What does one say about âprogressâ amid a 100-year pandemic? It is a question I pondered while writing this column. To be sure, this past year has been driven by decisions about health and safety, quarantine, isolation, testing and vaccines, all the while weighing the academic requisites of higher education.
It has not been an easy time for higher education, nor for anyone in any sector across the world. Over the past year, we have modified and changed many times at Marshall University to accommodate all the challenges that have come our way. And among those exhaustive challenges, we have discovered a hidden strength of our institution â flexibility. To be blunt, higher education institutions are not known for being nimble or for their ability to change quickly, but this year has taught us that Marshall University can, indeed, shift when required and shift quite successfully.
Mar 4, 2021
The North Central West Virginia Airport will soon receive just over $1 million from the Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020. TWV FILE PHOTO
FAIRMONT â After taking hits to revenue and passenger traffic amid the COVID-19 pandemic, West Virginia airports will soon receive economic relief.
U.S. Sens Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Tuesday that $5.6 million dollars will be allocated to 13 airports across the state.
Just over $1 million will be going to the North Central West Virginia Airport in Clarksburg and $13,000 will be going to Fairmont Municipal-Frankman Field Airport. The funds are made possible through the Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020.
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The closure of the airport for a few days following the February ice storm was a topic of discussion among other business items at Tuesday’s Wood County Airport Authority meeting.
An ice storm hit the Mid-Ohio Valley during the week of Feb. 14, which impacted airport business.
To use chemicals to get rid of the ice, Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport manager Glen Kelly said it would cost over $50,000 for one application on the runway and that’s just the beginning of the expense.
“The next night we got about another quarter inch of ice. We have no method here to do chemical deicing. It’s quite expensive,” Kelly said. “We did remove all the snow (but) we couldn’t get enough braking action.”