JOSELYN KING Staff Writer
WHEELING Ohio County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a prevention resource officer contract between the county and Ohio County Schools but with an added twist they see as beneficial to the school district.
Commission President Randy Wharton asked that commissioners include an amendment to the agreement that would give school district officials the right to interview new county-provided PROs before they are assigned to a school.
Commissioner Zach Abraham said he had requested such authority for the school district when he served as board of education president.
“I think that’s something they should have, unless someone thinks they would object to it,” Commissioner Don Nickerson said.
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Ohio County Schools will spend almont $600,000 on turf for a new multi-use athletic field at Wheeling Park High School.
The new field will be placed to the left of the baseball field, and not in “The Pit” over the hill from the field as was originally proposed.
Board of education members unanimously approved the turf purchase this week.
Ohio County Schools will pay the Astro Turf company $588,581. This amount includes the base price of the turf at $568,783, as well as an upgrade to a better fiber turf that increased the cost by $19,789, according to Assistant Superintendent Rick Jones.
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Ohio County Board of Education member Grace Norton returns to the board office Monday night following a bout with COVID-19.
WHEELING The Ohio County Board of Education Monday night approved a contract to keep county-provided prevention resource officers in school buildings through the end of this school year.
The agreement achieved is expected to result in reducing the overall number of county-provided PROs from six to five, while eventually eliminating the PRO from Middle Creek Elementary School, Board of Education President David Croft explained.
The school district also has plans to reduce the overall number of deputies serving as PROs in the coming years, while hiring more from the city of Wheeling at a cheaper cost, he said.
Feb 7, 2021
Just as high school students in Marshall and Wetzel counties were preparing to return to school next week, the map struck again.
Marshall County had put forth its return to school plan last week that would have students at John Marshall High School and Cameron High School back in the classroom. Now, though, with both counties in red on Saturday’s West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resorces’ COVID-19 map, that leaves the planned return to school up to how the map looks on Sunday.
If both counties remain red Sunday, then high school students won’t be in school Monday. If the counties are orange or lower, then the plan as of this past week was for classes to resume.
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Even during a more than four-week stay at Wheeling Hospital, Ohio County Board of Education member Grace Norton, seen here at a school board meeting last year, participates in meetings via phone.
WHEELING Ohio County Board of Education member Grace Norton hasn’t let anything bar her from having her voice heard at board meetings. When the group met this past week, Norton was not in person at the board office, but she was patched in via phone from the intensive care unit at Wheeling Hospital.
Norton, 77, has been hospitalized for more than four weeks, first with COVID-19 and bilateral pneumonia, and now with related symptoms. On Thursday, she was moved from the ICU and was expected to be released soon. But her illness hasn’t kept her from keeping up with her elected job on the school board, or the news of the world from her hospital bed.