Neither rain nor snow — nor the occasional school pageant or PTA meeting — could keep Patty Cress away from her appointed rounds as a Morgantown mail […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Renaissance road trip: Mon teachers, administrators travel to Va. to tour the STEM school that is inspiring the proposed one here
LEESBURG, Va. — One student smiled and nodded hello to the tour group as she entered a glass-walled laboratory-styled space and began poring over a collection of […]
Tuskegee Airman Roberts worked just as hard waging peace
FAIRMONT — You never leave a wounded bird up there, on its own. That’s what they called them, the shot-up B-17s and B-24s, crippled by the German […]
Make a date for the ‘Wine & Shine’ Festival Saturday
With Valentine’s Day 2024 now on the books, let’s just say that – well – it could have gone better. The store-bought bouquet was hardly vase-worthy. And […]
Mon Schools wants to be an official part of the opioid settlement talks
A letter from Monongalia County Schools will be going out in the next couple of weeks or so, requesting admission to an exclusive, critical club in the […]
Mon BOE: ‘I don’t think it can be over-stressed, what we’re trying to do here’
ALEX, the artificially intelligent medical mannequin and current star of Monongalia County Schools’ MedEd program, can do a lot of things. Board of Education members discovered that […]
‘Miracle’ child galloping into recovery
Guests checking in Saturday morning at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place just had to look over, as they jockeyed their suitcases and garment bags to the […]
Tales of the Toothpick: Marion County’s Sam Jones was the first Black Major Leaguer to pitch a no-hitter
MONONGAH — Wait ’til next year. Now, the above is a baseball cliche, even more beat-up than your old Rawlings glove from Little League. Back then, though, […]
Healing, after homeroom
Alex, an outwardly genial 66-year-old wearing a ballcap emblazoned with the “M” of Morgantown High School, was reclining on an exam table, politely considering every medical query […]
February is Career Technology Education Month: Mon’s district is still working toward construction of the county’s first STEM school
Close to 45,000 high school students in West Virginia last year took career technical education courses as part of their day-to-day. More than 7,000 were graduates from […]
