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it is anticipated that Citynet’s Line Extension Advancement and Development (LEAD) and its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) projects in the county will be signing up customers for service by the end of the year as well.

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Over the years, I’ve been blessed to interview a lot of people doing amazing work, but every so often I sit across from somebody and you can tell it isn’t a job or a project—it’s a vocation a life’s calling. That’s what it was like talking with retired military veterans John and Noelle Corley. In…

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Rebinski said their goal is to increase the coverage in the southern part of the county from 4 nights per week to 7 nights a week.

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A Franklin, WV man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison in the malicious wounding of his weeks-old infant daughter at a Highland County home last February. Dressed in orange and black jail garb, Timothy Windett, age 33, declined to make a statement before Highland Circuit Court Judge Edward K. Stein issued his sentence…

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A Monterey man charged last year with shooting at his girlfriend as she sat in her SUV will serve months in jail after pleading guilty in the firearms assault. Charles “Chuck” H. Smith, age 56, entered guilty pleas of shooting into an occupied vehicle and destruction of property charges, both of which are felonies. During…

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Highland County Supervisors have voted to cover a $687,000 schools matching-grant spending shortfall that has haunted them for months. In doing so, the board, in essence, is gambling on proposed deal that could see the state return 75 percent of those dollars to fund future capital improvement projects to benefit students. After a lengthy discussion…

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It didn’t take long for Highland County School Board members to get back to work after electing a new chair and vice-chair during their first monthly meeting of 2026. The three-member board on Jan. 16th elected Vice Chair Sherry Sullenberger as the chairman, then chose last year’s chair, Jason Wilfong, to serve as vice chair….

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Highland County officials appear to be warming to creating a new financial director position, but just how that position will be funded is still undecided. The brainchild to create the position was Jayson Wilfong, the former County School Board Chairman, who suggested the county create the position during a Board of Supervisors’ meeting last July….

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