MORGANTOWN — A terrible grinding and crunching. That’s how an employee of the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties described the sound that prompted her to pull the building alarm at Hazel’s House of Hope Sunday evening. It turns out that sound was most of the ...
Laura Jones worked for Milan Puskar Health Right in the spring of 2003, when the nonprofit clinic packed up and moved from 154 Pleasant St. to its current Spruce Street location. “That was the most stressful time I’ve ever been through and I swore that I would never move Health Right ...
MORGANTOWN — In its first year of operation at Hazel’s House of Hope, the city and county funded warming shelter has had its share of growing pains and generated quite a bit of conversation. That’s not likely to end anytime soon following Tuesday’s Morgantown City Council meeting, ...
MORGANTOWN -- Janette Lewis agrees Hazel’s House of Hope, some four miles from the city’s downtown, is not the ideal location for Morgantown’s emergency warming shelter. That, she said, is why special attention has been paid to the critical issue of transportation – from expanded ...
Now that the temperatures are dipping below 40 degrees, Hazel House (formerly the Ramada Inn on Scott Avenue) is preparing to expand its emergency shelter into a 24/7 warming shelter. We wholeheartedly support the Hazel ...
MORGANTOWN -- A theme ran through much of Tuesday’s regular meeting of Morgantown City Council as the body took up action items addressing food insecurity, rent and utility assistance and support for an emergency warming shelter. The city received two $500,000 grant awards through the ...