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Preston County BOE clarifies where levy funds are spent

KINGWOOD — How the school levy impacts sports and fundraising by boosters was clarified at this week’s Preston County Board of Education meeting. Representatives of the Preston High School Athletic Boosters asked the board how much money sports will receive from the school levy passed in February and how it will be distributed. “Through the levy, there wasn’t a category to give money to sports,” Superintendent Steve Wotring said. However, he explained, each school receives an allocation that can be used for field trips, and schools may opt to spend part of their allocation ...

Camp Flintlock’s colonial reenactment visits St. Francis

Adam Young played his share of bleak, post-Apocalyptic video games when he was kid — but not for the reasons you might think. He wasn’t zoning out on the pixilated tales of zombies running amok in decimated towns and cities. Nor was he dwelling on dystopian storylines, as a whole. But he was concentrating on the characters depicted, while the game’s algorithms unspooled. To his imagination, those avatars he and his buddies were controlling really were fighting for their personal survival and for the survival of a society. Through and through, Young was a 21st ...

BOE launches program to help students leave stress at home

The majority of Mountain State students who enter high school as freshmen leave like they’re supposed to. That is, four years later (or thereabouts), they gleefully turn their tassels on Graduation Day. In fact, the 89.4% high school graduation rate West Virginia boasted in 2017 was ...

Kingwood man denied acquittal, new trial

KINGWOOD — Motions for an acquittal and a new trial were denied for a Kingwood man Tuesday. George Elmer Dumire was indicted by the March Grand Jury for delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, delivery of a controlled substance (Percocet), aiding and ...

Decreased water levels send boats to dry land; drop expected to continue

A number of Cheat Lake boaters are hurrying to get their vessels on dry land after receiving news — most of it through texts and social media posts — that the water level is going to continue to be dropped by the operators of the nearby Lake Lynn hydroelectric facility for the foreseeable ...

Three past Queen Ceres tend to former mentor’s garden

KINGWOOD — Bill and Mildred Lindley have been involved with the Preston County Buckwheat Festival since 1966. Earlier this year, Mildred died of cancer. She was a master gardener and her flowers and plants were her pride and joy. After her passing, Lindley hasn’t been able to keep up with them. On Saturday, several past Queen Ceres, Samantha Stone, Queen Ceres 1998; Jessica Lipscomb, Queen Ceres 2006; and Vanessa Hayes, Queen Ceres 2004; and their families surprised Lindley by tending to his wife’s plants before the festival. “Bill organizes the parade for the floats,” ...