Comcast recently announced it is upgrading and expanding the reach of its network serving Preston County and will pass roughly 470 rural homes and businesses with 31 miles of new fiber construction to bring broadband service to its current video-only customers in the Rowlesburg area and new ...
KINGWOOD -- Preston County has wonderful EMS services, but they need a boost to improve their services. That’s why Commissioner Dave Price wants to inject about $400,000 of the county’s CARES money, of which it has $922,018.55, into the county’s EMS programs and establish a yearly ...
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, touched every part of America, and Preston County was no exception. Preston County Administrator Kathy Mace was then a county commissioner at home when she got a call to turn on the TV. She went to work and everyone was concerned and full of questions about ...
KINGWOOD -- Preston County Office of Emergency Management/911 is collecting damage reports related to Hurricane Ida and is working to clear blocked streams before another significant rain. Director Duane Hamilton told the Preston County Commission at its Tuesday meeting about the ...
KINGWOOD -- COVID-19 cases are increasing across the country and Preston County is no exception. As of Monday, the county's infection rate was 63.24% and its positivity rate was 9.4%, V.J. Davis, administrator for the Preston County Health Department told the Preston County Commission at ...
KINGWOOD — While working in private practice, Preston County Prosecuting Attorney James Shay noticed most prosecutor offices in the state employ an in-house investigator. Shay said hiring one for Preston County is one of the platform ideas he campaigned on. “The thing about having ...