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 ...
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 ...
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 ...