Mr. Shoe and the Rising Stars. No, that’s not the name of your crazy uncle’s sonically challenged garage band that played exactly one (mercifully short) gig in the summer of 1985. Just call the above the coda for life in the spring of 2020, for anyone associated with Suncrest ...
Around 8,000 West Virginia University students received emergency grants of $750 from the federal government to help offset expenses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds given to students come from the federal government’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. That ...
WVU Hospitals said Wednesday it received a Certificate of Need from the West Virginia Health Care Authority to move into a portion of the vacated Fairmont Regional Medical Center and to construct a 25-bed hospital next to its Urgent Care facility at the Gateway Connector. The announcement ...
Mon Health System received its Certificate of Need from the West Virginia Health Care Authority to proceed with plans to construct a $20 million, small format hospital in Fairmont. Mon Health CEO David Goldberg said the next step is to put the project out for bid. Construction, he said, should take 16 months to complete. “We’ll be open by the end of the year 2021,” he said. The 10-bed hospital, dubbed Mon Health Marion Neighborhood Hospital, will be constructed on land the health system already owns along Interstate 79 near Fresenius Kidney Care in Pleasant ...
Visit Mountaineer Country Convention and Visitors Bureau furloughed eight employees, laid off two part-time and one full-time staff member and its president and CEO took a voluntary20% salary cut. Susan Riddle said these moves were necessary because the bulk of the CVB’s revenue — the6% Monongalia County hotel room tax — has been mostly wiped out by COVID-19 restrictions and business closures since March. “Nationwide, the industry has been devastated,” said Riddle, who made the cost-cutting moves last month. “This was the right thing to do,” said Riddle, adding ...
Crews from Westover, Granville, River Road and Star City volunteer fire departments responded to a fire at Vic’s Junk Yard on Fairmont Road around 7 p.m. Saturday. Flames were visible in several spots around the yard and witnesses in the area said the smoke could be seen from miles away. ...
