Philippi

The move forced the Baptist university’s 625 students on the Philippi campus to scramble to enroll at colleges elsewhere.

Monday was the deadline for the university’s utilities to be shut off if a payment had not been made to the city of Philippi.

Its impact, and the connections between money and access to water, is illustrated by the Philippi Horticultural Area, just on the outskirts of Cape Town.

That doesn’t mean Philippi and his classmates inching their way up the 405 on Friday afternoon can’t stare wistfully out the windows of their bus, longing for what might have been.

When it closed because of the pandemic, she bought an aboveground pool for the cattle farm where she lives with her family in Philippi, W.Va.