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The Grant County Grand Jury returned eight indictment earlier this month, including two separate filings against the same person.
Renee Rose Jones, 41, of 3 Virginia Ave., Petersburg, was indicted on two separate incidents for arranging the sale of methamphertamine and opioids. Both charges claim Jones helped to organize the purchases and were conducted with the assistance of other people.

After more than a year, the Grant County Senior Center is open once again and providing in-person nutrition services to seniors in the community.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the center was unable to provide its traditional social meals, which are available for free to seniors 60 years old or older.

Joshua Allen Hinkle, of Cabins, has admitted in a federal court to a distributing more than 40 grams of fentanyl.
 Hinkle, 36, pleaded guilty last week to one count of conspiracy to distribute at least 40 grams of fentanyl. Hinkle admitted to working with others to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl in April 2020 in Grant County and elsewhere.

The Grant County CEOS sponsored Karen Brown Kitzmiller as the 2021 Belle at the West Virginia Folk Festival in Glenville on June 18-20.
Kitzmiller has been a CEOS member for almost 50 years and is a member of the Jordan Run CEOS club. She is a 1965 graduate of Petersburg High School and, in 1972, she was employed at Petersburg Motor Company until 2000. She then became employed at the Grant County Bank until 2007.

The Grant Rehabilitation and Care Center (GRCC) has welcomed a new director, who is already filling the position at the facility. Trevor Harman, originally from Grant County, accepted the role earlier this year after the resignation of the previous director.
Harman, who graduated from Petersburg High School in 2014, has a background in respiratory therapy with a degree from Allegany College of Maryland. He then continued his education with a master’s degree in healthcare administration at Fairmont State.

With just over a week left in the month, the Grant County Health Department has reported 17 new cases of Covid-19 in June.

This number is down drastically from previous months, including more than 40 new case  in May and more than 50 in April. As of the last report, the county currently has only three active cases of Covid-19.

This makes the overall Covid cases for Grant County, 1,445 (1,177 are confirmed positives and 268 are probable). Of these, 1,411 have recovered and the county has reported 27 deaths listed as Covid related.

Free testing is still being offered and the health department is urging everyone to consider being vaccinated against the illness.

The June meeting of the Grant County Board of Education marked a set of bittersweet changes for the county, including superintendent Doug Lambert officially retiring and passing the position to longtime educator and administrator, Mitch Webster.