ELKINS – At a special meeting on Wednesday evening, the Randolph County Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a budget for the next school year including a “negative contingency” of $434,388.
On May 15, the BOE had decided to report to the state that the county school system will not be able to balance its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
On Wednesday evening, Brad Smith, the Randolph County Schools’ treasurer and director of finance and purchasing, told the BOE members that,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of a shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York.
During a video call into an immigration courtroom in Manhattan, she listened as a lawyer explained to a judge how new regulations imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration — for DNA testing, income verification and more — have hobbled efforts to reunite with her parents in the U.S. for more than 70 days.
SOUTH CHARLESTON — Petersburg stayed alive in the Class AA state tournament after capturing a 12-2 win in five innings over Liberty-Raleigh in an elimination game Wednesday at Little Creek Park.
The Lady Vikings (22-11) face Logan at 10:30 a.m. today in another elimination contest, with the victor moving on to face Oak Glen, which advanced to the title contest with a 3-0 win over Logan in Wednesday’s late game.
Leading 4-0, Petersburg erupted for eight runs in the fifth inning.
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After hubris comes nemesis, and after the frenzied excesses of the woke revolution came Donald Trump.
The left didn’t lose everything with Trump’s second victory in 2024, but it did lose something that will be impossible to recover — broad cultural acquiescence to a radical agenda that briefly appeared to be sweeping all before it.
After the death of George Floyd, it seemed unlikely that five years later media outlets would be running rueful retrospectives about how the sweeping, nearly
BAKER — Third-seed East Hardy ended top-seed Tygarts Valley’s season in dramatic fashion on Wednesday night.
Mason Hamilton’s walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning allowed the Cougars to sweep the best-of-three Class A, Region II final and earn a berth in next week’s state tournament.
The Bulldogs had battled back from a 5-3 deficit take a 6-5 advantage on Jacob Wamsley’s solo homer to center in the fifth inning.
Evan Hamilton led off the seventh for East Hardy with a single
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RALLY: Randolph County Dems are hosting a rally, Do Your Job, Invest in Public Schools, today at 5 p.m. in front of the Randolph County Courthouse on Randolph Avenue in Elkins. They will be collecting new and gently used children’s books to donate to a local library.
MORGANTOWN — Kyle West’s recollection of his conversation with WVU baseball coach went back to the old days.
Well, maybe they weren’t the old days, but certainly they were different from the current state of the program.
“He was telling me there was a time when you couldn’t pay 4,000 people to come watch a game here,” the WVU outfielder recalled. “Now, we’re playing in front of 4,000 people every game.”
There is a great sense of pride in West, a native of Hedgesville, in playing some type of
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, died Monday at age 94.
His family confirmed the death in a statement provided by City College of New York spokesperson Michelle Stent. He died at a hospital in New York, Stent said.
A veteran of the Korean War, he defeated legendary Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell in 1970 to start
The lunar conjunction with Jupiter is an attitude invigorator and an invitation to shake off rigidness and pessimism in favor of mental flexibility and a youthful openness to possibilities.
The problem-solving will be at once fun and strategic, and will involve thinking creatively, questioning assumptions and exploring novel options.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ve been generous with your commitments. You used to think it was part of being a good person, but now you believe that even “good
West Virginia’s deadly substance abuse epidemic has become significantly less so lately. According to the National Center for Health Statistics through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a 43.5% decrease in overdose deaths in the state over the past year.
“That’s great news and it’s really unprecedented,” Dr. Matthew Christiansen, chief medical officer for Valley Health and a former state public health officer, told WV MetroNews.
It is wonderful news, yes, but it begs
