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By Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner In a special meeting on July 23, the Hardy County Commission voted to seek a federal grant to purchase new voting equipment. The matching grant, if awarded, would pay for 50% of the $194,213.50 cost for the new system, according to County Clerk Greg Ely. ElyContinue Reading

Elmer Rodriguez Mundo, 30, of Harrisonburg, Va. was arrested this week for a series of burglaries in Rockingham and Hardy Counties. These crimes occurred at night on July 5 and 6 and include multiple break-ins at Baker and Mathias area businesses, including The Corner Mart, Capon Valley Bank, Dollar General,Continue Reading

By Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner For the Hardy County Board of Education, change was in the air at its meeting July 6 with lots of “new” on the agenda: a new fiscal year, with new members to be added and new officers to be selected; a new contract to be approvedContinue Reading

By Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner For the Hardy County Emergency Ambulance Authority, their July meeting was the first of the new fiscal year but was not much different than others, with concerns about facilities, equipment, and service call volumes. They did, however, elect their officers for 2020-2021 fiscal year, but keptContinue Reading

By Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner “I’m worried. I’m not going to lie to you. People in Hardy County are just not taking [COVID 19 virus] seriously,” County Health Administrator William Ours told the County Commission at its monthly meeting last Tuesday, July 7. “I’m just convinced we’re going to have aContinue Reading

Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner Top of mind at its July meeting for the Hardy County Planning Commission was a review of the actions taken that morning by the County Commissioners concerning enactment of an updated County Floodplain ordinance. As part of their morning meeting, the County Commission held its first publicContinue Reading

Photo by Lon Anderson The former Mathias Store, which was severely damaged by fire in December of 2016, was finally razed recently. The West Virginia Division of Highways completed the demolition and removal. The structure served the Mathias community for decades as a general store, a restaurant and finally asContinue Reading

An incident on Trough Road occurred at approximately 11 p.m on Friday night, June 26. Hardy County 911 received a call that there had been a shooting at the Strawderman residence and law enforcement units quickly responded. An investigation was conducted by the Hardy County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance fromContinue Reading

On Thursday, June 25, West Virginia State Troopers were conducting a highway safety operation on Route 48 near Luxemburg Road in Hardy County. They observed a black BMW 335i traveling eastbound in excess of 100 miles per hour in an active construction zone while workers were present. The driver ofContinue Reading

By Lon AndersonMoorefield Examiner Citizens living near the 20-poultry house development now underway in Old Fields turned out in force at the June meeting of the Hardy County Planning Commission to ask questions and get answers. As it turned out, they had more questions than the Commission had answers. MeetingContinue Reading

As of Monday, June 29, the Hardy County Health Department and Hardy County Office of Emergency Management has one additional confirmed case and one probable case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hardy County, with a total confirmed case count of 42. There is currently one patient in quarantine at home,Continue Reading

By Jean A. Flanagan Moorefield Examiner In the wake of an international pandemic, the postponed 2020 Primary Election garnered few surprises in Hardy County.  It was no surprise that only 40 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. Voter turnout is notoriously low in primary elections. It was no surpriseContinue Reading

According to the Hardy County Health Department, a total of 541 people in Hardy, Grant and Hampshire counties were tested for COVID-19 on Saturday, June 13. E. A. Hawse Medical Center established testing sites in Mathias, Baker, Moorefield, Petersburg and Romney. The number of tests are as follows:Hardy – 231RomneyContinue Reading

All precincts reporting County CommissionRepublicanTyler Bradfield 628Steve Schetrom 817 DemocratGreg Greenwalt 1,252 Attorney GeneralIsaac Sponaugle 1,396Sam Petsonk 169 House of Delegates 55DemocratJarod Shockey 1,460 (1,004 Hardy, 456 Pendleton)BJ Rinard 735 (508 Hardy, 227) RepublicanBryan Ward 1,285 LevyFor 1,224Against 1,982 Board of Education (Top 2 elected)Janet Rose 1,676Nancy Hahn 1,721Jerry YatesContinue Reading

By Dee-Ann Durbin and Colleen SlevinAssociated Press (AP) – The CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride is one of four current and former chicken company executives indicted Wednesday on charges of price-fixing. The U.S. Department of Justice said a federal grand jury in Colorado found that executives from Greeley, Colorado-based Pilgrim’s PrideContinue Reading

Brandin Carr, 32, of Elkins, was arrested in Princeton on Tuesday, May 19, in connection with the armed robbery of the Moorefield CVS Pharmacy.  On Aug. 17, 2019, a suspect entered the CVS store in Moorefield and took a large quantity of prescription drugs and $400 in cash at gunpoint.Continue Reading

The following voting precincts will be combined for the June 9 Primary Election: • Precinct 2 located at the Wardensville Visitors Center is being combined with Precinct 1, located at the War Memorial Building, 190 East Main St., Wardensville WV 26851. All Voters whose voting Precinct is at Precinct 2,Continue Reading