A Princeton nursing home continues to struggle with a COVID-19 outbreak. Twenty residents and two-dozen staff members at the Princeton Health Care Center have tested positive, and four people have died. Another round of testing was completed yesterday.
There are nearly 120 new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and active cases rose by six, up to over 18-hundred. West Virginia’s “rate of spread” number fell to point-ninety-two, which is the eighth lowest in the country.
St. Francis Hospital is being designated as a surge hospital for COVID-19, and has now accepted its first coronavirus patient. St. Francis reconfigured two floors in April, and added beds and equipment to support up to seventy-five COVID-19 patients. Hospitalizations continue to climb in West Virginia, with 123 patients in the hospital with the virus.
A Cabell Midland High School football player tested positive for COVID-19. Workouts are on hold, and the rest of the team is self-isolating.
Two West Virginia education unions are criticizing Governor Justice, saying that his announcement about children going back to school lacked specific details about how the plan will be carried out, and how students and employees will be protected. Earlier this week the governor announced color-coded guidelines and said children would return to school September 8th, … Read more
The Scott Depot Kroger store is expanding. The supermarket will expand into the former Kmart store located next door. Kroger plans to begin constructing in late August, and the expansion will be completed by the summer of 2021.
Senator Joe Manchin is not a fan of the new deadline for the U.S. Census. The senator called the decision to move the self-reporting deadline up by a month “asinine.” The response rate remains is less than 55-percent, which ranks West Virginia 48th for census reporting. The deadline is now September 30th.
About sixty-percent of WVU’s classes will be offered online for the fall semester. All other classes will be in-person, or in hybrid mode, that includes a mix of in-person and online elements. Students can change courses based on their preference now that some classes have been transferred to online only. The fall semester begins August … Read more
Charleston police are investigating after a man was shot and killed during an argument with two other men on Park Drive. So far, no arrests have been made.
West Virginia will receive more than 14-million-dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to modernize drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in six rural counties. The money will go toward projects in Sand Fork, Grant County, Ripley, the Little Creek Public Service District and the Bluewell Public Service District.