Jim Smith, the director of MECCA 911, was on the phone with Chris McIntire, his counterpart in neighboring Marion County, when the obvious realization hit both emergency […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
MECCA 911, Morgantown High targeted in statewide ‘swatting’ hoax
No, I’m a teacher. I’ve got kids in here who have been shot. That’s right, my classroom. No, I don’t know how bad they are. Yeah, there’s […]
Asa Davison: Battlefield blessings, for the Black veteran of World War II
MONONGAH – One of the first things you see when you walk into Asa and Dolores Davison’s room is a poster with a heartfelt message. “Choose faith […]
Disney exclusive: UHS one of 50 schools in the nation earning the rights to stage ‘Frozen’ musical
Things are currently on the frozen side at University High School, and Monday morning’s 20-degree temperatures didn’t have a thing to do with it. Thank Anna, Elsa, […]
After losing his daughter and wife months apart, Dr. Jon LaPlante to talk about luck, suicide and friends who care
Dr. Jon LaPlante used to shake his head and wonder at the marvel of it all. “I was the luckiest guy in the world,” the Morgantown native […]
‘We just had to have something beautiful come out of something so horrible’
On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb smuggled into the back of Pan Am Flight 103 turned the plane into a fireball, some 30,000 feet over Lockerbie, […]
On the edge of your seat: MHS band ‘uninstalls’ a fundraiser at Milan Puskar stadium
It was a couple of Julys ago at a COVID-abbreviated band camp near Morgantown, and this band was most assuredly working it, on an almost-sweltering day. Meet […]
Divisive politics hurting public schools, California educators say
Poetry, Robert Frost said, makes you remember — what you didn’t know you knew. Which, in many ways mirrors the findings of a study on life in […]
Storms fell trees, knock down pavilion
Lashing winds and storms roiled through the area Wednesday, toppling trees and knocking down a pavilion that was under construction at Mason-Dixon Park. “It wasn’t so much […]
Parents need to work on emotional homework post-COVID, Mon Schools administrator says
Elementary school scenes from a pandemic: There was case of the little girl couldn’t stop crying one morning. In those pre-vaccine days, she was convinced her grandmother, […]
