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Morgan County has been awarded a total of $461,926 for new radios from two grants from the Fiscal Year 2006 Homeland Security Grant Program.

Members of the Morgan County Planning Commission continued to refine changes to the county's subdivision rules at a workshop session last Tuesday, October 9.

About 30 people packed the Morgan County Commission room to hear a two-hour debate about zoning last Thursday morning, October 4. In the end, the commissioners took no action.

Barbara Tutor requested that the commissioners have the county's planning board put cluster development rules on hold and begin a study on land-use zoning.

The Governor's Office has finished tabulating the results of September's statewide poll for an official roadway welcome sign slogan. The top three choices are likely to be familiar to most West Virginians.

The leading slogans, in alphabetical order, are:

West Virginia Division of Highways has once again postponed the repaving of Wilkes Street between Fairfax Street and Route 9 west. Work was originally scheduled to start on the street in mid-July, but was delayed and rescheduled for the beginning of next year.

In mid-September, Mayor Susan Webster was told by Highway Superintendent John Coleman that the project would be completed by April 30, 2008. Webster had asked the DOH to schedule a meeting with the town and Wilkes Street residents to discuss the project.

Maryland Highway officials have decided that a crack in a support of the U. S. 522 Bridge at Hancock does not create a danger to motorists using the bridge.

Engineers have inspected the crack and determined that it is not structural in nature, said Charles Gischlar, a spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA).

Morgan County School Board president Laura Smith was one of three community leaders recognized as 2007 Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of the Shawnee Council.

Smith, Journal editor Maria Lorensen and Hospice of the Panhandle board member Barbara Pichot were honored at a September 27 luncheon at the Martinsburg Holiday Inn.

Dawn and Randy Beal appeared before Bath Town Council October 2 to discuss issues confronting residents of Rockwell Street and Rockwell Circle.

The Beals hosted a block party on Saturday, September 29 to get neighbors together to talk about community problems.

The Apple Butter Parade Committee has selected fifth generation farmer Philip W. (Phil) Harmison to be Grand Marshal of the parade in Berkeley Springs on Saturday, October 6.

Recently Harmison, dressed in his work clothes talked |about farming, his family, the land and life in Morgan County. He was supported by a cane due to an injury to his leg suffered while taking down a tree limb. "I still get up to feed the cows before the sun comes up over Sleepy Creek Mountain," Harmison, 72, said, as he leaned against a fence under a shade tree.

A Great Cacapon man is in police custody on charges of attempted murder and malicious wounding after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend multiple times in their home last Thursday, September 27.

According to police, Morgan County 911 got a call around 3:40 p.m. from a woman who had been stabbed, was losing a lot of blood and had managed to get away from her attacker. She was calling from a locked bedroom, and said her attacker was still in the house and trying to get to her, according to a police report.