🌱 Ripley High athletic director faces felony charges involving student

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• Ripley High athletic director faces felony charges involving student
• Meet the Vietnam veteran who guided Ripley’s future farmers

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 70 and low of 49 degrees.
• Thursday: Cloudy with showers; cooler, temps: high: 53, low: 38.
• Friday: Cloudy, showers around; cold, with a high of 44 and low of 33 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Ripley High trainer and AD arrested for sexual misconduct with student (newsandsentinel.com) — Ripley High School athletic director and trainer Steven Lough faces four felony charges involving alleged sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old student, according to the Jackson County sheriff. School officials say he no longer works for the district, and investigators encourage anyone else who believes they were victimized to contact the sheriff’s department.
   

• Local veteran reflects on service, career, and family (wvnews.com) — Before spending 18 years advising Ripley’s Future Farmers of America students, Oscar Harris survived combat wounds in Vietnam and earned the Silver Star for valor. The Frozen Camp veteran reflects on the financial pressures that led him into military service and the teaching career and family life he built afterward in Jackson County.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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• Church and Southern are this week's Graham-Simon/ WV News Athletes of the Week (wvnews.com)

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• Nominations sought for Roane County Folk Festival Belle (wvnews.com)
• Old man winter takes a shot across our bow (wowktv.com)

Winfield

• 2026 West Virginia High School Football Top 25 Rankings - Nov. 10 (on3.com)

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