Public Meeting Set to Discuss Future of Local Schools: Feb 7, 2018 6:30PM

A much anticipated public meeting has been scheduled by the Kanawha County Board of Education to discuss the status of Clendenin Elementary School and Herbert Hoover High School.

This public meeting will be held at the Clendenin Volunteer Fire Department on February 7, 2018 at 6:30pm, and there will be a question & answer session.

Many in the Clendenin and Elk River Valley areas have expressed ongoing concerns about the relocation and rebuilding of these schools. This will be a very important meeting and everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.

Hoover show choir to stage ‘Party with the Addams’ dinner theater

By: Clint Thomas, Metro staff | Posted: Jan. 4, 2018 | Source: WV Gazette-Mail Kanawha Metro

Herbert Hoover High School’s High Impact show choir will introduce its 2018 competition repetoire in a mysterious and spooky, but altogether fun and appetizing manner.

High Impact will present “Party with the Addams,” a dinner theater paying tribute, in song and dance, to the Addams Family of television and motion picture lore.

“Party with the Addams” will be presented on Saturday, Jan. 20, and Sunday, Jan. 21, at Elkview Middle School, 5090 Elk River Road, Elkview.

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West Virginia school hit by flood getting band equipment

By: Tyler Barker | Posted: Nov. 7, 2017, 9:34 am | Source: WOAY TV

CLENDENIN, W.Va. (AP) — Another West Virginia school that was destroyed by severe flooding last year is receiving musical instruments for its band.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the nonprofit group Music Rising is giving $64,000 in band instruments to Herbert Hoover High School in Clendenin. The school lost its instruments in the June 2016 floods and borrowed instruments after that from a nearby middle school.

Studio City, California-based nonprofit The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation selects schools and administers the grant program for Music Rising. (more…)