Dollar store talk stirring again

It seemed like forever ago that we read about a Dollar store taking over the former Huntington Bank building at Camden and Walnut in Monongah. 

Well, it has reached the stage of looking at blueprints, taking photos and going through another round of bids for demolition of the bank building.

The problem? Family Dollar sold the property to Dollar Tree. But Monongah Town Recorder Patty Steele McCombs wrote that "it's still a Family Dollar; it's just that Dollar Tree bought them."

There is a Family Dollar on East Park Avenue in Fairmont and a Dollar General in Worthington and at the Country Club Road shopping center and mall.

Dollar Tree, whose headquarters is Chesapeake, Virginia, has 4,900 stores. Family Dollar, based in Matthews, North Carolina, has 1,400 stores. Dollar General, out of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, has more than 10,000 stores.

Says Patty Steele McCombs: “We’re keeping fingers crossed the project may be taking off soon.”

Dollars to donuts on that, anyone? 

Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974, has another theory about the holdup.

Bev writes:

“Monongah isn't getting a Family Dollar from what I've heard. Dispute about property line with the people who live behind the old bank. So Farmington is supposed to get it instead.”

Bev’s father is Arnold Ray Morgan, Class of 1950, “who has been in Florida since I was 3. I was born in 1955.” Arnold lives in Palatka, Florida.