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County's broadband investment facing Dec. 31 deadline

MORGANTOWN – A five-year push to spread broadband into unserved and underserved areas across Monongalia County is going to come down to the next four months. Through a public, private partnership with Comcast, the county is working to complete four installation projects by Dec. ...

County broadband efforts have started bringing homes online

MORGANTOWN – Just over four years after the Monongalia County Commission took its first official step toward county-wide broadband access, homes are coming online. During an update as part of Wednesday’s commission meeting, Commissioner Sean Sikora said he recently toured a portion of ...

Sikora: Broadband investment will bring homes online in 2025

MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Commissioner Sean Sikora said he expects the county’s broadband projects to start bringing people online this year. The commission used approximately $8 million of its $20.6 million American Rescue Plan Act dollars to leverage more than $20 million in ...

A look back at the top city, county stories of 2024

A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like the swirl of topics surrounding a relatively small, but vulnerable, group of ...

Mon Commission closing out 2024 with broadband push

MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Commission on Monday approved a pair of contracts with Comcast that will put some 20 miles of fiber network in place and make broadband available to more than 120 homes and businesses. The work had to be separated into two agreements due to funding ...

County looking to spend the last of its ARPA broadband funds

MORGANTOWN -- In a quarterly update to the Monongalia County Commission, Comcast Compliance Manager Dana Gossert explained the design of a $17.8 million broadband expansion project is expected to be complete this year. The project will bring broadband to 2,175 unserved and underserved ...