MORGANTOWN -- “We’re frustrated,” Monongalia County Commission President Jeff Arnett said Wednesday, “But we’re not giving up.” Arnett’s comments were directed to Richard-area resident and property owner Kevin Dailey. The commission's stated frustration is a result ...
FAIRMONT — Maintenance workers for Marion County Schools pumped more than 300 gallons of water from Monongah Elementary after Sunday’s sudden deluge of rain and flash floods. “Monongah was the school that probably got hit the hardest,” Superintendent Donna Heston ...
MORGANTOWN — As the crow flies, it’s only about 3.3 miles between the Morgantown Utility Board’s water treatment plant on Don Knotts Boulevard and its wastewater treatment plant near the Star City Bridge. During the height of Sunday’s deluge, the rain gauge on the Don Knotts ...
There’s a lot of water in Richard. Not a big surprise, really. The tiny, incorporated area just beyond Sabraton on Earl L Core Road (W.Va. 7) sits in a floodplain. Except the water is always there. Rain, no rain — it doesn’t really matter. There it is, pooling in places ...
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS Staff Reporter CHARLESTON – West Virginia emergency response officials are now in day four of response to the weekend flooding in multiple counties in Southern West Virginia, and while progress is being made on opening roadways and reconnecting power, the death ...
by Mark Gongloff If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did get into would be far more likely to injure or kill you, you probably wouldn’t take that deal. But that might be the ...