Schools

A Honor Roll

Ninth grade: Jordan Bennett, Brooke Booher, Emily Breeden, Deidra Burch, Amanda Burns, Lydia Butts, Erin Close, Toni Davison, Shane Delacruz, Amanda Divel, Chelsea Fischer, Colten French, Charles Fultz III, Josie Ganoe, Jessica Graham, Amber Harris, Rebekah Henry, Macy Houck, Alethia Hovermale, Rebecca Lane, Charlotte Lawhorne, Rachel Lawhorne, Dakota Maravelis, Monica McBee, Loguen McKee, Breana McNelly, Courtney McPeak, Samantha Michael, Courtney Miller, Tyler Miller, Zane Mokhiber, Jacob Montague, Virginia Moss-Sisler, Kayla Mundey, Rachelle Myer, Brittaney Napfel, Kathryn Robinson, Chelsea Royster, Nettie Ruppert-Tilton, Brady Smith, Andrew Truax, Rex Truax, Cassidy Watson, Kelsey Weimer, Zachary White, Samantha Wingard and Rachel Wurster.

The Potomac Valley Audubon Society is now accepting applications for its 2009 summer youth camp scholarship program.

Each year, the program helps send deserving area youngsters to summer camps that emphasize conservation and the environment.

Tony's Pizza and Food Lion helped sponsor a luncheon in honor of the high school science fair participants at Berkeley Springs High School on February 5.

Students participating in the 2009 Science Fair could attend the celebration.

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.