Still waiting for water
Photo by Jeffrey Saulton
Stillwell Road resident Dennis Jones, right, goes over a map of the Riser Ridge-Laurel Fork Water Extension with Shayne Roabham, center, assistant manager of the Claywood Park Public Service District, and Todd Grinstead, manager of the PSD.
DEERWALK — For more than a decade, residents in the Riser Ridge and Laurel Fork area have been waiting for word on when they will have a clean and reliable water supply.
During a meeting Thursday at Deerwalk Volunteer Fire Department, they learned it will take a while longer.
Erin Thacker, grant coordinator with the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council, said another grant proposal will be submitted for small cities block grant funding for the Wood County project. She said the grant will be submitted in June. From there it will go to the West Virginia Development Office and then to Gov. Joe Manchin.
The grant has a better chance this time because local officials are also trying to line up other funding for the project, Thacker said.
“We are close to getting a United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service loan and grant,” she said.
Clinton to stop in Ripley
RIPLEY — Former President Bill Clinton will stop in Ripley tonight to campaign for his wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
The “Solutions for America” event, featuring Bill Clinton, will take place at 7:30 p.m.
Local second-grader serves as mayor for day
WILLIAMSTOWN — Much like her grandfather who was the youngest serving mayor in the city of Cairo, 8-year-old Ivy Linger now bears the distinction of being one of the youngest mayors in the city of Williamstown, at least for one day.
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