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Board selection opens Region 4 seat on opiate settlement foundation

MORGANTOWN — Thursday’s announcement that Jonathan Board has been selected as executive director of the West Virginia First Foundation leaves Region 4 without a representative on the 11-member body tasked with distributing hundreds of millions in opiate settlement dollars ...

Preston Commission fields requests for funds

KINGWOOD — Arthurdale Heritage Inc. (AHI) Director Darlene Bolyard gave Preston County commissioners an update on AHI’s arts and heritage program during their Tuesday meeting. AHI was recently named a 2024 Governor’s Arts Award recipient for its Folk Arts Organization. Bolyard ...

United Way announces $1.4M campaign effort

Here are some of the people you meet on your way, every day: Such as the gent in the other lane who absently glanced over a second or two before the light changed. And that smiling grandmother you handed your shopping cart off to, just now. Don’t forget the mom and dad of the kid who ...

University Town Centre traffic lights come in at $1.5 million

MORGANTOWN — “I’m glad you guys are sitting down.”  This is not what you want to hear when somebody is about to give you a number with a dollar sign in front of it.   Granville Mayor Patty Lewis used the line to brace members of the Monongalia County Commission on ...

Fifth body found near deadly Lewis County fire

CHARLESTON — Lewis County Sheriff Dave Gosa said there’s another victim at the scene of a deadly fire on Glady Creek Road, near the community of Ireland. Gosa told MetroNews Tuesday a man’s body was found about 100 yards from the house, behind a chicken coop. He had suffered a fatal gunshot wound. The body, which was discovered around 10 p.m. Monday, is the fifth victim in connection with the late Sunday night crime that also claimed the lives of four people inside the house. Authorities have said the suspect in the case, Luke Wilson, 45, of Walkersville, drove to eastern ...