JBissett@DominionPost.comMarion County judge has denied the injunction that would have stopped Friday’s sale of the John Manchin Sr. Health Center in Fairmont. Judge Matt Delligatti made his ruling at the close of a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday that included testimony from Cathie ...
FAIRMONT — You don’t have to look very hard to see what Fairmont’s Beltline neighborhood once was. For decades, the Beltline was an industrial and community destination for the Marion County city that was always on the clock. Day and night, from the early 1900s on, the Beltline ...
FAIRMONT — The reaction couldn’t be more typical, Adam Leach said. Leach is vice president of operations for Agile5 Technologies, a firm that does its work at I-79 Technology Park. That’s the expanse just past Fairmont on the southern end of Marion County, and right at the ...
FAIRMONT — If it hadn’t been for the movie, “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Johnnie Johnson likely would have ended his days unheralded in St. Louis, a part-time bus driver who could play a mean boogie-woogie piano when he wanted. Said title is the 1987 documentary that celebrates ...
FAIRMONT — It was 1966 when the first of the fully laden dump trucks began rumbling down from Pittsburgh on those pre-interstate roads. And Carol McWilliams couldn’t wait. She knew that the architectural vision she had been carrying around since she was a kid was about to erupt, ...
FAIRMONT — You never leave a wounded bird up there, on its own. That’s what they called them, the shot-up B-17s and B-24s, crippled by the German ack-ack fire and trying to make it back to their bases, after dropping their bombs from the lethally busy skies over Europe in World War ...