Sandy McDonald is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for Jefferson County Clerk, to serve a 6 year term. Read the Full Story >>
Government
2022 Election – Circuit Court Clerk
Democratic candidate Laura Storm and Republican candidate Tina Renner are running for Circuit Court Clerk in Jefferson County. Read the Full Story >>
Laura Storm – 2022 Circuit Clerk Candidate
Laura Storm is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for Jefferson County Circuit Clerk, to serve a 6 year term. Read the Full Story >>
Tina Renner – 2022 Circuit Clerk Candidate
Laura Storm is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for Jefferson County Circuit Clerk, to serve a 6 year term. Read the Full Story >>
2022 Election – West Virginia Delegate District 99
Republican candidate Paul Espinosa running for re-election to West Virginia's House of Delegates in District 98. Read the Full Story >>
Paul Espinosa – 2022 WV Delegate District 98 Candidate
Meet Paul Espinosa, the Republican Party candidate running in West Virginia's Delegate District 98 in the 2022 election. Read the Full Story >>
Conversations About Local Growth
Share your thoughts and concerns on local growth with theStubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications at Shepherd University. Read the Full Story >>
Face to Face for Democracy
The norm we’ve come to expect, enshrined in laws, is for meetings of local government commissions, councils and committees to be open to the public with opportunities for comment. It can be tiring for the folks sitting at the official table to listen, and sometimes it gets a little heated, but as has been said about other activities, if it’s too quiet, you’re not doing it right. Read the Full Story >>
Jefferson County Candidates – May 10 2022 Election
The May 10 election combines a final election for School Board and primary elections for Congress, WV Senate, WV Delegate & County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
Ambulance Proposal Raises Alarms — Inside the Fitch EMS Report
Consultants' study recommends reductions in ambulance service, accuracy of data questioned. County Commission eager to proceed, citizens raise multiple concerns. Read the Full Story >>
Ambulance Response Times Explained
The report from Fitch & Associates recommends the adoption of standards from CFAI (Commission on Fire Accreditation International). Following the “rural” standards, the report indicates that the "goal time" for EMS unit response (turnout + travel) would be 15 minutes (the "benchmark"). The same standard also indicates an acceptable time of 19 minutes, 42 seconds. Read the Full Story >>
School Board — How It Works, Why It Matters
Voters will elect 3 candidates to the Jefferson County Board of Education this year. Read more about how the School Board works. Read the Full Story >>
Meet the 2022 Candidates — Board of Education, Jefferson County
Voters will elect 3 candidates to the Jefferson County Board of Education this year. Read what the candidates are saying. Read the Full Story >>
A Timeline of the Fitch EMS Report
Fitch & Associates is a consulting firm with many years of experience in assisting local governments in evaluating and improving both fire and emergency medical services. The County Commission contracted with Fitch in May of 2021 for a very limited review of the county’s EMS system — a basic analysis of ambulance response data. There Read the Full Story >>
County Commission & School Board Need Candidates
While the congressional and state elections next November will likely attract a lot of attention, there will be plenty of county and municipal offices on the ballot next year too — these are the local officials who can really affect what happens close to home in Jefferson County. Read the Full Story >>