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Episode: West Virginia school will remain open for now amid toxic groundwater fears
Description: A small West Virginia school will remain open for now after a court temporarily blocked an effort to relocate classes due to the townβs contaminated groundwater being added to a national cleanup priority list.
Last June, Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra R. Porter announced that students, faculty and staff at Paden City High School would be relocated to existing schools in nearby New Martinsville when classes resume this month.
However, attorneys representing a group of those students, faculty and staff filed a petition seeking to block the move, according to news outlets. The petition argued that the federal government di...