The redbuds are in full bloom at the Core Arboretum. And so was the delighted laugh this past Thursday afternoon of a certain director of the old-growth […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Mon BOE moves to adopt levy rates Tuesday night
While Monongalia County Schools is engaged in the marketing of the Renaissance Academy, the proposed standalone school for science, technology, engineering and math that would be the […]
WV BeerFest: Country Roads Trust and a cold one, also
Take me foam, country roads. When you belly up to the inaugural WV BeerFest on Saturday at Mylan Park, you won’t just be celebrating all the craft […]
Running for Katy’s life (and yours, too)
FAIRMONT — Kaitlynn Jade “Katy” Newbraugh, by the accounting of all who knew her, was a top-achieving kid who cared about her family, her neighbors and the […]
Comfort Zone Camp: ‘I knew I was gonna be OK’
Say you’re a kid. And you just lost your mom or dad. Maybe it was a all at once. A heart attack. Or car wreck. They were […]
METC student on proposed Renaissance Academy: ‘Build it’
Summer Johnson drew a big laugh during Friday’s panel discussion on the Renaissance Academy. That’s the name of the standalone school devoted to STEM (science, technology, engineering […]
METC job fair brings 60 businesses to campus
Students at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center set about crafting their careers Friday morning. The tech campus on Mississippi Street hosted a job fair featuring some […]
Mon Schools receive money for MTEC after all
The venue couldn’t have been more appropriate, Eddie Campbell Jr. said Thursday. Campbell, Monongalia County’s superintendent of schools, was talking about Gov. Jim Justice’s appearance the day […]
‘Her birthday is even more memorable’
Relatively speaking, Carmella Di Claudio was going to cast a pretty big shadow, anyway. Newborns weighing nearly 10 pounds — 9.6, to be exact — have ways […]
Mon Schools tapped into technology
Back in the prehistoric technology days of the year 2000, West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing had to pull the plug on WVU. Not that it wanted […]
