Morgan County is closing schools and opening dollar stores.
That will be the focus of a rally at Berkeley Springs State Park on Wednesday January 13, 2015 at 5 pm at Berkeley Springs State Park in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Last month, the Morgan County School Board voted to close Greenwood Elementary Schools due to budget constraints.
More than 100 residents attended a three hour hearing about the closure.
In January 2015, more than 100 people attended a hearing at the Union Chapel United Methodist Church to express opposition to plans to build a Dollar General store in a rural residential neighborhood at the corners of 522 and Oakland Road.
Residents in the neighborhood have sued the Morgan County Planning Commission alleging that the Commission failed to give the residents due process in approving Dollar General’s plans for the site.
That case is now before the West Virginia Supreme Court.
Morgan County already has three dollar stores — a Dollar General in Paw Paw, a Dollar General and a Family Dollar in Berkeley Springs.
“Do we really want to be known as a community that closes schools and opens dollar stores?” asked Morgan County resident Russell Mokhiber. “Our country is headed in the wrong direction. Instead of strengthening American education and relying on US made goods, we’re closing schools and importing cheap stuff from China — and then putting Dollar General stores in our neighborhoods to sell it.”
The poster announcing the rally says — “close schools, open dollar stores” and “less quality American education and more cheap Chinese stuff.”