MORGANTOWN – According to a report from the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department, 18 vehicles sustained flat tires or other damage Thursday morning due to a large hole that opened up […]
Tag: potholes
Whose road is it anyway? Marion commissioners asked for upkeep on orphan stretch near Worthington
FAIRMONT – Doug Starcher doesn’t work for West Virginia’s Division of Highways, but he has been known to do on-the-fly road maintenance from time to time. That’s so he can […]
Rough patch: City, DOH to address crumbling roads downtown
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown is working with the West Virginia Division of Highways to address the rough road conditions in the city’s downtown. Starting Tuesday, city crews will […]
Very cold and very wet: A West Virginia pothole story
MORGANTOWN — It’s been wetter than normal. It’s been colder than normal. And if that’s not depressing enough on its own, those are the exact conditions necessary for a bumper […]
As long as the road work gets done …
State Sen. Mike Oliverio’s office announced the Division of Highways would be getting help from private contractors to help take care of ditching so DOH workers could focus on core […]
Hubcaps on a pole: Spring is coming to Morgantown
They call it “The Rim Reaper.” That would have been a perfect opening for this story — an ominous nickname for the wooden pole that stands waiting, watching and collecting […]
Goodbye potholes and one-way streets? Maybe
R.I.P Potholes Gov. Jim Justice proudly announced operation “R.I.P Potholes” — an unusual off-season hot-asphalt pothole patching effort. As much as we criticize the West Virginia Division of Highways and […]
Asphalt plants get early start with new pothole patching operation
BY JARETT LEWIS CHARLESTON — Operation R.I.P. Potholes will commence this month. Gov. Jim Justice and the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) said crews will be tending to some […]
Aug. 6 letters to the editor
City prepared to help WVU through changes Recently I was honored to have been invited to a meeting held by West Virginia Campus Workers, a group of WVU employees organizing […]
#FTDR: Fix the (blank) roads!
Part of my daily commute includes about a half-mile portion of W.Va. 7 that is in terrible shape. The pavement is so twisted and misshapen that even crawling along around […]
