McDowell County Board Schedules Two Public Meetings on 2026-27 Calendar

A Class II legal notice published by the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and syndicated via WVLegals announces that the McDowell County Board of Education will hold two public meetings to discuss the 2026-2027 school calendar. The notice gives the dates for these sessions: March 19," is the exact excerpt published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and carried on WVLegals, but the published text captured in the notice is incomplete and does not include meeting times, locations or a state designation.

The Bluefield Daily Telegraph and WVLegals operate in the West Virginia legal-notice region; McDowell County Schools in West Virginia maintains a district website with a Public Notices section and an SY25-26 Calendar listed in its navigation, but the excerpt of the WV site captured in the records does not reproduce the full Class II notice or attach dates and times to the meetings. The WV site carries the district tagline: "Doing what is best for students, no matter what."

Separately, McDowell County Schools in North Carolina posts an explicit board meeting schedule and Central Office contact details that match Marion, NC. The NC site states: "The McDowell County Board of Education meeting is typically held on the second Monday of each month at 6:00 PM unless otherwise noted. The meetings are held in the Board Room at the Central Office. 334 S. Main Street Marion NC 28752. The doors will open at 5:30 PM." Its published 2025-2026 meeting dates and times include March 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM and list other meetings such as July 14, 2025; August 11, 2025; and December 1, 2025 noted as "(1st Monday as required by Legislation for Board Re-organization)." The Marion Central Office phone is listed as (828) 652-4535 and the fax as (828) 659-2238.

Local coverage from The McDowell News, published from Marion with a P.O. Box listed as P.O. Box 968 Marion, NC 28603, includes reporting by Mike Conley. One item on that site confirms district operations details: "McDowell County Schools will operate on a two-hour delay on Friday for students." The McDowell News copyright block in the capture reads: © Copyright 2026 The McDowell News.

Key facts remain unresolved in the public captures: the full text of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph Class II notice, the complete list of meeting dates beyond the captured "March 19," entry, the meeting times and locations for those two calendar-discussion sessions, and an explicit statement naming whether the notice applies to McDowell County, West Virginia or another McDowell County. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph / WVLegals posting is the primary explicit source for the announcement that two public meetings have been scheduled to discuss the 2026-27 school calendar; McDowell County Schools (NC) supplies a separate, fully detailed 2025-26 board schedule tied to 334 S. Main Street, Marion, NC and the (828) 652-4535 contact line.

Until the full Class II legal notice text is retrieved from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph or WVLegals and cross-checked with the McDowell County Schools Public Notices page, residents who need precise times, locations or the ability to offer public comment should expect that additional details will be published with the full notice and calendar documents. The two public meetings named in the Class II notice are the official venues announced to consider adoption or discussion of the 2026-2027 school calendar.