WV MetroNews
PRINCETON, W.Va. — Voters in both Mercer and Ritchie counties renewed school system excess levies in countywide elections held Saturday.
In Mercer County, voters renewed a five-year excess by a nearly two-to-one margin, 3,161 for the levy and 1,648 against. The excess levy provides the school system approximately $13 million a year.
Ritchie County voters renewed the county’s $5.8 million annual excess levy by a vote of 1,038 to 175.
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