Schools

Morgan County Schools' Maintenance Supervisor Alston Yost briefed school board members on recent efforts to fix a failing septic system at Pleasant View Elementary School in eastern Morgan County.

At the February 3 board meeting, Yost said the 30-year-old system has backed up on several occasions in the last few months, and was requiring more and more frequent septic pumping.

Berkeley Springs High School student Ashley Stotler will travel to China this summer as a student ambassador for the People to People program.

Stotler, an eleventh grader, was nominated for the program by an unknown teacher. She was notified by letter in October that she had been chosen for the honor.

Students chosen for Paw Paw School January Students of the Month are:

Gwen Kesner is in kindergarten and is the daughter of Emma and Richard Kesner. She likes counting, reading the morning message board, drawing and playing outside.

Stubborn winter weather two weeks ago pushed Morgan County's school calendar off track, driving the number of snow days past the four already built in to the academic schedule.

So far this year, local schools have closed six days (seven in Paw Paw) because of bad weather or hazardous road conditions.

The Morgan County Partnership would like to introduce Susan Caperton as the new Project Director of the partnership's staff. She is a retired lawyer and has spent the past 10 years active in community work and raising her three daughters with her husband Gat Caperton.

Students chosen at Paw Paw School for December Students of the Month:

Kindergarten - Elizabeth White, first grade - Damon Spencer, second grade - Cody Garris, third grade - Tristan Kesner, fourth grade - Austin Bullett, fifth grade - Brian Twigg, sixth grade - Jade Kerns, Middle School - Dee Julian, High School - Tim Pracht.

Warm Springs Middle School announces its students of the month for November.

The sixth graders chosen this month are Victoria Crone, Brittany Fairbrother and Brittany Via.

PLEASANT VIEW ELEMENTARY

Second Nine Weeks

Second and third grade, Pirates-5 Tar Heels-36.

Pirates: Landon Ridgeway, five points, Christian Braithwaite, Haven Irwin, Nathaniel Baker, John Wolfe and Mathew Kidwell.

Local students putting together WV Teen Zine, the online magazine for Morgan County youth, got lessons in the power of the press when they took a trip to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 2008.

The Newseum is a museum displaying the history of journalism, combining five centuries of news history with modern technolody and hands-on exhibits.