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John F. McCuskey The campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in the fall. (Photo Provided) CHARLESTON — West Virginia Wesleyan College received the largest one-time gift in its 130-year history for a new program aimed at students pursuing careers in science. John F. McCuskey, an attorney and former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, donated $1.5 million to West Virginia Wesleyan, a private liberal arts college in Buckhannon, to create the McCuskey Family Fellowship Program. McCuskey, who earned a bachelor’s in mathematics and a minor in physics from ...

Staff Writer Photo by Eric Ayres The Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed city officials, local dignitaries and grant recipients during a ribbon cutting for River Valley Health Foundation Inc. at 1226 Chapline St. in Wheeling. The River Valley Health Foundation also announced the distribution of $71,500 in grants to local nonprofits as well as $37,000 to four local health departments for help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution. WHEELING — The River Valley Health Foundation Inc. this past week celebrated its new location and announced the distribution of grants to several local nonprof...

Evans settling into his role as president of West Liberty University By Dr. W. Franklin Evans poses with West Liberty University officials during a ribbon cutting February 4. WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. — Dr. W. Franklin Evans says he is trying his best to balance his time between presidential duties, introducing himself to the campus life and getting to know leaders in the Wheeling area during his first days on the job as president of West Liberty University. Evans became West Liberty’s 37th president and the first president at the 183-year old institution to be a person of color when his term...

Staff Writer Photo Provided Justin Zimmerman, headmaster of The Linsly School, stands by The Aviator statue at Banes Hall on the school’s Leatherwood campus. WHEELING — Students at The Linsly School are back to school five days a week — even when it snows. Catholic schools in Ohio County also have resumed in-person education Monday through Friday, though these students were learning remotely on Monday due to the weather. At both The Linsly School and schools within the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, students in grades 5-8 are back at school five days a week after the COVID-19 pande...

These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America By Lisa Borten, Stacker News On 2/3/21 at 8:00 PM EST America's private high schools opened long before their public counterparts and even before the United States was first established. The Roman Catholic Church in the 1700s started private schools in Florida and Louisiana while in New York (a former Dutch colony called New Amsterdam), the Dutch West India Company and Dutch Reformed Church set up private schools that filled the void left by the colonies' lack of an education system. That changed in the 1840s when the U.S. instituted...