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Mon Commission partners with Frontier for final ARPA project

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 ...

Mon Commission closing out 2024 with broadband push

MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Commission on Monday approved a pair of contracts with Comcast that will put some 20 miles of fiber network in place and make broadband available to more than 120 homes and businesses. The work had to be separated into two agreements due to funding ...

A net positive: City, county support needle exchange program

MORGANTOWN -- Difficult, counterintuitive, unsightly. Those were some of the words used by members of the Monongalia County Commission to describe Milan Puskar Health Right’s needle exchange program, known as LIGHT, or Living in Good Health Together. The commission’s final word on ...

Commissioners, sheriff sued over pedestrian safety ordinance

MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Commissioners Tom Bloom, Sean Sikora and Jeff Arnett, as well as Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer, have been named as defendants in a lawsuit challenging the county's Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Ordinance. The class action suit was filed Wednesday in ...

County watching city's handling of Republic rate request

MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Council appears ready to dig in its heels regarding a West Virginia Public Service Commission-approved rate hike being requested by the city’s contracted trash hauler, Republic Services. On Tuesday, the body refused to even discuss passage of the $2.43 per ...

Mon Commission puts stipulations on WestRidge deadline extensions

MORGANTOWN -- Reading between the lines, you get the impression that members of the Monongalia County Commission had a number of questions when they met in closed session with representatives of developer WestRidge last week. Commission President Sean Sikora said the executive session was ...