Commissioners in Berkeley and Jefferson counties are saying no to a proposed high-voltage power line.

Commissioners in both counties say the line's proposed path would affect housing subdivisions, historical places, trespass on land protected by federally funded farmland protection programs and cross over a proposed elementary school.

The so-called PATH line is a joint venture of Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power.

The line would stretch 244 miles from St. Albans, near Charleston, to a Bedington substation near Martinsburg.

Commissioners say they will register their opposition with Gov. Joe Manchin and the state Public Service Commission.