Don’t wait for the movie – read the book. And enjoy a nice snack box from Monongalia County Schools while you’re at it. That’s the motivation behind […]
Cheyenne O’Dowd was in the business of caring
Carolyn O’Dowd will never forget the Post-It notes. Thousands of them, literally, that she helped her daughter, Cheyenne O’Dowd, write during Cheyenne’s senior year of high school […]
Nancy Walker wants Mon’s BOE to go to school on the failure of The Renaissance Academy bond measure
Nancy Walker, the longest-tenured member of the Monongalia County Board of Education, who is stepping down this summer after 28 years in her elected post, asked her […]
Clay-Battelle Class of 2024: Of ‘The Lion King’ and life’s simple pleasures
BLACKSVILLE — Calliope Beers — “Cal,” to all who know her — didn’t have to paint a picture Sunday afternoon. “Oh, yeah, I’ll definitely miss people,” the […]
Don Wilcox: WVU marching band director was about pride, personality and performance
Like the state of West Virginia formation on the 50-yard-line during halftime at Mountaineer Field, the tributes kept lining up Tuesday for Don Wilcox, the director emeritus […]
MHS Class of 2024: ‘It started out being weird — but it worked out’
Abigail Duncan was an eighth-grader when the call came down. It was March 13, 2020 – Friday, the 13th – and Gov. Jim Justice had just ordered […]
