KINGWOOD — The Preston County Commission is ready to spend some of its CARES money. The three commissioners met for a second work session Oct. 12 to discuss allocating the roughly $922,000 it received from the state as reimbursement for COVID-19-related expenses. “CARES funding ...
KINGWOOD -- The West Virginia Conservation Agency has been very helpful as it works with Preston County on stream restoration, streambank stabilization and stream blockage removal projects. That’s what County Administrator Kathy Mace told the Preston County Commission at its regular ...
KINGWOOD -- There’s a hitch in the Preston County Commissions plan to give county employees a pay raise retroactive to July 1 -- previously worked overtime. The commission unanimously voted in favor of allocating $249,412.49 from the budget towards pay raises for county employees, ...
KINGWOOD -- The Preston County Commission allotted $249,412.49 to officeholders for employee raises during a special meeting on Thursday. It was not immediately clear how much each office, such as the county assessor’s office and prosecutor’s office, will receive. County Administrator ...
KINGWOOD -- Preston County’s population is just barely large enough after the 2020 census that it will be represented by two delegates without taking population from another county after the state’s redistricting effort is complete. Del. Terri Sypolt (R - Preston, 52), briefed the ...
KINGWOOD — No one showed up to speak at the public hearing and second reading of the proposed abandoned and dilapidated property ordinance at the Preston County Commission’s regular meeting on Tuesday. The second reading of the ordinance added some amendments including designating the ...