FAIRMONT – A series of allegedly explicit videos sent over the summer led to the child pornography arrest of Marion County teacher Michael Joseph Carpenter, court documents show. Carpenter, 43, the choir director of East Fairmont High School, was taken into custody at the school Tuesday ...
FAIRMONT – Michael Joseph Carpenter, the East Fairmont High School choir director charged with possessing child pornography, remained lodged in North Central Regional Jail on Wednesday following his arrest the day before. West Virginia State Police arrived at the school on Airport Road on ...
FAIRMONT – A reported incident "involving a teacher” sent West Virginia State Police to East Fairmont High School on Tuesday morning, the district said. “This morning at approximately 10:20 a.m., Marion County Schools was informed by law enforcement agencies that West Virginia State ...
CHARLESTON – West Virginia’s 55 county public school districts saw their largest combined drop in student enrollment since the period spanning the worst of the COVID-10 pandemic. According to numbers released Tuesday by the West Virginia Department of Education, the fall headcount ...
FAIRMONT – Four students from Marion County Schools are in elite academic company these days, and the quartet took up a sizable part of the proceedings during the district’s Board of Education meeting this week. “This is an honor,” Superintendent Donna Heston said, as she introduced ...
MORGANTOWN - Spark! Imagination and Science Center hosts its first-ever aviation event, Spark Takes Flight!, on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The experience will take place at its location at 5000 Green Bag Road at the Mountaineer Mall. The goal of the one-day-only exhibition is ...
