Editor, News-Register: If you are tired in Ohio County of your kids spending hours at home staring uselessly into a computer screen under the latest version o
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Ohio County Schools Administrator of Operations David Crumm, left, explains to Bridge Street Middle School Assistant Principal Karin Butyn the bipolar ionization technology that will be implemented in the school.
WHEELING Ohio County Schools has set forth plans to attach technology to ventilation in all school buildings that is 99.4-percent effective in preventing the spread of COVID 19 molecules in school facilities.
The bipolar ionization boxes already are in place at facilities receiving HVAC upgrades through the school districts bond projects. These include Wheeling Park High School, Triadelphia Middle School and Elm Grove, Middle Creek, Steenrod and West Liberty elementary schools.
Ohio County slid back to red on Sunday’s state COVID alert map, so Ohio County Schools announced that Wheeling Park High School would stay on remote learning.
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WHEELING The Ohio County Board of Education’s president is hoping for a quick resolution to contract negotiations with the Ohio County Commission for prevention resource officers in many of their schools. That contract, which puts Ohio County sheriff’s deputies in those schools, has carried with it a price tag of more than $700,000 annually, and district officials want to make alterations.
Board President David Croft said Wednesday that the board and the county government continue to work through the details of a new contract, which would replace one that had expired in July 2020. Croft and County Solicitor Donald Tennant are handling the negotiations between the sides.
WHEELING Staff and students in Ohio County Schools returned to their school buildings Tuesday, but sheriff’s deputies stationed at several schools did not