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Green Bag Road project to help fund community gardening

MORGANTOWN — It looks as if the long-discussed and argued-over Green Bag Road intersection project may be popping up rutabagas before it's putting down roundabouts.  Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Executive Director Bill Austin recently told members of the MPO ...

The wheels on the bus don’t go that fast

At the Monongalia County Commission meeting late last week, parents of Ridgedale Elementary School students raised concerns about the intersection of Grafton and Goshen Roads. The matter came up again at the subsequent MPO meeting. The school is nestled in the “V” of Goshen Road and ...

To prevent floods, need less concrete and more ‘sponges’

When MPO Executive Director Bill Austin met with The Dominion Post Editorial Board, he talked about building resiliency into the Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Resiliency is creating infrastructure that lasts, but also creating infrastructure that can survive a changing environment that ...

Morgantown Area Partnership focusing on Infrastructure Week

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Area Partnership wants to talk infrastructure, and they want you to participate. And when better than during Infrastructure Week, which kicks off Monday? Tony Faini is helping spearhead the local initiative as chair of MAP’s Government Affairs ...