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Looking back at how the WVU 2016 recruiting class turned out.

The Greene County sheriff’s office now has a new K-9 officer on duty as well as a new K-9 vehicle. Sheriff Marcus Simms said the K-9 officer, an 18-month-year-old Belgian Malinois named Maugli, specializes in explosive detection. Funding for Maugli came from through the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA). Cpl. Nicholas Gustovich of the sheriff’s office will become the K-9 handler. He underwent training in Pittsburgh for five days a week for 12 weeks at the Pittsburgh Police K-9 Academy. Gustovich and Maugli received their certification in patrol and explosives-gun detec...

Cheers: Twenty-seven hotspots throughout Fayette County are helping those with spotty or no broadband coverage reliably get online. Using $5.3 million in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, county officials established a line of hotspots along the Route 40 corridor. During a ceremonial ribbon cutting earlier this week in Gibbon Glade, the commissioners talked about the importance of continuing to increase broadband access in the communities where it’s sorely lacking. The pandemic – and a forced jump to online learning – certainly highligh...

Greene County Sheriff Marcus Simms announced he will run for another term in office. “As a conservative Democrat, I will continue to have the sheriff’s office always put our citizens’ needs and rights first,” Simms said. This would be his first full four-year term. Simms was appointed interim sheriff 2019 following the death of Brian Tennant, and won a special election that year to fill the remainder of Tennant’s term, set the expire at the end of this year. Throughout the pandemic, Simms said, he and the members of the office looked for new ways to assist the communi...

Greene County commissioners have approved a contract for a Williamsburg roofing company to replace the roof of the county prison, at a total cost of $229,000.