Posted: May 11, 2018 | Source: Herald-Dispatch
HURRICANE, W.Va. – Herbert Hoover (28-0) stunned Hurricane 3-0 Thursday night in a high school softball regular-season game.
Posted: May 11, 2018 | Source: Herald-Dispatch
HURRICANE, W.Va. – Herbert Hoover (28-0) stunned Hurricane 3-0 Thursday night in a high school softball regular-season game.
By: Alexander Thomas | Posted: May 10, 2018 | Source: WCHS News Network
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Board of Education approved at its meeting Thursday a contract for the demolition of Herbert Hoover High School, but one organization that submitted a lower bid plans to protest the decision.
The approved bid was submitted by Rodney Loftis & Son Contracting for $382,777. FEMA will provide the state School Building Authority with the funding to complete the project, and the state agency accepts applications regarding work.
Herbert Hoover High School was damaged in the June 2016 flood. Students take lessons in portable classrooms installed on the property of Elkview Middle School.
Reclaim Company LLC submitted a bid for $339,000, but their bid was rejected for what in-house counsel Beth Lebow said was described as an “incomplete form” regarding subcontractors.
“Reclaim Company indicated in their bid documents that they would be self-performing the entire project, meaning no subcontractors would be used,” she said. “(The SBA is) claiming that Reclaim did not receive the contract because that form was incomplete, but we’re not using subcontractors.”
Lebow spoke before the school board prior to the vote about this concern, noting under state code the lowest bid must be approved. Board member Ryan White recommended amending the motion requiring the state School Building Authority to approve the matter, which the board approved.
White said after the meeting the authority is responsible for the project, and the board of education is solely responsible for approving the bid.
“I also don’t want to endanger the project from being completed, so that’s why I wanted to move it along,” he said. “If we don’t do what the SBA wants us to do, then we may not be able to get the demolition of Hoover done.”
Lebow said Reclaim Company will protest the bid “as soon as they award the bid.”
“It’s going to drag it out,” she said.
By: Ted McCoart, Morehead State Athletic Media Relations | Posted: May 10, 2018 | Source: MSU Eagles
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OXFORD, Ala. – The eighth-seeded Morehead State Softball team knocked off fourth-seeded Southeast Missouri 4-1 to avoid elimination and advance in the Ohio Valley Conference Championship Tournament on Thursday evening at Choccolocco Park. (more…)
Posted: May 9, 2018 | Source: WV Gazette-Mail
St. Albans scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to help the Red Dragons escape with a 7-6 home win over George Washington in a Class AAA baseball Class AAA Region 3 Section 1 elimination game Wednesday.
Rusty Bunner loads a voting machine into a rack after it was returned Tuesday evening at the Wood County Courthouse. The first precinct returned at 7:55 p.m. to the courthouse. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)
By: Jeff Baughan, Reporter | Posted: May 9, 2018 | Source: Parkersburg News and Sentinel
PARKERSBURG — Vienna City Council member and Parkersburg attorney Jim Leach will face Republican incumbent Michael Azinger in the West Virginia Senate District 3 race in November. (more…)
By: Joe Severino and Douglas Soule, Staff Writers | Posted: May 9, 2018 | Source: WV Gazette-Mail
Below are the results of some county-level races in Central and Southern West Virginia.
Chris Dorst | Gazette-Mail file photo
By: Rick Steelhammer, Staff Writer | Posted: May 9, 2018 | Source: WV Gazette-Mail
A Monday morning canvass of Tuesday’s primary election voting results in Kanawha County could change the outcome of several state, county and city races.
By: Jeff Jenkins | Posted: May 9, 2018 at 4:33 p.m. | Source: WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There are some political newcomers who have advanced to the November General Election in state Senate races including a 30-year pastor and a community and economic development professional.
Rollan Roberts
Dr. Rollan Roberts defeated Raleigh County Senator Lynne Arvon in Tuesday’s Republican primary in the 9th Senatorial District. Roberts is the longtime pastor at Victory Baptist Church in Beaver. He placed his name in the running when Gov. Jim Justice was looking for a quick replacement for now former Senator Jeff Mullins at the beginning of the last legislative session. Arvon was appointed. Roberts then decided to run against her.
He was successful Tuesday in the three counties that make up the district, Raleigh, Wyoming and McDowell counties. It was close. He won by less than 400 votes but Roberts said he didn’t have to fight name recognition problems.
“I’m a different kind of candidate. I’m not having to tell people who I am. I’ve been here for 30 years at Victory (Baptist Church), running the Christian school and our Christian school serves about four counties every year,” he said.
Terrell Ellis
Terrell Ellis, owner of Terrell Ellis and Associates, is a single mother of four grown children who has been active in Kanawha Valley communities for years but has never run for political office. She finished in first place in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the 17th Senatorial District over two other candidates, including Mary Ann Claytor who won a statewide primary two years ago.
Ellis told MetroNews Wednesday her community involvement over the years was a good building block for her campaign.
“Being from South Hills (Charleston), which is a real strong neighborhood in the district, certainly was very helpful. But I’ve also worked a lot in the Clendenin area, I’m known in South Charleston for some of the economic development work I’m doing and I’m known in the Upper Kanawha Valley,” Ellis said.
Ellis also had a good ground game. She and her volunteers knocked on nearly 8,000 doors in the district.
Del. Bill Hamilton
Longtime Delegate Bill Hamilton won every county in the 11th Senatorial District GOP primary against incumbent Senator Robert Karnes. Karnes called the impact of the teachers strike a bump in the road, Hamilton said.
“I knew better because they were still active in my campaign and they will continue to do so in the fall,” Hamilton said Wednesday on MetroNews “Talkline.”
Hamilton said Karnes went negative two weeks before the election and it wasn’t received well.
“They tainted me as a liberal,” Hamilton said. “You know, if I was liberal I might have won Upshur County one time but the second time I ran they would have booted me out.”
Hamilton has a strong rating from both labor and business which he said gives him broad support. He’ll face Pocahontas County attorney Laura Finch, a Democrat, in the fall election.
Ellis considers herself a moderate Democrat.
“I happen to be pro-economic development, I’m pro-business,” she said. “I just happen to think you can do all of that without affecting working families.”
She’ll face 17th District Senator Tom Takubo, R-Kanawha, in the fall. Ellis said she’ll begin knocking on doors again in a few days.
Roberts’ fall opponent is former state senator, former delegate Bill Wooton, a Democrat from Raleigh County. Roberts said they know each other.
“We are really on different ends of the spectrum–so people will have a distinct choice to make when it comes to Nov. 6,” he said.
Seventeen of the Senate’s 34 seats will be up for election and there will be challenged races in each one.
The award-winning native of Pratt, W.Va, took over as head of the news division of MetroNews in August 2000. Jeff can be reached at jjenkins@wvradio.com and Twitter @JeffJenkinsMN.