MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom said Wednesday he’s not sure what’s changed at the West Virginia Division of Highways, or why, but he hopes it continues. Days after it was learned the DOH is reversing years of precedent by contracting some core maintenance ...
MORGANTOWN — Despite holding the county’s base levy rates in place, the Monongalia County Commission anticipates a 15.38% jump in revenue in the next fiscal year. The commission on Wednesday passed a $44,244,654 spending plan for the 2025 fiscal year beginning July 1. As ...
Growling bellies don’t care about intellectual growth or academic progress. In other words, if you’re a kid in Monongalia County, and you went to bed hungry last night (and plenty of kids here do), that means you also woke up hungry this morning. Which also means you’re probably ...
MORGANTOWN — Thursday’s announcement that Jonathan Board has been selected as executive director of the West Virginia First Foundation leaves Region 4 without a representative on the 11-member body tasked with distributing hundreds of millions in opiate settlement dollars ...
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom said he’s normally not one to take a public stance on the various bills being debated in Charleston. Wednesday was an exception. He said the expansion of House Bill 5105 to allow parents to opt out of vaccination ...
There’s a push in Charleston to get some of the state’s nearly $1 billion in opioid settlement money flowing by Election Day. Region 4 wants to be ready. To that end, the Monongalia County Commission hosted a meeting of regional representatives Thursday morning at the ...