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LCHS graduate among recipients of Byrd award

U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has presented area students with his Scholastic Recognition Award for their outstanding high school classroom achievements. Among the recipients is LCHS graduate Cody McCormick.
"The academic accomplishments of these young students make me very proud. They have earned these scholarships through hard work and determination, and I hope this recognition helps keep them on a lifetime path of learning," Byrd said. "Growing up in the coalfields in Southern West Virginia, my parents instilled in me a passion for learning that still burns inside me today, even at the age of 90. I would hope to inspire in some way a similar enthusiasm in others. A lifelong thirst for knowledge pays lifelong dividends.”
Statewide, 168 students will receive the Byrd award. The Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award program annually confers a $50 U.S. Savings Bond upon each valedictorian of the graduating classes of West Virginia’s public, parochial, and private high schools, and the Schools for the Deaf and Blind at Romney. Started in 1969, Byrd has awarded 10,339 West Virginia students more than $240,000 from the private trust fund that he established.
"I congratulate this year’s recipients,” Byrd said, “and encourage them to continue their pursuit of excellence."

St. Albans man arrested in Alkol

By RON GREGORY
Staff Writer
HAMLIN — A 33-year-old St. Albans man was being held in the Western Regional Jail at Barboursville after a drug arrest by officers from the Hamlin Detachment of the West Virginia State Police.
Joseph Scott Cooper of 240 Wythal Road, St. Albans was arrested by Senior Trooper N. W. Samples of the Hamlin Detachment on Thursday, August 28.
The arrest came after a 6 p.m. search for a fugitive from home confinement by Samples and Senior Trooper D.C. Brinegar.
The officers were given information that the fugitive was at Alkol. As they approached the house, the officers said they detected a strong odor of chemicals, according to the police report on file at the Lincoln County courthouse.
Upon approaching the house, the officers were met by Cooper, who was standing in the kitchen area with the door open, the report said.
The police officers observed what they believed was an operating clandestine drug lab, the report continued.
The area was secured and the officers performed a preliminary field test which confirmed the presence of methamphetamine, according to the report.
The officers then advised the defendant of his rights and recorded a statement. In the statement, Cooper admitted that he was producing illegal drugs, the report said. They also found finished product in a refrigerator at the residence, estimated to weigh one pound.
Cooper appeared before Lincoln County Magistrate Helen McCormick, who ordered him to the regional jail. He was charged with felony counts of operating or attempting to operate a clandestine drug lab and possession with intent to deliver.

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