MORGANTOWN — If you want to take the glass-half-full approach to the weather of late, maybe consider the tubing hill at Monongalia County’s Chestnut Ridge Park. Monongalia County Commissioner Tom […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MPO to explore local control of traffic lights
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 […]
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 […]
