Pursuing a higher education is a financially daunting task for many West Virginia students. Yes, there are lot of avenues for getting financial assistance, but the process seems complicated — sometimes to the point of leading students and their families to give up. Certainly the federal ...
A “golden age,” one in which the United States of America can aim even higher than the moon, was proclaimed Monday during President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration speech. And while Elon Musk may have thrown his hands in the air to cheer the goal to “pursue our manifest destiny into ...
* Local elementary school students can look forward to exciting lessons now that a group of teachers has been trained on use of the Digital Star Lab, on loan from the NASA IV and V Education Resource Center at the Katherine Johnson Space Center in Fairmont. “It’s exciting to see that ...
Monday may be the official celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., but Jan. 15 marked the 96th anniversary of his birth. Though King wasn’t yet 40 years old when he was gunned down in Memphis, he and others of his era inspired generations to continue the fight for civil ...
Think about how many times, during your elementary school years, an adult asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up. For many of us, there were the standard shoot-for-the-moon answers (sometimes maybe literally), but also a real beginning of pondering what was possible. That’s why ...
As mid-January tests New Year’s resolutions across the region, many may be weakening in their resolve. Certainly that must include some who vowed this is the year to give up smoking. To add a little incentive to the effort, WalletHub took a look at the true cost of tobacco use. The dollar ...
