CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates sailed through passage of several healthcare- and child welfarerelated bills on Wednesday, Jan. 30, but divided on and debated at length an amendment to the foster care bill. The foster care bill is HB 2010. It proposes to allow the Department of ...
CHARLESTON — The House Government Organization committee quickly passed and sent to the floor on Wednesday one of the five bills creating a Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority for Monongalia and neighboring counties. And after long debate and a divisive amendment, it ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Adjutant General James Hoyer advised the House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security on Wednesday about the progress he’s made in getting the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management back on track. Deep into the questioning, when the meeting had passed an hour, the meeting went a bit off the rails when a delegate criticized previous DHSEM Director Jimmy Gianato and another delegate moved to take the meeting behind closed doors in executive session. That debate was aborted when a third delegate moved to adjourn and his motion ...
MORGANTOWN — Because temperatures Jan. 31 are expected to remain in the teens and single digits, Monongalia and Preston county schools will be closed. Mon Schools will be closed for students and staff. Preston will have a Brain Freeze day, in which students work on pre-determined activities/lessons at home and staff reports to school. All after school activities are canceled. Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels will not deliver food Jan. 31 because of the temperatures.
MORGANTOWN — Two Michigan men are in jail after the Mon Metro Drug Task Force found drugs in two home searches. Treayane Issac Johnson, 41, of Detroit, and Demonte Larry Thompkins, 26, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan are each charged with two counts of possession with intent. Grosse Pointe is ...
MORGANTOWN — A pair of improvements to Monongalia County’s online presence were among the issues discussed Wednesday. In particular, County Commissioner Sean Sikora explained, those looking to apply for grant funding through the county can now do so online at co.monongalia.wv.us/. Grant applications for the 2019-’20 fiscal year can be found by mousing over “Government” and then “Commission.” “The applications are now there and you can do it totally online or you can download the forms,” Sikora said. Additionally, the commission plans to unveil upgrades to its ...
