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More than seventy students and five staff members are being quarantined after an employee at Scott High School tested positive for COVID-19.

A dozen Kanawha County schools are reporting COVID-19 cases. The school system has a total of seventeen cases. The most recent were confirmed at Montrose and Mary Ingles elementary schools.

Kanawha County reached ‘red’ status on Wednesday and in addition to schools having to rely on remote learning, social gatherings of more than ten people are on hold. Travel sports teams also can’t play. Kanawha County hit 25.02 per 100,000 cases Wednesday, and being above the threshold of 25 sent the county into the red. … Read more

The game time for Saturday’s Marshall University and Appalachian State football game has been moved, and there is a change in television coverage. The game will now be played at 3:30 p.m. and will be carried by CBS. Marshall won its first game of the season 59-0 over Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 5.

The show is going on at Alban Arts Center. The theater opened its third production this week since the pandemic effectively shut down almost all live theater around the US. The performace of “Alice in Wonderland,” uses green-screen technology instead of elaborate sets and backgrounds are digitally painted so the actors can’t see what’s on … Read more

A new Golden Girls-inspired bagel shop is opening within the next few months in downtown Charleston. Golden Bagel Co. is opening at the corner of Capitol and Lee streets. The co-owner of Rock City Cake Co. is behind the new bagel shop and the Gazette-Mail reported they’re targeting early January to have the 1,600-square-foot facility … Read more

Sheriff Mike Rutherford said he was notified Thursday of a positive COVID-19 Case involving a Sheriff’s Department employee. The Sheriff’s Office is working with the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department to complete proper contact tracing to determine if any other employees in the Sheriff’s Department were in direct contact with the positive employee.

The City of Huntington is applying for a federal grant to create its own internet service. City leaders say the current service is too slow to attract new businesses.

Governor Justice is using six-million-dollars in CARES Act funding to help essential workers with child care. Money was set to run out at the end of the month, but the additional funding will provide support through the end of the year.

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department will hold a free drive-up COVID-19 testing event at their office on Lee Street East. No appointment is necessary.