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 ...
MORGANTOWN - Imagine how difficult it must be to perfectly program timed traffic lights to optimize the flow of traffic in a densely populated urban area. Now imagine doing it from two cities over, or maybe 150 miles away. That, in a nutshell, is the setup when it comes to traffic ...
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 ...
Democrat Tom Bloom locked up a third six-year term on the Monongalia County Commission Tuesday evening, besting Republican challenger MaryAnn Folz 21,477 to 19,128. "I'm feeling a lot better now than at 7:30," Bloom said after the unofficial results were posted. "I just want to thank the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Almost exactly one year ago (Oct. 19, 2023) members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board were told they would likely see temporary traffic lights going up on Chaplin Hill Road at both I-79 off ramps in the first quarter of 2024. In ...
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 ...