Almost $4 million in federal funding headed to West Virginia’s northern panhandle

A group of dignitaries, including U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and U.S. Rep. David McKinley, both R-W.Va., gathered along Three Springs Drive in Weirton to announce the funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

In offering a welcome, Pat Ford, executive director of the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle, said the projects being planned, and the funding provided, would not have been possible without the growing cooperative efforts between local, state and federal officials.