West Virginia schools are expected to open on September eighth, and the Cabell County Board of Education approved its reopening plan. The plan includes in-person learning, virtual learning, and a blended version of instruction. Due to the pandemic, plans could change. The board will provide updates on their website.
The 31st annual Great Kanawha river Cleanup event is canceled to COVID-19 concerns. The even typically takes place the first weekend in September. The event is expected to be rescheduled in 2021.
State revenue numbers are above projections for July. That was expected since the April 15th tax deadline was pushed back to this week. More than two-hundred-million-dollars was collected in the first two weeks of July. That’s over eighty-million-dollars ahead of original projections.
Monongalia County’s current rate of positive COVID-19 case qualifies it as one the country’s hot spots. The county has confirmed more than six-hundred cases of the virus, and four-hundred cases are active. The Harvard Global Health Institute says 25 cases over a seven day period poses a risk to public health, and stay-at-home orders are … Read more
West Virginia is reporting another day with one-hundred new cases of COVID-19, and the state’s overall positive test rate climbed to two-point-thirteen-percent. There are a total of over 46-hundred positive cases, and the death toll remains at 99.
A House of Delegates employee has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee was at the Capitol on Monday for the Health and Human Resources Committee meeting, and the person had contact with employees in the Clerk’s Office, which is closed until it can be sanitized. People who attended the meeting are being asked to self-quarantine, … Read more
Governor Justice is against a special session, but legislators continue to push for one, to oversee aspects of the state’s COVID-19 response, including the allocation of one-point-twenty-five-billion-dollars in federal relief funds. Delegate Mick Bates held a virtual town hall with Senator Joe Manchin, where he said the state shouldn’t receive any money from the federal … Read more
A man is in critical condition after a shooting on Central Avenue, nearly Copley Garage. An investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made.
The investigation at the Clarksburg VA Hospital is not over, according to Senator Shelley Moore Capito. Earlier this week, 46-year-old Reta Mays pleaded guilty to seven counts of second-degree murder. She admitted she didn’t have a medical license, degree, or certification, and she has not explained why she injected veterans with fatal doses of insulin. … Read more
The West Virginia State fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a deadly fire in Williamstown. Fifty-six-year-old Wayne Cunningham died in a fire at his home on Williams Highway. Two other people escaped with minor injuries.