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Richard water dispute back before county commission

 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 ...

Sikora: Broadband investment will bring homes online in 2025

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 ...

FirstEnergy shares stats of April 19 storm response effort

MORGANTOWN — By all accounts, the business end of the storm that turned out the lights in Morgantown and the surrounding area on April 19 only lasted a few minutes. But what was done in those few minutes required 475 workers, the replacement of 188 poles – including 135 in Monongalia ...

County commission commends response to Easter weekend storm

MORGANTOWN — In his tenure on the Monongalia County Commission, Jeff Arnett said he’s come to understand that unexpected, early-morning phone calls are rarely made to deliver good news. That goes extra on Easter Sunday. “Easter morning, after a sunrise service; we were out of town ...

MCSD nears full staffing levels with addition of seven deputies

MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Sheriff Todd Forbes said you’d likely have to go back the better part of a decade — to the tenure of former Sheriff Al Kisner — to find the last time the sheriff’s department had a full complement of deputies. But if all goes according to plan, the ...