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City lays out plans for ARPA dollars

MORGANTOWN -- One million dollars for flood mitigation and $800,000 for the relocation of Milan Puskar Health Right out of the city’s downtown are among the items included on a plan outlining Morgantown’s American Rescue Plan Act priorities. The city will receive $11,243,509 in ARPA ...

Preston Commissioner wants to boost EMS services

KINGWOOD -- Preston County has wonderful EMS services, but they need a boost to improve their services. That’s why Commissioner Dave Price wants to inject about $400,000 of the county’s CARES money, of which it has $922,018.55, into the county’s EMS programs and establish a yearly ...

Repealing state income tax still just a pipe dream

On Aug. 22, a short essay by Delegate Eric Householder, a Republican and chair of the Finance Committee, discussed the potential “generational opportunity” that cutting the state income tax would create for West Virginians. One of our readers rightfully called him out the following ...

Morgantown residents share thoughts on how to spend ARP funding

MORGANTOWN— Affordable housing, needle exchange programs and a mobile health unit were just a few of the ideas area residents had for spending federal dollars. After receiving more than $11 million in recovery funds through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the City of Morgantown ...