WINFIELD – Employees of the Putnam County Circuit Clerk’s office now are playing the waiting game after taking their pay grievance to the county commission. The three Putnam County Commissioners met in executive session Tuesday morning after their regularly scheduled meeting to listen to the grievance that was filed last month. “Deny at this time, but we’ll do further research for our next budget hearing,” Commissioner Steve Andes said when the meeting was opened back to the public.
WINFIELD – Employees of the Putnam Circuit Clerk’s office have filed a grievance with the County Commission, claiming they have been neglected and mistreated financially. The employees filed the grievance Aug. 3, days after reviewing the minutes from a Putnam County Commission meeting in which employees of the County Clerk’s office were given raises. “Within the minutes, it states the County Clerk has hired a new full time employee with a starting pay at $11.19 an hour,” the grievance states.
By KYLA ASBURY WINFIELD – A Hurricane man is suing Putnam County Commission after he claims he was injured at the Waves of Fun water park. Putnam County Parks and Recreation Commission was also named as a defendant in the suit. On June 14, 2013, Eric Daniel Blackburn was a participant in the defendants' Waves of Fun water park and water slide amusement attraction, according to a complaint filed May 22 in Putnam Circuit Court. Blackburn claims there were three water slides open to the public
Benjamin CHARLESTON - West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin, in a separate opinion released last week, says he disagrees with a majority ruling in November that a redistricting plan for the state House of Delegates is constitutional.
McHugh CHARLESTON - The state Supreme Court of Appeals has released a full opinion on its November decision to not change recently redrawn House of Delegates and state Senate districts.
Tennant CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Secretary of State's Office on Monday filed its responses to three of the five challenges to the state's new legislative redistricting plan.
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in an order Wednesday, said oral arguments over the new House of Delegates and Senate redistricting plans will be held next week.
Thompson CHARLESTON -- The two counties suing over a new House of Delegates redistricting plan say they object to House Speaker Rick Thompson's request to intervene.
Thompson CHARLESTON -- West Virginia House Speaker Rick Thompson has asked to intervene in a lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court arguing that a new House of Delegates redistricting plan is unconstitutional.
Tennant CHARLESTON -- Mason and Putnam counties, in a lawsuit filed in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals last week, say the state Legislature failed to consider "the community interests of the people" in approving a House of Delegates redistricting plan.
