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. ...
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 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 ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – As Verizon pursues its plan to acquire Frontier Communications, state Public Service Commission staff have made the PSC aware of some concerns regarding the transaction in West Virginia. PSC utilities staff didn't come out for or against the ...
Multiple broadband projects seek to connect unserved areas to internet The good news: West Virginia is slated to receive approximately $1.2 billion of $42.45 billion of the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program — the 11th largest allocation nationwide based on ...
MORGANTOWN — No cell service. No land lines. Kathy Sine, who lives in the area of Statler Run and Jakes Run, in western Monongalia County, said her home has been without phone service since early last week. “Something has got to happen,” she said. “There’s no way to contact ...