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2 days ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | David Beard
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MORGANTOWN – Several hundred people turned out at the Erickson Alumni Center Monday afternoon for an open house to learn about the proposed NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic Resiliency Link project. They talked with NextEra employees and viewed the rows of posters displaying the possible routes and how the project will progress.
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2 days ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – Several hundred people turned out at the Erickson Alumni Center Monday afternoon for an open house to learn about the proposed NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic Resiliency Link project. They talked with NextEra employees and viewed the rows of posters displaying the possible routes and how the project will progress.
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1 week ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – West Virginia American Water’s quest to channel most of its customers into paperless billing has failed – with the Public Service Commission this week denying the request WVAW put forth last June. WVAW wanted to turn its “opt in” paperless billing option to “opt out,” saying it’s convenient, has been successful in other parent company territories and could save lots of money.
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1 week ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – Uncertainty remains the key word as WVU continues to work out how Trump administration executive actions will affect the university. WVU Vice President for Research Fred King and WVU President Gordon Gee both addressed that problem for the Faculty Senate on Monday. King spoke in the context of grants and contracts facing possible termination. “Since the end of January it’s been very emotional,” he said. On any given Friday, he said, there’s a new executive order.
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1 week ago | 
finance.yahoo.com | David Beard
Unlock stock picks and a broker-level newsfeed that powers Wall Street. David Beard, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Fri, May 2, 2025, 10:34 PM 3 min read May 2—dbeard @dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN — Hope Gas filed with the Public Service Commission this week to increase its base rates. This is its first base rate case since 2020.
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1 week ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center earned an A in Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade spring 2025 report. This is Mon Health’s first A since 2019 – improving from a B in fall 2024 and a C in spring 2024. The Leapfrog Group is a safety-based nonprofit formed by major employers and health care groups and issues its safety grades twice a year, in spring and fall. Mon Medical Center was the only West Virginia hospital to receive an A in the spring grading.
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1 week ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – Hope Gas filed with the Public Service Commission this week to increase its base rates. This is its first base rate case since 2020. Hope said in its April 30 announcement of the case that the impact will vary depending on whether the customer was already served by Hope or by one of the six companies it acquired in 2023 and 2024. The proposed monthly rate increase would range from $21.10 to $33.74.
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1 week ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
[email protected] – Hope Gas filed with the Public Service Commission this week to increase its base rates. This is its first base rate case since 2020. Hope said in its April 30 announcement of the case that the impact will vary depending on whether the customer was already served by Hope or by one of the six companies it acquired in 2023 and 2024. The proposed monthly rate increase would range from $21.10 to $33.74.
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4 weeks ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
MORGANTOWN – Part of the city was hit by a power outage Tuesday afternoon. The Mon Power outage page showed 1,941 of 49,869 customers without power. A call to the Mon Power outage line at 1 p.m. Gave an estimate of 4 p.m. To have power restored. Elsewhere in Monongalia County, the town of Hundred had seven of 383 customers without power, and Granville had one of 526.
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1 month ago | 
dominionpost.com | David Beard
MORGANTOWN – The 2025 legislative session wrapped up at midnight Saturday, and a number of bills we followed along the way completed their journeys. Most prominent among them is HB 3279. Over the objections of WVU and Marshall and others who said it addresses a problem that doesn’t exist, it turns the student, faculty and staff members of college and university boards of governors across the state into non-voting advisory members.
