MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice and Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Everett Frazier joined Wednesday to announce a new program aimed at encouraging and training teenagers to get their driver's licenses. The Parent’s Supervised Driving Program (PSDP) is a national program ...
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown is emphasizing the "calm" in traffic calming as part of this summer’s paving plan. Gone are the days of speed bumps, which are not calm and sound borderline illegal. Speed humps? Even worse. Enter the speed cushion. Morgantown ...
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) met with kids with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in Washington, D.C., this week and also discussed the importance of funding The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY). Manchin spoke with two girls who have T1D who were in attendance to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee. The young girls spoke on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) 2023 Children’s Congress Delegates, as well as for the reauthorization of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP). Manchin asked them, “What is something that most people ...
KINGWOOD — A discussion about the possible use of herbicides at Ashpole was tabled until council members and members of the Kingwood Water Board can review information about the products. Shawn Sisler, a transmission forestry specialist at First Energy, said First Energy does low volume maintenance every four years along a right-of-way. He said the herbicides Arsenal and Habitat will only be used at buffer areas. Water Board President Robert DiRiggi said he has concerns about using any chemicals in the area. “We just did an extensive study at Ashpole,” he said. “We are ...
MORGANTOWN — What started out as a quest to create a county-wide panhandling ordinance has resulted in a proposed “Ordinance Regulating Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety.” The change in verbiage, Monongalia County Commission President Tom Bloom explained, came down to a couple ...
West Virginia’s state government finished the fiscal year with a $1.8 billion surplus and still has $451 million of that unappropriated. A large portion of what remains to be appropriated is likely to support highways maintenance, and state officials are still figuring out the rest. “I know there’s been discussion, and I certainly won’t speak for the Legislature or the governor, about whether some of those dollars might go into highways — because in the past we have allocated surplus dollars year in and year out to help catch up all the deferred maintenance on our ...
