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Morgantown sales tax revenue surpasses $10 million in FY 2025

MORGANTOWN -- The city of Morgantown collected more than $10 million in sales taxes in the current fiscal year.  It’s the first time collections have reached eight digits since the city utilized Home Rule to implement the additional 1% tax in 2020. Earlier this week, Morgantown City ...

Has Morgantown conducted its last standalone election?

MORGANTOWN — The current iteration of the Morgantown City Charter was approved April 29, 1977. Among the municipal powers and responsibilities outlined in the document are details explaining exactly when and how the city is to conduct elections — on the last Tuesday in April each ...

Morgantown voices opposition to Moore's Stop CCP VISAs Act

MORGANTOWN – Morgantown City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution opposing the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act – also known as the Stop CCP VISAs Act. Technically, the resolution is in support of a letter penned to the bill’s ...

Morgantown Council members take police review board to task

MORGANTOWN – Morgantown Civilian Police Review and Advisory Board Chairman Richard Burks stood before Morgantown City Council this week to deliver the board’s mandatory annual report. He ended up on the hot seat. Members of council - primarily Louise Michael and Danielle Trumble - ...

Very cold and very wet: A West Virginia pothole story

MORGANTOWN -- It’s been wetter than normal. It’s been colder than normal. And if that’s not depressing enough on its own, those are the exact conditions necessary for a bumper crop of car-busting, mood-altering potholes. “I have not seen potholes deeper than what we have ...

Kawecki will not seek a sixth council term in city's 2nd Ward

MORGANTOWN -- With a brief, eight-word statement at the end of Tuesday’s Morgantown City Council meeting, longtime 2nd Ward Councilor Bill Kawecki officially ended any speculation about his plans for the upcoming April election. “It’s not my intention to seek another term,” he ...

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