A musician and athlete at Saint Joseph School served Oct. 24 as an honorary Berkeley County commissioner.
Eighth-grader Franklin Koons, 13, sat among the five commissioners, the county administrator and county office administrator as upcoming holiday events, a groundbreaking for a new water plant in Bunker Hill, W.Va., and the recent County Commissioners’ Association of West Virginia board meeting were discussed. He also listened as information about a WVU Medicine expansion project was shared that will close a “paper street” – one that exists only on paper – along Tennessee Avenue.
Koons told the commissioners and a small assembly of audience members that he runs cross-country and plays tennis at Saint Joseph School, where he also plays trumpet and piano.
While he has not set his sights on a specific vocation, Koons said he hopes to attend Saint James School in Hagerstown, Md.