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Crogan Lift Station expansion about halfway complete

BY JENNIFER GRAHAM KINGWOOD — The Kingwood Sanitary Sewer Board met Monday evening, and ended with the board members going into executive session. Eleni Knight, an engineer from Civil & Environmental Consultants (CEC) said the Crogan Lift Station extension was over half way complete. She said all of the rights-of-way needed for the project have been signed. Knight said, however, one resident wouldn’t sign the right-of-way unless they removed nine trees on his property for him. The trees were removed. During the last meeting, Mike Flueharty from CEC said there were ...

Shiny Dome Records leading Morgantown’s vinyl revival

MORGANTOWN -- You don’t have to be in a basement to have a cool record store.   But it sure does help.  “I think it’s a very punk rock thing. A lot of punk record shops throughout the country are in basements,” Chris Herrod said. “It’s just a cool aesthetic. You ...

Three local organizations awarded CALT grant

The Scotts Run Settlement House, The Shack and the Scotts Run Museum and Trail announced that their partnership proposal was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) grant for West Virginia. This grant will be used to implement a year of events and classes at the three venues to pass on traditions of foodways, history/heritage, music culture and repair/upcycle. The project is called Scotts Run Resonance — Passing It Forward. Central Appalachia Living Traditions promotes the understanding and recognition of folk arts and culture in the Appalachian ...

Mon Commission to consider extension of property, sales tax districts

MORGANTOWN — More than 2.3 million square feet of new development, private investment in excess of $561 million and nearly 4,500 jobs.  Those numbers represent the economic impact made to date by the sales tax and property tax districts that comprise the Monongalia County ...

NETL contractor wins award for technology transfer advances

MORGANTOWN — A NETL contractor has received the Federal Laboratory Consortium Mid-Atlantic region's “Best in Region” award for his work that has significantly reduced the complexity of transferring the lab’s technologies to the private sector and increased the number of agreements ...

Ribbon-cutting to celebrate new recovery facility

A ribbon-cutting celebration with food trucks and games will give area residents an opportunity to see the new Friendship Community in Recovery facility. The grand-opening event will be from 1-4 p.m. Thursday at 227 Don Knotts Blvd. There will be games, resources, snacks and tours of the center and an opportunity to meet the team members. Friendship Community in Recovery is an offering of Milan Puskar Health Right, a community-supported free and charitable clinic. During Thursday’s event, attendees can visit with all programs from Milan Puskar Health Right, the Region VI ...