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JOSELYN KING Staff Writer WHEELING The Ohio County Board of Education’s move to cut its allocations to the county library by a third isn’t sitting well with local historian Margaret Brennan of Wheeling. Brennan addressed the board this week, thanking the board and the school system for efforts displayed during the pandemic. She then asked why the board chose to reduce the money it gives the library. The board voted 3-2 on April 26 to reduce the amount of its library contribution from three cents per $100 of assessed county property value, to two cents. The reduction is projected to lower the next fiscal year’s funding to the library from approximately $884,547 to $589,698. ....
Staff Writer Photo by Joselyn King Ohio County Schools Director of Operations David Crumm addresses board of education members Monday regarding improvements at Triadelphia Middle School and Steenrod Elementary School. WHEELING The Triadelphia Middle School annex will remain standing and won’t be demolished once an addition is constructed to the main school building this summer, Ohio County Board of Education members learned Monday night. Their next decision will be whether to spend $182,000 on a flood mitigation project at nearby Steenrod Elementary School, or see if a more cost-effective plan would alleviate flooding issues experienced at the school in recent years. ....
Staff Writer Photo Provided Wheeling Park High School senior Ellen Stillion nurtures the flowers in the schoolâs greenhouse that will be available to the public on Monday. WHEELING Wheeling Park High School’s student-run greenhouse will be blooming with business starting Monday when it opens its doors to the public. Meanwhile, WPHS Principal Meredith Dailer wants the Patriots’ popular feature to branch out into an even bigger project. Dailer told board of education members this week the next step is to grow the greenhouse’s popularity into a full-scale agriculture business program at the school. The West Virginia Department of Education has been asking WPHS to offer an agriculture program at the school for more than a decade, Dailer said. She was joined by Assistant Principal Stephanie Bugaj, who serves as coordinator of the schools career and technical programs. ....
Staff Writer WHEELING The Wheeling-Ohio County Board of Education’s vote earlier this week to reduce funding to the Ohio County Public Library by a third is expected to negatively impact the facility’s ability to continue its outreach programs and provide resources, according to the library’s director. At Monday’s meeting, the board voted 3-2 to reduce the funding provided to the library for the coming fiscal year from 3 cents per $100 of assessed property value to 2 cents. This will cut the funding to be contributed to the library from about $884,547 a year to $589,698. Board President David Croft said later that the money saved from that funding reduction will go to filling in where necessary on the $76 million in property improvement projects in progress around the district. ....
[email protected] WHEELING Parents and bus drivers will have an extra layer of depth to their students’ bus rides, starting next year, with the integration of GPS systems into their bus routes. Ohio County Schools Director of Operations David Crumm discussed the prospect at Monday evening’s board meeting, getting the board’s approval to go ahead with the Edulog route management software. The software, Crumm said after the meeting, has a number of benefits for the district, its drivers, and parents. Through an app, parents can ask to be notified when their child’s bus enters a certain radius around their house, alerting them that they will soon be needed to pick up their student at the bus stop. At Monday’s meeting, Crumm said parents being absent from bus stops was a perennial problem. ....