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FSU BOG approves $54M budget
Includes one-time $1.25M supplement from state
FAIRMONT — The Fairmont State University Board of Governors approved the institution’s budget worth nearly $54 million Thursday.
When the different funds are added together, the BOG approved a budget of $53,887,548.25 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. That budget allows for just more than $2 million in salaries, but does not include any across-the-board raises. Only those raises mandated by state law were part of the budget. That’s in line with this year’s legislative action, in which no raises for state employees were approved under the current economic conditions.
The coming year’s budget was enhanced by a special appropriation of $1.25 million from the state Legislature. BOG Chairman Andy Kniceley announced at the meeting the area’s legislators and the governor had worked hard to get the money, which was a one-time supplement to the university’s budget.
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Back to brick surface
The Fourth Street Bridge is open.
Motorists wanting to cross between Fairmont Avenue and Locust Avenue no longer have to search for creative shortcuts to avoid the enormous hill on Seventh Street or a plethora of stoplights.
“I am very pleased that it is once again open,” said Councilman Chuck Warner, who took a trip across the bridge a few hours after it opened on Thursday morning.
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Waterline break quickly repaired
Business was interrupted downtown Thursday by a waterline break.
City of Fairmont Utilities Manager David Sago said the break occurred in a 10-inch line on Jackson Street at about 9:30 a.m.
City crews were on the scene in less than 25 minutes, Sago said.
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Haymond Street work set Tuesday
Motorists driving on Fairmont’s East Side next Tuesday will be running into some delays while state road crews prepare a portion of Haymond Street for a fresh coat of asphalt in about six months.
This project is part of the developing Gateway Connector Highway, the 1.5-mile, four-lane roadway set to connect downtown Fairmont to Interstate 79, which is set for completion at the end of this year.
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‘Out of the panic period’
Economists provided their insights into the future of the local and national economy Wednesday at the annual Morgantown Economic Outlook Conference.
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‘It’s fun to be Irish’
“I may not be Irish, but it’s fun to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day,” said Charles Long as he sat down for lunch at McAteer’s restaurant Wednesday.
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Fairmont hopes to add to K-9 unit
The Fairmont City Police Department has plans to introduce a pair of furry four-legged officers to its fleet in the near future.
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East schools focus on transition
Schools in the East attendance area have truly embraced a new initiative.
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Former county teacher acquitted
Curtis Boylen, a former Marion County teacher accused of assaulting his former stepdaughter in 2007, was acquitted of all charges earlier this week following a four-day trial in Marion County Circuit Court.
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Arrest ‘expected’ in Fairmont woman’s death
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday denied that a suspect in the case of the death of a 45-year-old Fairmont woman is “at large.”
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Evidence in dispute
According to testimony delivered by a Marion County sheriff’s deputy Tuesday, 21-year-old Jason Clay Anderson showed “no emotion” while answering questions just hours after his infant son was pronounced dead on the afternoon of June 23, 2007.
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