B … Y … Yinz. Julie Russin has lived and worked in a couple of different places in the country and she’s a proud graduate of Brigham […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Gourds, go long: Ridgedale Elementary stages annual pumpkin drop
What’s that? You think you might be in the market for an adept engineer or sharp payload specialist … say, 15 years from now? Well, don’t go […]
Advocate for special-needs students: ‘The system is broken’
More training. More access. More accountability. Saying the above out loud only takes about three seconds. However, it’s taken Christina Smith a decade to get that trio […]
Mon Schools releases its report on electric bus plan
More than 32,000 miles in 18 counties, with nary a hitch. The above means the BEAST didn’t do bad at all on West Virginia’s challenging two-lanes last […]
No COVID breakouts (so far) in Mon Schools this year, district says
Eddie Campbell Jr., superintendent of Monongalia County Schools, said last week there are two things he enjoys not having to do this fall – as his district […]
SBA director: Current square-footage rate for new school construction isn’t enough
Next month, 28 public school districts from across West Virginia will present their needs projects to the state School Building Authority. The SBA is the agency that […]
Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity shutters its ‘ReStore’ outlet in Sabraton — as it looks forward to more home-builds
Close one door – open three more. Discontinuing the ReStore for Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity wasn’t an easy decision, said Elaine Holstine McVay, the executive director […]
‘George’s legacy is always going to be in bloom around here’
Frank Scafella gets a charge whenever he looks out the window to regard those yellow flowers in his side yard. “I still don’t know what the heck […]
UHS baseball complex now on deck
Build it, and they will come. So goes the (paraphrased) quote from “Field of Dreams,” the 1989 mystical movie about the Iowa farmer who decides to build […]
Meet Nevelyn Flemming: Mon Schools’ first-ever Student of the Month
Nevelyn Flemming isn’t one to brag, but she is a pretty big deal in Monongalia County’s school district these days. That’s because the third-grader at Suncrest Elementary […]
