Deputies are asking for the public’s help in identifying a person who was caught potentially trespassing in Putnam County. Authorities are looking for an individual caught on surveillance video trespassing through the property of Triad Engineering, according to a post from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. The footage shows a man in a hooded shirt traveling in a truck with a distinctive decal on the windshield. You can see the videos on the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Deputies said that once identified, the man is wanted for questioning. If you have information, call the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
The nation’s top FEMA official traveled to McDowell County Friday afternoon in response to the deadly, destructive flooding that hit there in mid-February. The official urged people to sign up for assistance and promised the agency was working to simplify that process. McDowell County was one of the hardest hit areas in the February flooding with an estimated $40 million in public damage. Sen.Jim Justice joined acting the FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton in McDowell County Friday to deliver an update on the recovery effort. Justice, the state’s former governor, lamented that he lacked some powers he had as governor that allowed him a quick disaster response. Sen. Justice urged locals to pull together as Hamilton urged people to sign up for FEMA help.
It was a full house at the Huntington City Council’s public budget hearing on Thursday night. The hearing was overflowing out of the small meeting room with community members waiting to speak about their concerns over mayor Patrick Farrell’s proposal to cut funding to the Huntington City Mission and the Huntington Cabell-Wayne Animal Shelter for the upcoming year. Several dozen people stood up to the podium over the almost four-hour hearing, but the mayor wasn’t in the room to hear it. “Closing the emergency shelter doesn’t make anybody safer. It just pushes more people out into the freezing colds to suffer,” a Huntington resident said at the podium. It’s giving no help to the helpless. The mayor addressed the council prior to the public comment portion.