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The Festival returns March 14th-15th and 21st-22nd

We currently receive state aid as if our student enrollment is 1400 students instead of the actual 833 students attending school here at $6,100.00 per student per year but only for 1200 students under this law, a loss of 1.8 million dollars per year.

When the vote was called Henderson and McLaughlin voted to enter into the agreement then the whole room held their breath as Cobb paused before voting.

Interdiction for school systems often last three to seven years. What we have accomplished in a short time is extraordinary.

Traditional tunes, beautiful harmonies and some fancy footwork – Opry Night at the Pocahontas Opera House has it all!

Singh said such delays or changes could result in the risk of lost time, lost momentum, and potentially loss of the entire opportunity for our rural communities as well as endangering future federal rural healthcare funding opportunities.

Triplett also talked about the new FEMA flood plain maps which expand the previous flood plain areas in the county that took effect last July. The new maps used lidar sensing that is designed to determine more accurate elevations than the previous flood plain maps which computed elevations based on old topo maps.

Cobb had stated that he wanted the SWA to simply transport their trash to the Greenbrier County Landfill themselves to avoid having to raise the cost of the green boxes and the tipping fee., however Chris McComb, the Landfill Manager emphatically made the point that buying, servicing, replacing them after 4 or 5 years, and insuring  very expensive new trash trucks and hiring the drivers for them would be even more expensive then option 4, and would still raise the green box fees and tipping fees probably even higher then option 4 would.

Here’s your chance to work outdoors in the beautiful Mon Forest