radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 07-31-26

Good morning.A federal judge has given U.S. Senator Jim Justice’s family another deadline extension as they scramble to finalize a five-hundred-million-dollar deal to save the historic Greenbrier Resort. Creditors holding nearly four hundred million dollars in debt are asking the court to appoint a receiver to take over operations, but the judge granted a final grace period through mid-August to close the financing.In local education news, Wood County Schools is considering hiring contracted teachers to fill seven critical autism education vacancies. Special education officials report a surge in qualified students requiring individualized support, forcing the board to explore outside staffing agencies to ensure certified teachers are in classrooms.And the district is rolling out a new standardized emergency response protocol. Following confusion during a recent shooting near Gihon Elementary, school security will adopt standardized terms like "secure" for outside threats and "lockdown" for internal ones.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.