FAIRMONT – On Fairmont’s East Side, all roads lead to New Street, Water Street, East Park Avenue, Merchant Street and Morgantown Avenue. Or they soon will. After months of gridding out the details, the city and West Virginia’s Division of Highways announced Thursday work on a new ...
FAIRMONT – Doug Starcher doesn’t work for West Virginia’s Division of Highways, but he has been known to do on-the-fly road maintenance from time to time. That’s so he can get into his driveway, he told Marion County commissioners Wednesday. “I’m not elected,” he said. ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Division of Highways has released a list of road-paving projects planned, using $150 million in surplus funds appropriated by the Legislature during its May special session. The $150 million supplemental budget appropriation will be used exclusively for paving ...
BY MIKE NOLTING The state Division of Highways will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed bridge over the Monongahela River to the Morgantown Industrial Park today. DOH Chief Development Engineer Jason Foster said the meeting will be from 5-8 p.m. at Westwood Middle ...
BY MIKE NOLTING The state Division of Highways is turning to contractors to do what has typically been regular maintenance work in north-central West Virginia. In an effort to relieve some of the core maintenance workload for DOH workers, bids have been received to complete ditching in ...
The season is changing, the weather is cooling, the days are shorter and the leaves are putting on their autumn colors. Yet one thing remains the same: The state-maintained roads are still in terrible condition. Medians are overgrown, ditches haven’t been cleared, potholes are popping up ...