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 […]
Tag: Monongalia County Commission
Commission breaks down county’s rescue plan spending
MORGANTOWN — Of the $20.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act money received by Monongalia County, more than $17 million, or approximately 85%, was spent on water, […]
A look back at the top city, county stories of 2024
A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like […]
Mon Commission partners with Frontier for final ARPA project
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission on Monday committed the last of its American Rescue Plan Act money for a broadband project to expand service into the […]
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 […]
Mon County in the path of a ‘major’ power transmission project
MORGANTOWN — While the exact route remains a work in progress, Monongalia County appears to be in the path of a major power transmission project. On Wednesday, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Catholic Charities to operate warming shelter with city, county support
MORGANTOWN — Catholic Charities West Virginia has been tapped to run a winter warming shelter in the former Hope Hill Sobering Center space on the ground floor […]
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 […]
