RONCEVERTE, W.Va. — The mayor of a Greenbrier County town is addressing why its city hall abruptly closed its doors to the public Friday.
Ronceverte Mayor Deena Pack addressed the reason on MetroNews Midday Monday after announcing Ronceverte City Hall would be closed down “due to current and ongoing safety concerns for City Hall staff” on Friday on the city’s Facebook page.
She said the decision to close city hall Friday came following comments made to social media that they felt were threatening in nature to city workers.
“In an effort to be proactive and out of an abundance of caution, we did decide to close City Hall while we were investigating the comments,” Pack said.
In her earlier Facebook post, she said the comments were made by a local individual.
As previously anticipated, city hall did reopen Monday, and Pack said they hope nothing more will come out of the situation.
“I think everything is better, the investigation is not fully completely, but we are comfortable with opening city hall again,” she said.
Pack said that she doesn’t want all of the good things happening in Ronceverte be overlooked by this one negative situation as Ronceverte is a peaceful place with a lot of opportunity.
“There’s a lot of opportunities for outdoor activity, the schools are very good in Greenbrier County, and we just have a lot of family and friends here as well,” Pack said.
Pack said there’s several new businesses that have been growing in the area recently such as a few new restaurants. She said they join Ronceverte community staples such as the town’s well-known hardware store Martin & Jones and Tri County Produce.
Additionally, Pack said there’s even more opportunity currently happening in the city beyond its outdoor recreation and business growth.
“You know, so there’s just a lot of variety of types of businesses downtown, but we also have a growing live music scene,” she said. “I think this is exciting and draws a lot of different types of people to the area.”
Pack was appointed as mayor in July 2021, and was recently re-elected this past June.