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Committee receives updates on tax collections

CHARLESTON – Members of the West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Finance were updated Tuesday on the latest regarding general revenue fund tax collections and federal Rural Health Transformation grants on the last day of interim meetings. Department of Revenue Cabinet ...

Day of Action

ELKINS - More than 260 volunteers took part in 40 local projects during the annual Tygart Valley United Way Day of Action.    The event, which takes place each year during the month of September, is a volunteer project designed to foster service and volunteering in the TVUW's five-county ...

Upshur County grand jury indicts 26

BUCKHANNON – A total of 26 individuals were named in indictments by an Upshur County grand jury this week, on charges including malicious assault, strangulation and incest. Gary Matthew Gundersen, 43, of Buckhannon, was indicted for soliciting a minor via computer; two counts of use of obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor; failure to provide notice of change to required sex offender registration information, lifetime registrant; and sexual assault in the third degree, all felonies. Lee Auston Godbey, 29, of Summersville, was indicted on two counts of distribution and ...

Inmate gets drug charge while in jail

ELKINS – An inmate has been charged for allegedly being found with drugs on his person within the Tygart Valley Regional Jail. Harley Blaine Croston, 40, is charged with possession of a controlled substance by an inmate, a felony. He is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a ...

Vote set for using City Hall properties as loan collateral

ELKINS — Elkins City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance which, if passed in the final reading, would approve using the City Hall parking lot and the Elkins Fire Department as collateral for financing of the City Hall renovation project. During the most recent City Council ...

Benson touts ‘Mountaineer momentum’

MORGANTOWN – Touting “Mountaineer momentum,” WVU President Michael Benson offered a bit of a progress report Monday during his second State of the University address. “We are in a state of intentional forward motion,” he said during the roughly 30-minute address offered prior to ...