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Longview to make $1.2 billion investment in natural gas, solar power

MORGANTOWN — Already operating one of the world’s most advanced and efficient coal-fired power plants, Longview Power is ready to invest an estimated $1.2 billion to build natural gas and solar power generation facilities. Longview Power President and CEO Jeffery Keffer said the company ...

House Government Organization sends two local roads bills to full House

CHARLESTON — Two locally generated roads bills won the approval of the House Government Organization Committee Friday morning and head to the full House for passage. HB 3044 calls on the Division of Highways to develop and apply a formula to equitably distribute road funds among the districts and counties. HB 2011 empowers the DOH districts to contract out core maintenance work if the districts fail to reach a set threshold of work accomplished. HB 2001 is lead sponsored by Delegate John Williams, D-Monongalia, joined by Mon Democrats Barbara Evans Fleischauer, Rodney Pyles, ...

House passes gambling, hunting, tax bills

CHARLESTON – While most eyes and minds were on the passage of the House teacher pay raise bill on Friday, the House of Delegates also passed a pile of other significant — and a few under-the-radar — bills. Here’s a look at them. — SB 13 is the last step in a series of moves ...

Longview Power CEO: We’re going to take care of this road

MORGANTOWN — Longview Power President and CEO Jeffery Keffer said the company is committed to doing right by the residents along Fort Martin Road (County Route 53) and has promised about $1.5 million toward maintenance and upgrades for the route. Further, Keffer explained, the recent ...

Your Community Foundation names 2019 board members

MORGANTOWN — Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia Inc. recently announced its 2019 Board of Directors leadership team in a press release. The board includes: Chair James Griffin, of Harrison County; Vice Chair J.D. Mann, of Preston County; Treasurer Thomas Aman, Harrison County; and Secretary Robert Greer, of Harrison County. “I am very excited to continue the great work started by my predecessors,” Griffin said in the release. “YCF will continue to lead by example and stay in tune with community groups through fundraising initiatives, local committee ...