ANNOUNCEMENT — Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced $3.4 million in grants for water and sewer projects during a visit to the Public Safety Building in Fairmont on Thursday afternoon. -- Jim Bissett

FAIRMONT — Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a $3.4 million outlay in grants for water and sewer projects in Marion County and across the region Thursday afternoon.

In the process, though, he also had to address questions about the earlier sale of four state-run health care facilities, plus the state’s new partnership with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Effort – which prompted protesters to gather in front of the Public Safety Building in Fairmont, where he made his remarks.

State money, meanwhile, is arriving by way of the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council

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