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Surge in FOIA requests prompts county policy discussion

MORGANTOWN – “The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments of government ...

Marion County early voting up 11% from this time in 2022

FAIRMONT – Democracy arrived mostly in twos and threes at the J. Harper Building in Fairmont on Friday morning. That was the general grouping of people turning out to mark their ballots ahead of Tuesday’s national midterm election – which Marion County Clerk Julie Kincaid said she ...

The Rev. Richard Bowyer: Eternally faithful, forever present

FAIRMONT – He heard the rumble, felt it, from behind the wheel. Right before he met the first truck laden with limestone, coming the other way. Actually, that first truck was part of a caravan of trucks, laden with limestone, coming the other way. The limestone was going to be used to ...