MORGANTOWN — The color-coded County Alert System and School Alert System maps has a fifth color effective Tuesday: gold. Gov. Jim Justice introduced his idea to have gold fall between […]
Monongalia County
Justice proposes new gold color in county map, rethinking how WVU factors into Mon County COVID numbers
MORGANTOWN — A fifth color in the school re-entry map and a different way to factor WVU into Monongalia County were to among the topics of a 5 p.m. Monday […]
EMS merger is a ‘work in progress’
Forest Weyen has had a busy year. Hired in October 2019 as the executive director of a newly reformed Mon EMS — a merger of Mon EMS and WVU Hospitals’ […]
Commission asks for public’s patience
Monongalia County is in the red. COVID-19 numbers continue to climb. Schools have gone online and sports, outside of WVU, have been sidelined. People are frustrated. In response, members of […]
State COVID numbers get worse; Justice urges all to show their mettle
MORGANTOWN — It was all about the numbers Wednesday. West Virginia’s COVID numbers are turning steeply south and Gov. Jim Justice spent a good part of his briefing in coach […]
46 counties start school Tuesday, but not Mon; WVU cases counted in Mon’s red status, rejecting requests to exclude it
MORGANTOWN — After 179 days of closure, schools in 46 counties reopened on Tuesday, state Superintendent Clayton Burch announced during the day’s COVID-19 briefing from the Capitol. “We’ve said from […]
Monongalia County delegates oppose separating WVU COVID-19 statistics
MORGANTOWN — A letter from state lawmakers opposing any plan to separate WVU’s COVID-19 statistics from county data was delivered to Gov. Jim Justice on Friday, the same day the […]
County turning red as plan forms to request WVU data pulled from overall statistics
MORGANTOWN — Following an emergency work session on Wednesday, a plan is forming that would ask Governor Jim Justice to remove WVU’s COVID-19 statistics from the numbers used to determine […]
Mon County Commission remembers former Commissioner Bob Bell
MORGANTOWN — Sean Sikora was a bit nervous the first time he met Bob Bell. A Republican, Sikora was a political novice and a county commission candidate when a mutual […]
County hopes to fund I-79 project
Glenn Adrian proposed interchange idea to commission If you build it, they will come. Sure, the line originated with disembodied voices and ghosts playing baseball in a cornfield, but the […]
