MORGANTOWN -- After being inundated in recent weeks with correspondence and public comment against a power transmission project eyeing a potential route through parts of Monongalia County, the Monongalia County Commission is seeking an audience with NextEra, the company building it. The ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN — “This is just not sustainable.” Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom lamented that the annual increases in the cost of group employee health insurance is on a trajectory that will consume an untenable percentage of the county’s overall budget in the near future ...
MORGANTOWN — Depending on who you ask, NextEra’s MidAtlantic Resiliency Link transmission project will either take advantage of West Virginia ratepayers and countryside to power up data centers in Virginia – or it’ll be an economic boon to the Mountain State, generating hundreds of ...
MORGANTOWN — In the current Monongalia County Commission budget, roughly $1.1 million of the $43.6 million spending plan is allocated to social services. That number doesn’t include more than $500,000 in opioid settlement funds passed through the county. That, the commissioners said ...
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 ...