MORGANTOWN – Bad roads cost money. Most obviously, repairs and maintenance are expensive. But a national nonprofit transportation research organization, TRIP, each year reports on the hidden costs to motorists: vehicle operating costs (VOCs) from rough roads, wasted time and fuel from ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates approved Friday the Senate bills dealing with local health department oversight and alternative teacher certification – both along mostly party lines. SB 12, the health board bill, passed 63-33 with 11 Republicans joining the Democrats to vote ...
Blessings to her Elders. With a capital E. That’s how Romelia Hodges described Wednesday’s COVID vaccination clinic in Fairmont. It was held for the benefit of the more vulnerable people living in and around this Marion County city. A total of 96 first-time doses of the ...
Another COVID case in Monongalia County’s school district has put six students and a teacher at Suncrest Middle into quarantine for the next two weeks. Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said a student contracted the virus from outside of school. “That’s what I keep going back ...
MORGANTOWN -- The city of Morgantown’s fiscal year 2022 budget anticipates flat or reduced revenues in nearly all categories — with one major exception. Sounds bad. But City Manager Kim Haws explained that given the challenges of the past year, things could be a whole lot ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate spent four minutes shy of an hour Tuesday debating a bill to give county commissions veto power over local health boards. And the House of Delegates spent less than five minutes approving a resolution to give the Legislature veto power over state Board of ...