Representatives from the U.S. Postal Service and trash and recycling hauler Republic Services told The Dominion Post on Tuesday that they continue to provide service to the […]
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City exploring demolition of former Bartlett House shelter
MORGANTOWN — The building at 1110 University Ave., which housed the Bartlett House emergency shelter for nearly four decades, is likely coming down. The city of Morgantown […]
FMHA wants to develop affordable housing. County, city should help
Christal Crouso, executive director for the Fairmont-Morgantown Housing Authority, recently told The Dominion Post the FMHA would like to take another look at developing the parcels of […]
Aug. 18 letters to the editor
Morgantown never had ‘housing-first’ In the most recent Morgantown City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, councilors stated Morgantown has used a housing-first strategy for years to […]
Discussions about homelessness still front and center
The subject of homelessness and how best to handle it has been front and center in local discussions for well over a year now, but the conversation […]
Morgantown settles dispute with MPD officers
Details of the settlement agreement between a number of Morgantown Police Department officers and the City of Morgantown were released this week, ending a two-year battle regarding […]
City, county put up emergency funding for Bartlett House payroll
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission and the city of Morgantown are each putting up $17,500 to provide payroll for 16 Bartlett House employees through the end […]
Meanwhile, in Morgantown …
City takes panhandling law off the books Last week, the Morgantown City Council voted to repeal a 2005 panhandling law that is the basis for a federal […]
Someone has to clean up the mess at Bartlett
It’s disheartening to hear that Bartlett House faces a much more dire situation than we thought. It was bad enough when word was just that the emergency […]
Managed camps may solve more than one problem
Perhaps it’s a coincidence or perhaps it’s a synchronicity, but shortly after advocates spoke to Morgantown City Council about the possibility of “managed camps” for unsheltered people […]
