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The Morgan County Commissioners heard a proposal at their April 6 meeting from a company that wants to build four wireless communications towers and use several existing towers throughout the county.

Vista PSC LLC is a partner of Verizon. The towers would bring Verizon Wireless cell phone service to the area and also allow for future wireless internet service.

The West Virginia Supreme Court will hear the appeals

of two Morgan County criminal cases when the court sits

The Town of Bath Historic Landmark Commission re-cently welcomed Jean Helsley to the commission.

The commission is completeing a final review of over 150 properties involved in the historic survey of the Town of Bath, which was conducted by Taylor and Taylor Association and funded by the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.

Only a few candidates announced in the first week of filing season for Paw Paw town office.

Ken Crites filed for mayor, a post now held by Julie Kidwell. Elected as town recorder in 2005, Kidwell became mayor when Jeff Palmer resigned last fall.

Thirteen people were indicted by the Morgan County Grand Jury last week for crimes including the sexual assault of a teenaged girl and the malicious assault of two police officers, as well as burglaries, thefts and frauds.

The Grand Jury met on Tuesday, April 3, with Circuit Judge Gina Groh presiding.

Paw Paw Mayor Julie Kidwell is asking residents and commuters in the Paw Paw area to band together and request better cellular phone coverage.

Kidwell has created a petition to send to cellular companies. She is encouraging anyone who lives, travels, works or shops in the extended Paw Paw area to fill out the petition and send it to Paw Paw Town Hall or directly to their cellular phone company.

At their Monday, April 2 meeting, Mayor Susan Webster read the Bath Town Council a letter that she received from State Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox replying to her letter requesting that the resurfacing of Wilkes Street remain on the state's schedule.

Mattox wrote that the Wilkes Street project was scheduled to start July 2007 and continue through the end of the year. This is the project to resurface the portion of Wilkes Street from Fairfax Street to Rt. 9 West.

The Morgan County Commissioners unanimously passed a noise nuisance ordinance at their Friday, April 6 meeting. The ordinance takes effect on May 1.

Before the vote, Commission President Glen Stotler suggested several minor changes to the proposed county law, and asked Commissioners Tommy Swaim and Brenda Hutchinson for their comments.

As part of the overall effort to keep Maryland's bridges safe and in good condition, the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) will begin next week a $3.4 million bridge cleaning and painting project to maintain the US 522 (Warfordsburg Road) bridge over the Potomac River, C & O Canal and the CSX Tracks in Hancock, Washington County. The project should be completed by fall 2008, weather permitting.

Scheduled work includes painting the bridge superstructure (the steel beams that support the road surface on the bridge). Paint containment systems will be in place to prevent paint spray and dripping.

The Morgan County School Board set their tax rate for the next fiscal year at a special budget workshop last Tuesday, March 27,

In the absence of board member Larry Omps, the board voted 4-0 to keep their excess levy rate at 90%.