The Fairmont City Council tabled another project at its meeting this week. This one is for new pickleball courts which may or may not come to fruition. For some background, a few months ago the council approved a capital improvement project to move the courts from their current location at ...

Thumbs Up Council OKs phase two of harvesting The Fairmont City Council approved going ahead with the second phase of a contract with Premier Lake Harvesting for Curly Leaf Pondweed removal and disposal this week. In their report to the board, it was shared that during phase one more than ...

An added agenda item on Tuesday night’s Fairmont City Council meeting agenda ended up being a 45 minute back and forth between council members and staff. This wasn’t the first time there’s been a heated sort of “he said, she said” discussion between the groups at a council meeting, ...

On Tuesday’s opinion page there was a column from Rich Lowry titled “Our screen culture increasingly can’t read” that struck a chord with me. In it he cites a New York Times survey that said 80 percent of teachers said that students at their schools have a device assigned to them and ...

The latest special Fairmont City Council meeting largely centered on whether Council Member Britney Kawecki had disclosed private personnel data of a current or former city employee to members of the public. The method in which this information was supposedly shared? Social media, Facebook to ...

Sudden and unexpected loss is always hard to grasp, especially when it’s of a young person. Loss around the holidays season is always a little harder, too. The Fairmont community, then, has recently experienced a triple whammy of sorts and people are reeling, trying to come to terms with the ...