MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown has countersued longtime employee Lamar Johnson, claiming the discrimination lawsuit he filed against the city in August violated the terms of a 2020 confidential […]
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Services balancing delivery, employee safety
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 best of their […]
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 on Tuesday opened […]
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 land it owns […]
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 address homelessness. While […]
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 has taken a […]
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 officer compensation and […]
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 of the month. […]
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 lawsuit against the […]
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 shelter out at […]
