MORGANTOWN — A hop, skip and a jump. London, Paris, Rome. “We’ve got 358 destinations throughout the world,” Layne Watson said Tuesday morning at the Morgantown Municipal Airport. “Literally, you […]
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Morgantown Council to consider Davis for interim city manager
MORGANTOWN — During his time with the city, Damien Davis has worked under a couple different titles. Starting in 2008, he was “city engineer.” In 2021, he became “director of […]
Pension tension: City leadership nearing a decision on unfunded promises
MORGANTOWN — While nearly every city in West Virginia has already taken the police and fire pension funding lifelines first offered by the West Virginia Legislature in 2010 (Optional I) […]
Morgantown Mayor Abu-Ghannam receives national recognition
MORGANTOWN — When the National League of Cities unveiled its inaugural list of Under 40 Impact Award winners during its Nov. 13 Centennial City Summit in Tampa, Fla., Morgantown Mayor […]
MUB’s Cheat Lake, Popenoe Run projects ready to begin
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Utility Board General Manager Mike McNulty said it’s taken a tremendous effort from a small army of people, but financing for the Cheat Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant […]
Bail set at $1 million following Westover child porn arrest
Monongalia County Magistrate Sandy Holepit set bail at $1 million Friday for a Westover man charged with six counts of distribution and exhibiting material depicting minors engaged in sexual conduct. […]
Lombardi awarded ice arena work, BOPARC to seek ‘community forest’
MORGANTOWN — Lombardi, a general contractor based in Follansbee, has been selected to construct improvements to the Morgantown Ice Arena. The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners approved the firm’s […]
A net positive: City, county support needle exchange program
MORGANTOWN — Difficult, counterintuitive, unsightly. Those were some of the words used by members of the Monongalia County Commission to describe Milan Puskar Health Right’s needle exchange program, known as […]
Green Bag project awarded for 2025 construction season
MORGANTOWN — Kingwood-based Mountaineer Contractors seems to have cornered the market on Morgantown’s controversial roundabout projects. The same firm that was awarded a $2,091,104 contract in September to build an […]
Study to decide fate of coveted pedestrian connection
MORGANTOWN – A pedestrian bridge spanning Don Knotts Boulevard would create a safe, direct connection between a significant portion of the city’s population and both the riverfront and rail-trail network. […]
