Jim Bissett

Call it a post-COVID push of the good kind.  West Virginia’s fourth- and eighth-graders in 2024 continued to inch steady improvements in reading and math scores, despite […]

If you were traveling on the eastbound lane of Interstate 68’s Cheat Lake Bridge around noon or thereafter during last Sunday’s snowstorm, Monongalia County Sheriff Todd Forbes […]

Students don’t sit still in Kerianne Smead’s classroom at Morgantown High School, and she doesn’t either. That’s by design. Her charges are constantly on their feet, engaging […]

Saturday’s Unity Breakfast at WVU honoring the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t so much about the Dream – as it was the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE Morgantown’s Community Coalition for Social Justice (CCSJ) is celebrating this Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at 2 p.m. Read more […]

BY JIM BISSETT JBissett@DominionPost.com There’s nothing wrong with that gleaming, futuristic-looking treadmill your kids went in on to buy for you. Back in 2019. Now it hangs […]

Tuesday night’s contests for the state House of Delegates in Marion and Taylor counties yielded one close contest and wins by incumbents in others.   Rick Garcia, […]

Hollie McGilton never ignores a text message. Not because she’s obsessed with her cell phone, mind you. It’s because it might be from one of her students, […]

New smartphone-free guidelines for Monongalia County Schools? Hey – they’re in the bag, Mitch Channell called out Tuesday. Or rather, in the pouch, the principal of Clay-Battelle […]

Put me in, Coach. For a while during the height of the pandemic, high school sports lost its collective legs altogether — and team sports in the […]