Charles and Terry Finley
Husband, wife arrested for meth lab
By DIANE POTTORFF
Staff Writer
PRICHARD – What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a husband and wife from Prichard going to jail.
Charles Lee Finley, 45, and Terri Ann Finley, 50, were charged with operating a clandestine laboratory, possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver, felony conspiracy, possession of pseudoephederine in altered state. Charles Finley was also charged with a felon in possession of a firearm while Terri Finley has a second count of possession with intent to deliver.
Both appeared before Wayne County Magistrate Teddy Mays for arraignment. Mays set their bond at $150,000 each.
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The shaded area to the top of the photo is where the BOE could possibly put a new Kenova Elementary School. The BOE will be acquiring the 2.487 acres through a deed exchange with the City of Kenova. Currently the Wonderdome Gymnasium, the Wonderdome Playground, the former high school building and the C-K Alumni Band Building is located within the parameter
Kenova Council passes resolution to exchange school properties
By MICHAEL HUPP
Staff Reporter
KENOVA – The Kenova City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution to exchange two closed school properties within the city limits despite controversy and questions surrounding removal of real property from the elementary site.
The vote was taken during an emergency council meeting Tuesday night after a letter was received by the council from the Wayne County Board of Education counsel David Lycins, urging the city to pass a resolution to exchange the properties. Kenova Attorney Ryan Turner explained to council the passing of the resolution is just “standard procedure” in accord with state code since the properties are being exchanged to a government entity and do not require publishing of the exchange, bids taken, or fair market value given to the property.
The two properties are the old Ceredo Kenova High School building owned by Kenova and the old elementary school building owned by the Wayne County Board of Education. An agreement to exchange the properties was approved by the BOE and the city last June shortly after the elementary school was closed due to a sinkhole on the property.
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KVFD receives FEMA grant for hose upgrades
Staff report
KENOVA – The Kenova Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded a $68,210 grant to upgrade the agency’s three fire trucks.
The funds, from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, was awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The grant is to be used for the purchase of new hoses and nozzles for the 40-member department’s three trucks. “We can replace all our four-inch hoses on all three trucks,” Chief Tim Bias said Friday. “We have 1,000 feet of hose in ten-foot sections on each of the trucks.
“And it will replace all the two and three-quarter inch hoses and the one and three-quarter hoses on all the trucks,” he said. Each of the three vehicles has approximately 300 of the two-inch plus and 400 feet of the one inch-plus lines.
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School Board to meet at BMS
By DIANE POTTORFF
Staff Writer
WAYNE – The Wayne County Board of Education will be meeting at Buffalo Middle School Tuesday in conjunction with the school’s open house.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Agenda items include approval for the purchase of a camera system from Pro-Vision in the amount of $12,050; for the low bid of $17,900 from Scott Wheeler Development LLC to remove and replace the shingles on the band building roof of Wayne High School; and the adoption of the Creative Curriculum from the state-approved list for Wayne County Pre-KG for the schools years beginning 2012-13 through 2019-20.
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Fire chiefs voice concerns over workers’ comp
By DIANE POTTORFF
Staff Writer
WAYNE – Several of the Wayne County volunteer fire department chiefs approached the county commission Thursday to voice their concern about workers’ compensation insurance.
Dave Caudill, spokesman for the chiefs, said that much of their workers’ compensation costs is coming from the emergency medical services side of the department.
“When Brickstreet cancelled the volunteer fire department’s workers’ comp, the Legislature had passed a law that the fire service would receive some reimbursement,” Caudill said. “But, the law excluded the department that has paid EMS.”
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