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Transparency builds accountability, which creates students

When performance is visible, accountability follows. Being transparent with goals and outcomes achieves alignment and clarity. It demonstrates progress. It shows which people and areas are performing the best. Transparency puts performance in the light. This reduces gossip, excuses, and misinformation.  For example, a leader is not doing well in customer satisfaction. They feel the issue is the measurement tool or the staffing model. When the overall results are shared, it is evident that other leaders’ areas are performing much better. And they have the same measurement tool and ...

Area Religion Activities

Parish House Announcements, Buckhannon On the parish calendar: Sisters group meets at 9 a.m. Tuesdays at Irons Chapel, Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, for all ladies who wish to grow in their Christian walk. Pam Walling serves as facilitator. Study Group will be 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in Godwin Fellowship Hall at First United Methodist Church. Pastor Steve Meadows leads a discussion of Max Lucado’s “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Need.” All are welcome to join the conversation The Clothes Closet, located behind the Parish House at 47 Sedgewick St., welcomes ...

WVWC honors two 50-year employees

BUCKHANNON — West Virginia Wesleyan College recently recognized employees’ years-of-service milestones, as well as two employees who have served the College for 50 years, leaving a lasting impact. Dr. Kathy Gregg, who already received her retirement gift when she retired from full-time ...

What to watch for as lanternflies spread

MORGANTOWN - A fast-spreading invasive insect that can damage crops and trees has been reported in 21 West Virginia counties, posing what a West Virginia University expert calls a “serious economic threat” to the state’s agricultural industries. The spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest ...

Statewide Winners

Submitted photo The Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church After School Program students participated in the Emma Scott Garden Club Youth Poetry Contest and received many honors, including at the statewide level. From left, Lola Douglas, first-grade student at Third Ward Elementary School, won ...

Commission to offer refunds for ambulance fee

ELKINS - The Randolph County Commission announced this week that it will be submitting refunds to residents who paid the new special ambulance fee before it was suspended this month. At its previous meeting on July 2, the RCC voted to suspend the fee after the West Virginia State Tax Department expressed objections to the fee ordinance, which the Commission approved back in April. The County Commission has reached out to the state attorney general to seek advice on the service fee. "As you know, at our last meeting we suspended the special emergency ambulance service fee pending a ...