Community center group halts project
FAIRMONT— On Monday the Fairmont Area Community Center Foundation (FACC) announced via a press release that it will discontinue efforts to build a YMCA-operated community center in Fairmont. While the project had been in pursuit for more than a decade, the group said that project delays and escalating costs have made the project unaffordable. Back in 2016, 63 percent of voters in Fairmont supported a local option sales tax of one-half of one percent for 25 years or until $15 million in revenues have been generated for the purpose of funding recreational amenities, trails and/or a ...





