Fayette County Board of Education members voted unanimously Monday evening to approve the first reading of a revision — with one caveat added to the revision itself — to the county’s Personnel File Confidentiality policy.

Thirteen community organizations in West Virginia are sharing $5,291,102 in grants under the Weatherization Assistance Program that hires technicians to install energy efficiency and conservation measures for low-income residents.

Fayette County has turned to the Raleigh County Solid Waste Authority for help with its dilapidated housing program.
At last week’s Fayette County Commission meeting, commissioners signed off on support of an agreement with the Raleigh County SWA to dispose of discarded materials from Fayette’s dilapidated building removal.

The youthfulness of a magistrate hopeful was one of the many topics of conversation at a candidate forum last Tuesday night.
But that candidate, 20-year-old Ben Love, says age is relative.

Fayette County Board of Education members voted unanimously last Tuesday evening to approve levy rates for the 2008-09 school year.
As Fayette County schools treasurer Annette Hughart pointed out, the levy rate is set by the state Legislature, while assessed property values are prepared by the Fayette County Assessor.

Convenience is the driving force behind the growing popularity of West Virginia’s “early voting” system that lets voters mark ballots in advance of the designated election day, say two southern West Virginia clerks.

Fayette County prosecutors presented 16 witnesses Monday and explained that they planned to call just one more Tuesday in the triple-murder trial of a Hico area man accused of gunning down three young men with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle last Memorial Day on the road in front of his home.

Fayetteville town officials have agreed to withdraw a request for annexation of a portion of W.Va. 16.
In March, the town applied to the Fayette County Commission for a minor boundary adjustment to cover the portion of the roadway that leads from the county seat west to The Ledges housing development, a gated community off Belmont Road which is already annexed into town boundaries.

Four whitewater rafting companies in Fayette County have joined together to create the state’s largest outfitter and the third-largest guided whitewater venture in the United States.