Terry L. May (Mingo Messenger) Feb 14, 2022 After getting started an hour late, the Mingo County Commission conducted a three-and-a-half hour meeting last week as the governing body worked its way through an agenda laden with a litany of discussion items. Leasha Johnson, executive director of the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority (MCRA), was the first to address the commission. “I have some good news for you today,” she told the commissioners. That good news came in the f

Bruce justice (Mingo Messenger e Feb 13, 2022 After sitting vacant for nearly five years following Mohawk Flooring shutting down operations at the James H. Harless Industrial Park in May 2017, the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority has approved a lease agreement for the use of the largest of the wood products buildings as well as for one of its smaller buildings. Having always held ownership of the land on which the buildings stand and for which it received lease payments f

By Bruce Justice (Mingo Messenger) Dec 17 2021 As executive director of the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority, Leasha Johnson has seen Mingo County’s good economic times and its not-so-good times, with the majority of the not-so-good periods mainly having manifested themselves during the past 10 years. And that, she says, can be laid directly at the doorstep of the coal mining industry — specifically the sharp downturn in that longstanding savior of the Southern West Virg

By Bruce Justice (Mingo Messenger) Sept 24, 2021 During her report at the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority’s regular monthly meeting last week, Deputy Executive Director Greta Curry brought the board up to date on the progress being made regarding the Mingo County Commission’s recent request that the MCRA assist in helping mitigate the county’s litter problem. Curry said the reason the MCC made the request for the double-team effort was to further the county’s attempts to

By Bruce Justice (Mingo Messenger) Sept 24, 2021 A waterline extension project four years in development for the Twisted Gun Golf Course hit a slight snag after the bidding process for construction was recently finalized. During the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority’s regular meeting last Thursday held via phone conference, Executive Director Leasha Johnson informed the board that the bidding process for the waterline extension’s construction had been completed, with seven

By Bruce Justice (Mingo Messenger) Aug 27, 2021 U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s recently held meeting in Logan County with representatives from a few of the leading manufacturers of ATVs is being considered as a promising venture that down the road could pay off economically for the southern counties of West Virginia. During last Thursday’s regular Mingo County Redevelopment Authority meeting, Executive Director Leasha Johnson presented the board of directors with the details of that