Scheduled from 6-8 p.m., the meeting will afford citizens an opportunity to ask questions and state their opinions on the proposal. Highways personnel will be present to discuss the abandonment and receive public input.
Those wishing to file written comments may send them to Commissioner, West Virginia Division of Highways, Capitol Complex Building 5, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, West Virginia, 25305-0430 on or before June 17.
In other DOH news:
A portion of Corridor G was recently renamed "Sgt Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway" in memory of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy who died while on duty.
Sgt. Thompson was killed in an automobile accident on Corridor G, when his patrol car was involved in a single-vehicle crash shortly after he assisted other deputies in the Alum Creek area.
Sgt. Thompson had served in the U.S. military in the War on Terrorism and had been employed by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department for five years.
Sgt. Thompson is survived by his parents, Delores and Roger Thompson of Harts.
People are trying to make this mountain a Federal Monument and then into a Federal Park. And the State is going to abandon the only public road to this historic site.
Sounds like the coal industry has something to do with it.