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 ...
MORGANTOWN -- Montgomery Ward could only dream of such deals. The parties entered into a lease-purchase agreement in December of 2016, but the Monongalia County Commission has yet to receive a payment from the Monongalia County Development Authority for use of the former Montgomery Ward ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN — As they do on the third Tuesday in April each year, the policy-making bodies for the state’s counties, municipalities and boards of education convened Tuesday to “lay the levy,” or formally set their respective levy rates for the upcoming 2026 fiscal year. Rates will ...
MORGANTOWN -- The city of Bridgeport is suing the director of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development, and the Monongalia County Commission is making sure its thoughts are heard on the matter. This past week, the commission approved the engagement of Steptoe & Johnson to ...