The USDA is extending funding for its free kids’ meals program until the end of 2020, or when money runs out. The USDA said this year, many local school districts have been given partial reimbursement for each meal they give to kids. The extension of the program keeps efforts funded. Roane County, for one, served … Read more
Mayor Goodwin is closing parts of Kanawha Avenue for socially distant exercise on Sunday, September 13th, and again on Sunday, October 11th. Goodwin says the city received positive feedback about the first road closure in Kanawha City and will continue through the fall.
It’s “National Poll Worker Recruitment Day,” and county clerks across the state are on a mission to hire nine-thousand poll workers. You have to 18-years-old and registered to vote in the county where you want to work. Poll workers are sixty-dollars to train, and two-hundred-dollars to work on Election Day.
Paramedics from Kanawha and Logan counties are in Louisiana to help with Hurricane Laura relief efforts. The crews have responded to thirty calls across the state, and could be deployed until the end of September.
Eight more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia. Three of those deaths were in Kanawha County, bringing the state’s death toll to over two-hundred-twenty. There are more than 250 new cases of virus, raising the total number of active cases to over two-thousand.
Police are investigating after a woman was shot in the leg on Washington Street East. A person of interest was seen getting into a dark colored SUV that took off down Greenbrier Street and got on to I-77 traveling north.
Testimony resumes today in Cynthia Gatewood’s trial. She’s accused of stabbing a woman to death in a tobacco shop parking lot in Sissonville in 2018. Jurors saw video of her confession yesterday. It’s the first jury trial in Kanawha County since the pandemic began.
Applications for the School Clothing Allowance Program are available online. The program provides families with a 200-dollar voucher per child to buy school clothes. The pandemic is causing some changes to the program. Instead of a paper voucher, the benefits will be available by EBT card or check.
Local law enforcement officials are kicking off “Operation GPA” to keep kids safe on the road when they head back to school next week. Ambulances and police cruisers will be in school zones to remind drivers to slow down.
Health department violations were reported at seven bars in Morgantown last weekend for infractions, including a lack of social distancing, not wearing face coverings, overcrowding and for patrons drinking alcohol without ordering or consuming food. The Monongalia County Health Department said all of the citations were COVID-19-related, except for one that involved underage drinking. The … Read more