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Commissioners 'excited' about transportation leadership changes

MORGANTOWN -- Hope springs eternal in the hearts of Monongalia County Commissioners - at least when it comes to the county’s on-again, off-again relationship with the West Virginia Division of Highways brass. Members of the commission on Wednesday reacted to news that Jimmy Wriston is ...

County asks judge to toss 'panhandling' lawsuit

MORGANTOWN -- An attorney representing the three Monongalia County Commissioners as well as the county’s former sheriff has asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit challenging the legality of the county's Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Ordinance. Tiffany Durst, with Pullin, Fowler, ...

Origin of shelter clients becomes a talking point

MORGANTOWN -- At what point can someone say they’re from Monongalia County? When can a person claim Morgantown as home? Is it based on a feeling - the passage of time - an address? And why, ultimately, does it matter? A debate has sparked of late about who is utilizing the Grace ...

Ron Justice: It's been a good run, but I'm not going anywhere

MORGANTOWN -- Today, the world knows him as Darius Rucker. Ron Justice knew him before the world called him Hootie. They met in Justice’s small Mountainlair office one day at the tail end of the 1980s. The future superstar was coming to see the Greek Life advisor with a ...

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 ...