It’s a blustery fall afternoon and a growing group of individuals is pooling near the gated access to the Morgantown Utility Board’s Flegal Dam. Just beyond the […]
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City, county leaders tout positive working relationship
MORGANTOWN — It takes a couple minutes to walk from Morgantown City Hall to the Monongalia County Courthouse, but there have been times when leadership within the […]
City creating second safe surrender site, cutting taxes for some small businesses
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown is taking advantage of a recent change in state code to create the city’s second safe surrender site. Safe surrender sites […]
Firefighters’ union ‘adamantly opposed’ to city manager residency change
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Firefighters IAFF Local 313 has weighed in on a potential charter change going before the city’s voters next month. The change in question would […]
Lawsuit: City failed to stop sexual harassment
MORGANTOWN — A lawsuit filed Jan.30 in Monongalia County Circuit Court claims the city of Morgantown failed to take “meaningful corrective action” to stop sexual harassment in […]
A look back at the top city, county stories of 2024
A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like […]
Morgantown Council to consider Davis for interim city manager
MORGANTOWN — During his time with the city, Damien Davis has worked under a couple different titles. Starting in 2008, he was “city engineer.” In 2021, he […]
Pension tension: City leadership nearing a decision on unfunded promises
MORGANTOWN — While nearly every city in West Virginia has already taken the police and fire pension funding lifelines first offered by the West Virginia Legislature in […]
Morgantown Manager Kim Haws announces Dec. 20 departure
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown announced Wednesday that City Manager Kim Haws will end his tenure with the city on Dec. 20, concluding a nearly 40-year […]
City manager transition will likely include ‘designated official’
MORGANTOWN — If your city manager leaves, the expected course of action would be to appoint the assistant city manager to fill that role on an interim […]
