A Dollar Store by any name would be sweet for Monongah, but . . .

The situation for when a Family Dollar Store pops up in Monongah on the old Huntington Bank property at Camden Avenue and Walnut Street is murkier than a political debate.

Monongah Town Recorder Patty Steele McCombs’ latest posting is that the Family Dollar development manager, a Mr. Kitzmiller, says that the Monongah and Farmington stores will be opened by February 2016.

It’s been a few years, or so it seems, since the bank property was razed. And Monongah is caught in a buzzsaw of national corporations.

Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar in July for $9.2 billion. But the Federal Trade Commission required the enlarged Dollar Tree to sell 330 of the Family Dollar stores to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in an attempt to prevent a monopoly among the super-discount retailers.

So the Monongah property, which has gone from Family Dollar to Dollar Tree, might become a tiny cog in the Sycamore Partners cog.

Mayor Greg Vandetta and other town officials are rightfully perturbed that anyone would lay the blame at their feet. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Wheelers and dealers in Matthews, North Carolina and Chesapeake, Virginia, are deciding what will happen in Monongah, and when, or if it ever will happen.

The only thing that Monongah citizens can do is wait for the money elks to stop locking horns before they decide the fate of the Monongah dollar store, by whatever name it winds up with.

If it does happen it will make the Running of the Bulls in Spain look like a stroll in the park.

Because “Dollar” is in the name of stores from different companies, here’s how it breaks down in Marion and Harrison counties:

Family Dollar: Fairhills Plaza, 609 Bellview Boulevard, Fairmont; 917 E. Park Avenue, Fairmont; 204 S. Pike Street, Shinnston.

Dollar General: 1228 Country Club Road, Fairmont; 4584 Freedom Highway, Worthington; Middletown Hall, White Hall; 218 Adams Street, Fairmont.