The Wood County Board of Education recognized the district’s personnel employees who helped get things ready for the first day of school over the summer at its regular meeting Tuesday night. This included those who helped mow over the summer, those that helped get the buildings ready by moving equipment around and those that worked in the office. The board also heard a proposal to move IT operations to the Caperton Campus at West Virginia University at Parkersburg and a safety update from Safety and Security Coordinator Jeremy Bell. Read more from Tuesday’s meeting online and in the Thursday edition of the News and Sentinel. (Photo by Douglass Huxley)