MORGANTOWN — Morgantown’s Anderson Excavating has been awarded a $14,475,154.74 contract to widen a portion of West Run Road. Dirar Ahmad, representing DOH Traffic and Engineering Division, told The Dominion Post in July the state was acquiring rights-of-way for the project ...
The Senate Finance chairman grilled the director of West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster about its financial practices. The organization is involved with disaster relief in West Virginia, drawing down public dollars to support those efforts. VOAD was among the organizations leading relief efforts from West Virginia’s devastating 2016 flood, along with the National Guard. VOAD’s former finance and operations manager, Benjamin Cisco, was charged last spring with several counts of fraud and money laundering. He has a sentencing hearing at 11 a.m. Thursday ...
MORGANTOWN — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday declined an invitation submitted jointly by the Monongalia County Commission and Planning Commission to revisit Lake Lynn Dam and gather more public input. FERC said it doesn't need to return at this time. The two Mon ...
MORGANTOWN — As it does every year, the Monongalia County Commission opened its first meeting of 2024 with a passing of the gavel. Sean Sikora will serve as the body’s president this year. Tom Bloom, who served as president in 2023, is up for reelection in November. Bloom ...
BY MIKE NOLTING At more than 50 years and counting, state officials hope a large final section of Corridor H can be under construction in the next year. State Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston, recently acknowledged the priority on the final episode of WV On The DOT podcast of 2023. More than 120 miles of Corridor H are now open, and the two sections left to complete are a 10-mile section from Parsons to Davis and the section on the far eastern end from Wardensville, Hardy County, to the Virginia border. “We need to get that road moving, and we need to get that road ...
Last year when the Legislature was considering a bill to generate money to hire more state inspectors for oil and gas wells, lobbyist David McMahon warned that it wouldn’t be enough. “We appreciate this bill. We think it’s not enough,” McMahon, co-founder of the West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization, told senators. And now, with the legislative session just ahead again, McMahon is advocating to revisit the issue. The regular session of the West Virginia Legislature begins Jan. 10. Senate Energy Chairman Randy Smith, R-Tucker, agreed that the support for oil ...
