MORGANTOWN – Waste not, want not. As many as 1 in 5 children across West Virginia go to bed with growling bellies every night. That number comes from Feeding America, the national watchdog group – and it isn’t just about socioeconomic malaise in the mountains. Said ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday approved a one-year ground lease with Enrout Properties for the new home of the county’s recycling center – 34 Olin Street in the Morgantown Industrial Park. The commission will pay $12,000 for use of the .75-acre site for the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Commission is working out the details of a lease agreement that will allow it to move its recycling drop-off location to a dedicated space in the Morgantown Industrial Park. It’s been in the parking lot next to Westover City Hall since the 2014 collapse of ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was never meant to be permanent. In 2014, after a confluence of events rapidly crippled the county-wide recycling program operated by the Monongalia County Solid Waste Authority, the county commission set up a spartan, stop-gap effort to keep recycling available for ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Commission on Monday committed the last of its American Rescue Plan Act money for a broadband project to expand service into the area of Gladesville and Halleck roads. All told, the commission will put up $791,421 (or 83%) of a $953,519 project that will ...
Could our unshakeable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest producer of its key feedstocks, oil and gas — has joined a bloc supporting a worldwide treaty capping plastics ...