CHARLESTON - More than four years after state, county and city leaders agreed to create a private nonprofit foundation to distribute millions of dollars in opioid settlement dollars, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a change in how future settlement dollars are ...
MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia First Foundation has announced the awardees selected to receive its latest round of grant funding. A total of $17,801,933.96 in Momentum Initiative Grants will be distributed to some 76 projects and awardees, including 16 in the 13-county Region IV, which ...
MORGANTOWN -- Would it surprise you to learn that the city of Charleston – a city of 48,864 people per the 2020 Census – will receive around 46 times more directly allocated opioid settlement funds than the city of Morgantown and its 30,347 residents? Or that Beckley, with a population ...
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission has concluded its second round of opioid grant funding, announcing seven awards totaling $454,900. The funds being distributed are provided to the county annually as its cut of the “local government shares” of roughly $1 billion in opioid ...
MORGANTOWN -- For the second time in just over five months, Jonathan Dower has been selected to represent Region 4 on the West Virginia First Foundation. The foundation is the 11-member board tasked with distributing hundreds of millions in opioid settlement dollars statewide. Dower was ...
MORGANTOWN — Should Granville move its municipal election in line with the county-run primary? Granville Town Council voted in July to put that question before its citizens as part of the upcoming general election. The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday approved the ...