Kanawha County is back in the yellow. The color designation on West Virginia’s county alert system on Thursday is significant because a day earlier Kanawha County was in orange. If Kanawha County’s color remained orange before the Sept. 8 start of school, it would mean schools would not open for-in person classes. All teaching will … Read more
Students attending in-person classes in Putnam County this year will see a bit of a delay to start their day. Putnam County Schools announced it is delaying the start time of the school day for all schools by 30 minutes for the 2020-21 school year. School dismissal times will remain the same. If a student … Read more
Kanawha County public school students will not be charged for breakfast or lunch again this school year. The meals are covered through a program called the Community Eligibility Provision, which is as an alternative to collecting, approving and verifying household eligibility applications for free- and reduced-price eligible students in high-poverty areas. Kanawha County Schools say … Read more
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra is canceling their concerts scheduled for October through January, because of COVID-19 concerns.
The first criminal trial since the start of the pandemic is set to take place in a Kanawha County courtroom. Cynthia Gatewood’s trial will start Monday. She’s accused of stabbing a woman outside a convenience store. Procedures have been modified for social distancing, including the use of bluetooth headphones for bench conferences.
More than a dozen students at WVU are on probation for violating COVID-19 rules. Fifteen more students could face probation, in connection to parties earlier this month near campus.
Three more people in West Virginia have died from COVID-19, and there are 145 new cases of the virus. The state’s positive test rate is over two-point-three-percent.
Kanawha County is moving into the “orange category” after the rolling seven-day average of COVID-19 cases climbed to over twelve. That means schools can’t open for in-person learning. The map is updated daily, and it won’t have an immediate impact, since schools don’t open until September 8th.
A Kanawha County Judge is putting Thomas Bass on probation. He’s charged with making terroristic threats after leaving messages on the Kanawha County School district’s tip line that someone was going to shoot up or blow up South Charleston Middle School. Bass will spend eighteen months on probation with mental health treatment.
An Ohio murder suspect is under arrest in Clendenin. Twenty-five-year-old Jacob Harper is accused of shooting and killing a man in the rural area of Kimbolton. Police got a tip that he was staying with a family member in the area.