BY Ben Conley and Will DeanBConley@DominionPost.comWDean@DominionPost.com Extreme and egregious. That’s how Mary Hastings, speaking on behalf of her sister, Jennifer Hastings, described a plan to build a pair of roundabouts […]
Tag: Monongalia County Commission
County anticipates $2M bill to sends prisoners to regional jail
Time is money. In particular, in West Virginia, time spent in one of the state’s 10 regional jails is the taxpayers’ money being paid through the counties. Monongalia County, one […]
Postcast 39 – October 2, 2020
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Public, private agreement allows study of new Harmony Grove interchange
MORGANTOWN — If all goes as planned — and that’s a substantial if — construction of a new Harmony Grove I-79 interchange could get underway in March 2022. The Monongalia […]
Clerk gives update on election
Blaney assures absentee ballots never leave Mon More than 5,000 absentee ballots will hit the mail Friday as the Monongalia County Clerk’s office begins final preparations for the Nov. 3 […]
EMS merger is a ‘work in progress’
Forest Weyen has had a busy year. Hired in October 2019 as the executive director of a newly reformed Mon EMS — a merger of Mon EMS and WVU Hospitals’ […]
Commission asks for public’s patience
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 […]
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 […]
