There has been a great deal of discourse throughout the Hancock County community and beyond since Monday night when board of education members voted on, and approved, the termination of the school system’s former director of finance, followed by the announcement that representatives of the West Virginia Department of Education and others had been in the county in recent weeks to go over the financial record because of incomplete information and other discrepancies.

Before the meeting was even over, the rumor mill had gone into overdrive, with questions, commentary, and a lot of accusations.

I won’t be going into detail on those latter aspects, because much of what I saw or heard that evening (and in the days since) could easily be considered slanderous or defamatory in nature. When you a

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