Cabell County excess levy

Cabell County library, Huntington parks district file lawsuit over funding cuts 

BY: - September 15, 2023

Weeks after the Cabell County school board voted to move forward with a plan to slash funding to local libraries and parks, two agencies filed a lawsuit against the board this week. The Cabell County Public Library and the Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District filed their complaint Thursday in Cabell County Circuit Court.  Facing […]

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No libraries? No parks? No levy for the Cabell County Board of Education

BY: - August 10, 2023

It’s been 17 years since I first moved to Cabell County from Kanawha County; by next year, I will have lived in Huntington longer than I lived in Charleston, the city of my birth and childhood. Huntington is now the city that I identify as my true hometown.  So what kept me here? Like most […]

Cabell school board moves forward with plan to slash funding for libraries, parks 

BY: - August 1, 2023

Facing a multi-million dollar funding shortage, the Cabell County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to go forward with a proposed levy plan that would drastically reduce funding to its local libraries and parks.  A packed house listened as school leaders described how they had got into the budget shortfall, which was largely due to a […]