After all those low marks in reading and math assessments this fall for West Virginia’s K-12 public school students, a positive blip is now occurring on the radar as 2022 wraps to a close, Sarah Armstrong Tucker said. It comes in the form of increased enrollment this term across the ...
The pandemic pinched a communication nerve in West Virginia at its height two years ago. As COVID was then nipping at the state’s borders, Gov. Jim Justice ordered all public schools and colleges closed, in hopes of staying ahead of the contagion. For the most part, those institutions made a quick pivot to remote learning, though it didn’t take long for the gaps and deficiencies to show up, either by demographics, topography — or both. And students from all walks of the state’s educational ecosystem were mired in it. Kelly Morton, a registered nurse, is also a ...
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 response professionals at the same time. Whoa, both said Wednesday morning. We’re getting the same call. McIntire, ...
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, Olaf, Kristoff, Hans, Sven and the misunderstood Marshmallow, for the new state of being. UHS is one of 51 schools — one for each state in the U.S., plus another American high school in Germany for U.S. military families posted abroad — to stage the live musical version of “Frozen,” from the animated Disney movie of the same name. “Yeah, this a big deal,” said Richard Kyer, who teaches English and ...
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, Scotland. A total of 270 people died that day. One of the passengers on Flight 103 was Valerie Canady, an accountant who knew her way around ...
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 the renowned Red and Blue Marching Band of Morgantown High School. Director Lorne Hyskell was leading the teen players through ...
