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Apple season is [almost] here! Paden City Labor Day See B1-B3 Hillbilly 100 weekend See A10 See B4-B9 Still Free! Ohio news Inside Pages A6, A7, A9, B4, Adult Ed: Civics B5, B6, B7, B8, B9 INNformer Page A6 Volume 10, No. 18 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 September 8, 2023 Paden City Council raises pay for police By Charles Winslow PADEN CITY – With half of their police depart- ment departing for better paying jobs with other law enforcement agencies, Paden City Council met in special session Aug. 23 to discuss options. “In the span of 20 days I lost two people,” lamented Police Chief Anthony Lauer during a recent inter- view. With the loss of the two oiffcers, one with years of experience with Paden City, the department was reduced to just Chief Lauer and a single patrolman. At the special session, council unanimously voted, after a discussion, to raise the starting pay of oiffcers to $26 per hour, up 8 percent from the current $20 per hour rate. To offset the increased costs without raising the departments current budget, Lauer pro- posed leaving one of the two positions vacant. The new pay scale makes Paden City competitive with what both the Wetzel and Tyler county sheriff oiffces pay for certified police oiffcers. Lauer said during the followup interview he has already had Events in the some interest from current law enforcement oiffcers. He hopes to fill the vacant position in October. Mid-Ohio Valley run Paden City, as well as neighboring Sistersville, has faced increased diiffculties in recent years attracting and retaining new oiffcers due to the discrepancy in the gamut from water pay between the two cities and the county sheriff of- sports to agriculture fices and the state police. Both municipalities have gone through the expense of screening applicants and sending them to the West and harvest festivals, Virginia State Police Academy for certification, only to have them either wash out or quickly leave for bet- motor sports plus the ter paying departments. If a recruit leaves the acad- emy prior to graduation, and a majority of them do, then the departments lose the tuition and costs they oil and gas that fuels have to pay for the required psychological exams and polygraph tests. [See related editorial on A3.] it all! The Marietta To open the meeting, Mayor Steve Kastigar an- nounced the issue of consolidating schools within Sternwheel Regatta Wetzel County Schools district has been set aside, for now. He said a motion at a recent school board meet- runs Sept. 8-10 so you ing to begin the process had been made but died for lack of a second. “Its been kicked down the road for can still catch the re- two to three years,” he said at the council meeting. Referring to the towns ongoing water crisis, Kastigar said the city had flushed the system using 900,000 works. Check inside gallons of water once they discovered a bypass valve on the air-stripper had allowed contaminated water for photos from the into the system. Because of the PCE contamination, Paden City Paden City Labor Day Water Department customers have been under a “Do Not Use” order since Aug 16. and the Hillbilly 100 Due to the Labor Day holiday, the next regular meet- ing of the Paden City Council is Monday, Sept. 11, 3-day weekend. at 7 p.m. at the city building on Main Street. The public is encouraged to attend. Pleasants Power Station back in operation By Charles Winslow BELMONT – The boilers at the 43-year-old Pleas- ants Power Station, at Willow Island in Pleasants County, are back producing steam after a brief shut- down. The 1,278-megawatt coal-fueled power station was placed into a mouthballed status June 1 by Energy Harbor Generation LLC and its prospects looked dim. In January it was announced the plant had been leased to Texas-based Energy Transition and Envi- ronmental Management and the fear was the facility would eventually be demolished. California-based Omnis Fuel Technologies acquired the power station, which has since been renamed Quantum Pleasants, Aug. 5. The power plant is the first the company has purchased. “As I began visiting with the workforce of the Pleas- ants Power Station and learned how much the preservation of the plant meant to the people of Continued on page A7 INDEX Monroe Co. Farm Bureau A6 RECIPES: Apples! B1-B3 Area prep football A7 Puzzles B3 Sistersville icon removed A2 2023 Oil & Gas Festival slated A8 Hillbilly 100 B4-B9 Editorial: Police consolidation A3 Gib Wilson wrench-throwing A8 Results B6 Event calendar A9 Davenport wins 2nd career Hillbilly 100 B8 Comics A4-A5 Adult education: Civics A6 Paden City Labor Day A10 Crossword answer B8
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