MORGANTOWN – Tuesday’s midterm election may have been just hours away, but Reese Allen didn’t have to do any politicking the day before at South Middle for the Coolest Dude in School vote. Nope, the only thing the Mountaineer mascot needed to do on Monday morning – was to show up in ...
MORGANTOWN - Six hundred ninety-one individual students in Monongalia County received funds last school year from the Hope Scholarship program, according to the program's 2025-26 Annual Report, published last week. The Hope Scholarship is an educational savings account program for families ...
CHARLESTON - A lawsuit filed on behalf of Lincoln County families to reform West Virginia's complicated school aid formula could be delayed until after the 2027 legislation session, providing state officials time to develop a fix. Respondents in a lawsuit filed in September by the ACLU of ...
MORGANTOWN – From cookie dough to cardiac arrest, Aaliyah Conley had a pretty full morning Friday at South Middle School. “Yeah, I really like the hands-on stuff,” said the seventh-grader at the school on East Parkway Drive. Hands-on, it was. Aaliyah was among scores of ...
KINGWOOD – Continued decline in student enrollment was once again a topic at this week's Board of Education meeting. “In assessing our initial enrollment submission to the WVDE, it appears that enrollment will again be down by approximately 143 students with 8 of 9 schools seeing ...
FAIRMONT – Marion Schools Superintendent Donna Heston told Board of Education members what they already knew last week. That the district, she said, can’t keep operating at its current levels in the face of declining enrollment. “This is the first time Marion County lost over 300 ...
