KINGWOOD — Preston County Commissioners were updated Tuesday on how election night proceedings will be handled. “All general election results will be at the [Kingwood] Plaza; they will not be […]
Local Government
Owner of possible dispensary seeks business rezoning
Building now R1, discussion to shift to B1 KINGWOOD — Kingwood hopes to work out a way to follow its zoning ordinance and still allow a medical cannabis dispensary to […]
Marsh: Masks equal vaccine
Face coverings can spare lives as COVID ramps up Dr. Clay Marsh and Don Knotts might seem like an unlikely pairing at first glance. Gov. Jim Justice, though, cast the […]
West Virginia Can’t Wait outlines plan
Promises to fight for discrimination protections If candidates endorsed by West Virginia Can’t Wait win the upcoming election, they’ll fight for stronger discrimination protections in the state. That was the […]
Kingwood discusses possible water rate increase
KINGWOOD — A proposed rate increase was the main topic of discussion at Tuesday’s Kingwood Water Board meeting. The proposed amount of the increase started at 10.5% and quickly rose […]
Board approves 20 dispensary permits, will move ahead with county regulations
MORGANTOWN — A Thursday morning special session of the Monongalia County Board of Health resulted in approvals for 20 of the 21 medical cannabis dispensary permits pending before the body. […]
Gov. Justice announces program to help with late utility bills
Help is coming for some of the 133,000 West Virginians with delinquent utility bills. At Wednesday’s press conference, Gov. Jim Justice announced that $25 million in CARES Act money has […]
Just over 2,500 ballots cast as 10-day early voting period begins
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County’s 10-day early voting period got off to excellent start on Wednesday according to County Clerk Carye Blaney. A total of 2,537 of the county’s 74,562 registered […]
Mon Commission unanimously endorses Green Bag Road roundabout project
MORGANTOWN — For three weeks running, representative of the Hastings family has asked the Monongalia County Commission to help steer the West Virginia Division of Highways away from a plan […]
New Preston circuit clerk sworn in
KINGWOOD — Lisa Leishman was sworn in Wednesday as Preston County’s new circuit clerk. Leishman will fulfill the remainder of the term of Circuit Clerk Betsy Castle, who is retiring […]
