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Westover spring cleaning date set, improvements coming to city’s park

MORGANTOWN — Pay raises for Westover’s city employees, spring cleaning, improvements to Westover Park, and a complaint about the recently completed annexation were some of the topics discussed at the city’s first council meeting since March 18. The April 1 meeting was canceled because Mayor Dave Johnson was sick. A tentative date of May 13 – 17 was set for the city’s annual spring clean up. Homeowners can put a pick-up truck load worth of stuff for collection the night before their regular garbage day. However, if the city doesn’t receive its new garbage truck in time, ...

MUB developing land management plan to protect source water

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Utility Board is implementing a land protection and management program in an effort to protect the source water that flows into its system. During Monday’s regular meeting of the MUB board, Kendra Hatcher of Downstream Strategies presented a draft report on the ...

WVU Medicine set to add 5th hospital in 2 years

MORGANTOWN — Twenty-three years later, the major mission to increase West Virginians’ access to healthcare remains largely unchanged. While the mission continues, some of what WVU Health System is doing to fulfill it has evolved. WVU Health System (WVU Medicine), on the verge of ...

Monongalia County man admits to selling methamphetamine

MORGANTOWN — Khareem Sampson, of Morgantown, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced in a release. Sampson, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to distributing methamphetamine ...

Detectives arrest three in Morgantown child exploitation sting

MORGANTOWN — Three men from three states thought they were going to meet and have sex with a 15-year-old girl were arrested over the weekend according to police. Erik Layhue, 29, of Lemont Furnace, Pa., Christopher L. Dignan, 58, of Cumberland, Md., and Christopher Eldridge, 26, of ...