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County subdivision regulations face last-minute legislative hurdle

MORGANTOWN — After decades of discussion and debate, and many fruitless attempts to create some semblance of regulatory structure over development in the county, the Monongalia County Commission was all set to hold a first reading of a countywide subdivision and land division ordinance ...

DOH public meeting set for today for new Mon River bridge

BY MIKE NOLTING The state Division of Highways will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed bridge over the Monongahela River to the Morgantown Industrial Park today. DOH Chief Development Engineer Jason Foster said the meeting will be from 5-8 p.m. at Westwood Middle ...

DOH says nobody working specifically for Monongalia County

MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Division of Highways says there is nobody working for District 4 specifically tasked with addressing issues in Monongalia County.   Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom disagrees.  The Dominion Post reached out to the DOH earlier this week ...

Police and Peers to help with drug problem

KINGWOOD — Kingwood City Council members are giving the Police and Peers program a try. Tonya Helmick, a member of the program who was at the Tuesday evening meeting, will work alongside the Kingwood Police Department to help with drug and homeless problems. According to the West Virginia Office of Drug Control Policy, Police and Peers (PNP) is a grant-funded program aimed at sharing the workload placed on law enforcement when responding to a nonviolent, non-law enforcement-specific incident. The concept of PNP is to pair an embedded or co-responding Peer Recovery Support ...

Justice wants money for storm victims but leading lawmakers say he already has it

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice said he could be helping victims of last week’s storms had the legislature agreed with his $50 million allocation in his proposed state budget for disaster assistance. Justice said during his Wednesday media briefing the money could have helped victims like those of last week’s tornado in the Fayette County community of Lavista. “That $50 million would have been sending dollars and be able to help that man today, today, but we cut it out of the budget,” Justice said. Justice said the fund could get assistance to victims more quickly while ...

Governor says he doesn’t know details of tax liens

Two months ago, the state tax department overseen by Gov. Jim Justice’s administration filed seven liens for unpaid sales taxes amounting to $3.5 million owed by The Greenbrier Hotel Corp., which is owned by Justice’s family. Merchants collect sales taxes from customers but that’s ...