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 allow the city manager to live outside the city with city council’s permission. Currently, the charter says the ...
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 its engineering and public works department despite known issues. The suit was filed by Engineering ...
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 the swirl of topics surrounding a relatively small, but vulnerable, group of ...
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 became “director of engineering and public works.” Now it appears he’ll add “acting city manager” to that ...
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 2010 (Optional I) and then again in 2023 (Optional II), Morgantown has not. Today, the city finds itself with more than ...
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 career in city government. “We wish Kim and his family the best as he welcomes this new chapter of his life,” Mayor Joe ...