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MUB, White Park take center stage during BOPARC meeting

MORGANTOWN — The public dialogue surrounding how the Morgantown Utility Board should get water from the new secondary source reservoir currently under construction to its water treatment facility continued during Wednesday’s BOPARC meeting. The issue has drawn considerable public feedback since coming to the fore late last month, when it was learned MUB intended to clear a path through White Park, and a number of 100-plus year old “witness” trees, to lay the 30-inch, gravity fed pipeline. MUB has since abandoned that original design but the conversation continues, as evidenced ...

Education groups call on Justice to cancel special session on reform issues

CHARLESTON — The leaders of West Virginia’s three education workers groups are calling on Gov. Jim Justice to cancel next week’s special session if lawmakers plan to bring up the same education reform issues the leaders say have been rejected by the general public. “We call on Gov. ...

Two Preston women charged with child neglect

KINGWOOD — Two Preston County women are charged with child neglect creating risk of injury after police say they left an infant alone in a running car with weapons. Ashley Dawn Masters, 23, of Masontown, and Rhonda Lynne Bucklew, 42, of Rowlesburg, were charged Wednesday by State Police. ...

Longview Power CEO outlines gas and solar plant plans to WVONGA members

WHEELING — The Longview Power coal-fired plant in Morgantown is the cleanest in the world and the most efficient in North America, Longview Power President and CEO Jeff Keffer told members of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association. But it’s probably the last of its ...

DOH addresses gas industry road impacts with WVONGA members

WHEELING — Roads are on the mind of every West Virginia driver who has to clang through and weave around potholes. But they’re also on the minds of oil and gas industry executives whose companies have to use, maintain and sometimes rebuild them to keep the gas flowing and keep all the ...