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FAIRMONT — Grants make life easier for small municipalities and the people who call them home.

MANNINGTON — Abandoned buildings are a hardship for many of the small municipalities around West Virginia, and Mannington is making it a priority to clean them up.

FAIRMONT — Sen. Mike Caputo, D-13, has delivered on one of his biggest promises this legislative session.

For almost a century, the opening of the Mannington pool in Hough Park has been a symbol to the Marion County community that summer is here.

For almost a century, the opening of the Mannington pool in Hough Park has been a symbol to the Marion County community that summer is here.

FAIRMONT — At the start of his 18th year in service to Marion County, Commission President Randy Elliot announced he will retire at the end of his current term this

1 of 2 Customers of the Fairview water system were forced to use bottled water in 2019 when health officials detected E. coli in the water supply. Here, Tom Triplett, a street department worker, stands by a stack of cases of bottled water. TWV FILE PHOTO In this Sept. 2019 file photo, Fairview Elementary School Principal Mel Coleman Jr. stands by a water fountain at the school that was forced to be covered during the town’s E. coli scare. TWV FILE PHOTO FAIRMONT â�...

Walter H. Clausson Walter Howard Clausson, aka Pop, Walt, Pop Pop, and/or Uncle Howard, was born January 5, 1930 in Beaver Falls, PA, the 9th child of William Allen and Ethel Mae Moon Clausson. The son of a farmer and mechanic, with eight other siblings Walt’s childhood was very humble. He remembered wearing burlap potato sacks for clothing and kicking the snow off the bottom of the bed, that came through the slats of the wall on cold wintry nights on the Pennsylvania farm where they lived. D...