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Student enrollment focus of Preston BOE meeting

KINGWOOD – Continued decline in student enrollment was once again a topic at this week's Board of Education meeting. “In assessing our initial enrollment submission to the WVDE, it appears that enrollment will again be down by approximately 143 students with 8 of 9 schools seeing ...

Funding disbursed to Preston County ambulance agencies

KINGWOOD - Members of the Preston County Commission provided an update on EMS Ordinance implementations at their meeting this week. According to EMS Ordinance Administer Brian Larew, the commission recently provided $41,691.27 in financial assistance to local ambulance agencies to address ...

City annulling streets in East End Village development area

MORGANTOWN – In November 2023, dozens of parcels that make up the East End Village development area were consolidated into a single parcel at the request of the property owner, the Monongalia County Development Authority. Currently, a process is underway to finalize that consolidation by ...

PSC questions local impacts of grid expansion through W.Va.

CHARLESTON – Two out of the three members of the West Virginia Public Service Commission questioned the necessity of proposed 500 kilovolt electric transmission line through parts of the state during the second day of evidentiary hearings Tuesday. PSC Chairwoman Charlotte Lane and ...

Judge to hear free speech concerns to W.Va. AG climate probe

CHARLESTON – A federal judge will hear the merits Thursday of a request by two environmental advocacy groups to halt a consumer protection investigation by West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey they say is meant to silence their right to free speech and other constitutional rights. ...