MORGANTOWN – “This is the journey we’re on,” Monongalia County Health Department Executive Director Anthony DeFelice said of MCHD’s sustained effort to achieve accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board. […]
Author: Ben Conley/ The Dominion Post
Money moves: City seeks increased return through pooled account
MORGANTOWN – Morgantown City Council has authorized Finance Director Jon Furgison to begin moving the city’s cash reserves out of private banking institutions and into the West Virginia Board of […]
Anderson Excavating to clear 75 miles of roads through pilot program
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia Division of Highways District 4 Manager Earl Gaskins said Anderson Excavating is gearing up to begin clearing about 75 miles of Monongalia County roads this winter. […]
Morgantown pushing 2025 paving program to spring 2026
MORGANTOWN – In late July, Morgantown Staff Engineer Drew Gatlin conceded the city was “slightly behind” schedule in terms of its 2025 paving plan, but remained in position to get […]
Health Right needle exchange program passes 10-year anniversary
MORGANTOWN – Between October 2024 and September 2025, Milan Puskar Health Right’s harm reduction program, LIGHT (Living in Good Health Together), distributed 235,435 syringes. Over that same stretch, the program […]
MPO directs funding for ‘failing’ Point Marion Road intersection
MORGANTOWN – As part of its most recent update to the area’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan, the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board removed improvements to the five-legged intersection of […]
MCHD weighs role in rural health funding
BConley@DominionPost.comMORGANTOWN – With at least $500 million in anticipated federal funding coming to West Virginia between fiscal years 2026 and 2030 for the purpose of improving rural health care, Monongalia […]
Grumbein’s Island closure a priority of updated transportation plan
MORGANTOWN – The body that steers transportation planning for the greater Morgantown area has updated its long-range vision for vehicle and pedestrian mobility. During its most recent meeting, the Morgantown […]
Temporary lights at I-79 Exit 155 have September 2026 completion date
MORGANTOWN – At one point in time, it was hoped temporary traffic lights would be in place at I-79’s Exit 155 ramps sometime in 2024. That goal was eventually adjusted, […]
Biafora sues Butcher claiming defamation and slander
MORGANTOWN – Developer David Biafora is suing Brian Butcher for $257,434.07 claiming Butcher, the city’s deputy mayor and Morgantown City Council’s 7th Ward representative, “made purposefully defamatory and slanderous statements […]
