Mothers want damages for field trip pricking incident
Mothers of four students who were pricked by a chaperone while on a field trip are seeking $600,000 each in compensatory and punitive damages from the Board of Education, a BOE employee who was on the trip and the woman convicted of child abuse resulting in injury.
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Board of Education met Monday in regular session
The Board of Education met for a regular meeting on Monday with a routine agenda. Michelle Jeffers reported that the students in grades three through eight and grade ten began taking the WESTEST on Monday and will resume on Wednesday. She said the testing went smoothly on the first day. (The WESTEST is in West Virginia to measure student progress as required under the federal No Child Left Behind legislation.)
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Far from home, two Confederate casualties remembered
In a Berkeley County cemetery last weekend, two sons of Pocahontas County were honored after lying silent and unidentified for some 144 years.
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Elk watershed plan first of its knid in state
Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the first in a series of watershed planning meetings held two weeks ago got off to a rocky start.
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Randolph County educator pleads guilty to sexual abuse
A Randolph County teacher and FFA sponsor pleaded guilty to first degree sexual abuse in Pocahontas County Circuit Court Friday.
James Christopher Beatty, 28, of Elkins, entered his plea before Chief Circuit Judge Joseph C. Pomponio in connection with a charge that was brought against him last August.
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Margistrate Court - May 15, 2008
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Irvine, Beverage only incumbents to return to courthouse offices
Pocahontas County voters turned out in big numbers Tuesday to make changes in courthouse offices. Sixty-eight percent of registered Democrat voters cast ballots, and 43.83 percent of Republicans voted in the Primary.
Only Assessor Dolan Irvine, who was unopposed, and Magistrate Kathy Beverage, who ran in a field of four, will return to their offices in January. Neither has a Republican challenger in November.
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Child advocacy centers receive state support
The colorful murals, toys and stuffed animals in the waiting area of Lewisburg’s Child and Youth Advocacy Center belie the fact that serious work goes on there.
Yet the work is serious, and because of their impact on children and communities around the state, West Virginia legislators have recently chosen to put state funding into centers like the one in Greenbrier County.
Beginning this summer, the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network will receive $1 million from the state budget to support the state’s growing child advocacy centers and fund training programs.
The centers have become the front line in the investigation of cases of physical and sexual abuse of children, drawing on the support of law enforcement, child protective services and county prosecutors.
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Upper Elk watershed plan takes shape
Last Tuesday found Slaty Fork area residents grappling with the arguments of the past while finding a way to create a plan for the valley’s future.
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Farm Bureau offers oil and gas lease advice
Two speakers at a Farm Bureau meeting in Marlinton last week advised landowners to proceed with caution when dealing with oil and gas companies that want to lease their land.
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