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Military dad home from yearlong deployment surprises daughter at school

That old rule they say applies to baseball just might hold true if you’re a kid whose dad gets deployed to war zones for a living, too. Especially if you’re Arianna Barclay.  “Yeah, she’s pretty tough,” Jason Barclay said of his daughter.   “She may not cry ...

UMWA Career Centers will help find workers for Sparkz facility

RUFF CREEK, Pa. – The United Mine Workers of America Career Centers in the Greene County community of Ruff Creek, Pa., will be recruiting and training workers for a manufacturing facility in north-central West Virginia that will be used for lithium iron phosphate raw material production, it ...

Mon Schools: Direction, in diversity

If you want to know about diversity in Monongalia County Schools, you may want to look back to a sunny March afternoon more than 10 years ago.  That’s when young Viraat Das became a breakout star of the county spelling bee.  Viraat leveled whole lexicons of words that were ...

South Middle swims with the sharks at MTEC

No 'want-preneurs' here. Or, in other words: When life gives you glue in your hair — you make hair gel, in response. That was point of the across-the-parking-lot pitch Thursday afternoon at the Monongalia Technical Educational Center. Dwight Overstreet, who teaches career ...

Marion County school named National Blue Ribbon School

A nice green salad to go with a blue ribbon? If you have an association with Pleasant Valley Elementary School, you can say yes to both. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona last week named the Marion County school a National Blue Ribbon School for 2024. The school near ...

Mon BOE presents hopes and concerns to lawmakers ahead of election

Looking back, Joe Statler still can’t help but be amazed at the decided, non-reaction he got that day. When he took the shotgun to school, that is. Statler, who represents Monongalia County in the West Virginia House of Delegates, told the story in familiar territory on Tuesday ...