MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Board of Health President Sam Chico said the health department needs to start compiling all available data on the county’s severe COVID-19 cases and deaths, even if he has to help fund that research. During a recent gathering of the board, Chico ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Officer Lee Smith isn’t one to mince words in the best of times. But after more than a year at the center of the area’s COVID-19 response, he may be running low on patience, particularly with Charleston. On Thursday, the Monongalia County ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate spent four minutes shy of an hour Tuesday debating a bill to give county commissions veto power over local health boards. And the House of Delegates spent less than five minutes approving a resolution to give the Legislature veto power over state Board of ...
Addiction specialist, doctor argue against use “This was a bad idea from the outset.” That’s how Richard Vaglienti, a physician with 30 years specializing in pain management, characterized medical cannabis. Vaglienti was speaking to members of the Monongalia County Board of ...
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Star City not happy with BOH delay The Monongalia County Board of Health has scheduled a special meeting for 8 a.m. Thursday to discuss proposed regulations regarding medical cannabis dispensaries. The special meeting comes about two weeks after the board hung the regulations at the ...