Monongalia County is in the red. COVID-19 numbers continue to climb. Schools have gone online and sports, outside of WVU, have been sidelined. People are frustrated. In response, members of […]
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City looks to become arts hub
Council passes resolution unanimously Some 15 years ago, the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History created a program through which towns, cities and counties could designate themselves as […]
Mon readies for the (remote) first day of school
County remains red; Undergrads learn online until Sept. 25 Keyboard-clicks from the Chromebook, as your kid answers roll, remotely, for homeroom. Echoing footsteps from a principal, patrolling an empty hallway. […]
County turning red as plan forms to request WVU data pulled from overall statistics
MORGANTOWN — Following an emergency work session on Wednesday, a plan is forming that would ask Governor Jim Justice to remove WVU’s COVID-19 statistics from the numbers used to determine […]
Mon County Commission remembers former Commissioner Bob Bell
MORGANTOWN — Sean Sikora was a bit nervous the first time he met Bob Bell. A Republican, Sikora was a political novice and a county commission candidate when a mutual […]
County hopes to fund I-79 project
Glenn Adrian proposed interchange idea to commission If you build it, they will come. Sure, the line originated with disembodied voices and ghosts playing baseball in a cornfield, but the […]
County commission holds discussion on farmland preservation efforts
MORGANTOWN — The desire for locally-produced food and products. The drive for land conservation and preservation of green space. A need to safeguard a way of life for future generations. […]
From red to orange to yellow: Mon County cases slowed in recent weeks
MORGANTOWN — From red to orange to yellow. Based on Harvard’s COVID-19 metrics for measuring rate of infection, new cases of COVID-19 have slowed dramatically in Monongalia County over the […]
Justice extends order closing county bars for an additional 10 days
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice’s executive order closing bars in Monongalia County has been extended 10 days. The original 10-day closure — aimed at slowing a spike in COVID-19 numbers […]
County slips out of ‘red’ zone, county commission offers recommendations
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County turned orange on Wednesday. Keeping the county orange — or anything but red, really — was part of the focus of a Wednesday work session between […]
