This article is primarily
for the benefit of those Monongah High alumni who do not live in West Virginia
and don’t have access to the Fairmont Times.
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| Roman Prezioso keeps job through 24th year |
Incumbent Roman Prezioso, Class of
1967, who lives in Fairmont with wife Deborah, kept his 13th Senate District seat in the West Virginia
Legislature for another 4 years. He’s been there for 20 years. Roman got 59% of the vote against
Republican challenger Barry Bledsoe.
Roman has been in the State Senate since 1996 after
serving in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1988
to 1996.
Roman’s parents, Amelia Ann Yerace Prezioso and Roman
Prezioso, Sr., ran Prezioso Grocery at the top of Jackson Street hill for
decades, including during my 1940s and 1950s childhood and early adulthood in
Monongah.
Roman’s sister, Marie Prezioso, lives in Charleston.
In the 50th District for State House of Delegates, White Hall Mayor Guy
Ward, who was in the 2016 Monongahfest parade after White Hall donated the
first seven Christmas street lights to Monongah, beat incumbent Democrat Tim
Manchin, who held the seat for 13 years.
Manchin, who lives
in Fairmont with wife Susan and son Joe Manchin, was appointed to the seat held by his uncle,
A. James Manchin, after Jimmy passed away.
Tim’s parents are Ann and Joe Manchin II. Another uncle, John Manchin, and a grandfather, Joe
Manchin I, served as mayors of Farmington. Joe Manchin III, U.S.
Senator and former West Virginia governor, is Tim's cousin.
Mike Caputo and Linda Longstreth, a 1969 Mannnington High graduate, will
remain in the House of Delegates.
Democratic incumbent Randy Elliott, a 1970 Mannington grad, got 57% of the
vote for Marion County Commissioners.
Fairmont City Council seats went to incumbent Frank Yann, Brad Merrifield, Dora
Grubb and incumbent Phil Mason.
Sunday hunting got 65% approval. The Brunch Bill, which moves the
serving of alcohol in restaurants on Sundays from 1 p.m. to an earlier 10 a.m., passed
with 54%.
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