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Police chief: Downtown issues face everyone

Whether it’s due to overdoses, public intoxication, arrests, mental health calls or frequent rides to the hospital, Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston said there are individuals frequenting the downtown with whom his department has interacted more than 100 times since January. The issue, he explained, is complex and goes far beyond law enforcement. Preston spoke to The Dominion Post about concerns raised by business owners frustrated by the amount of aggressive, criminal and otherwise unwanted behavior they see daily in the city’s downtown business district. Specifically, ...

WVU students host ‘Climate Solutions Fair’

While large marches through the streets of major cities caught global attention, Morgantown took its own approach to the global, youth-led climate strike on Friday. Mountaineers attended a “Climate Solutions Fair” at Woodburn Circle as part of the international call for political leaders to take action on climate change. While conscious of the global connection, attention at the fair was squarely placed on local issues and local solutions. Visitors to the fair walked between tables where groups like the Office of Sustainability signed people up for a campus tree planting project. ...

Morgantown Marathon returns Sunday

As the old “Saturday Night Live” sketch with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken decreed, there are times in life … when you’ve just gotta have more cowbell. Especially if you’re running in the 2019 Morgantown Marathon on Sunday. But that’s getting ahead of the pace. First, an overview: This will be the fifth edition of the run that snakes, swoops and soars through the University City and its seven wards. Proceeds go to Operation Welcome Home, the veterans outreach organization in Mylan Park that is there for soldiers returning from war zones and transitioning to ...

Arraignments include Morgantown Motel robbery, Sheetz parking lot attack

Twenty-three defendants in cases assigned to Judge Debra Scudiere following their indictments by the September 2019 term of the Monongalia County grand jury appeared in court pleaded not guilty on Thursday. Nicholas Curtis, 27, was among them. The grand jury indicted him for first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit a felony. Curtis is accused of taking part in a robbery at the Morgantown Motel on June 26. He was arrested June 26 in South Park by the Morgantown Police Department. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department responded to the robbery about 1 a.m. that morning and ...

W.Va. jobless rate drops to 4.6%

West Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.6% in August, the lowest for the state since October 2008 when it was 4.4%, Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday. “Businesses are realizing West Virginia is the diamond in the rough that they have missed in a lot of ways,” said Justice in a statement. “Now, with that realization, we hope to see more and more businesses choose West Virginia as a place to grow and bring more jobs along with them.” Despite the decline, West Virginia still has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, according to August ...

Judge Scudiere kicks off election campaign

Judge Debra Scudiere used to start her talks by telling her follow attorneys how much she loved being a lawyer. “Now that I’m in my dream job I can sincerely say I love being your judge,” Scudiere told the gathered crowd at Erickson Alumni Center on Thursday during her election campaign kickoff. Scudiere is the only one of Monongalia County’s three Circuit Court judges who has to run for election in 2020, she explained. She was appointed by Gov. Jim Justice to fill the void left by Judge Russell Clawges when he retired in January. Whichever judge wins the election will hold the ...