In collaboration with the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, Health Right will coordinate a street count of individuals experiencing homelessness beginning at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 […]
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Lewis: Location of warming shelter not an attempt to hide city’s homeless population
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, […]
Mon Commission approves $200,000 for Milan Puskar Health Right relocation
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday approved $200,000 to assist Milan Puskar Health Right as it prepares to move out of its longtime home on […]
City lays out plans for ARPA dollars
MORGANTOWN — One million dollars for flood mitigation and $800,000 for the relocation of Milan Puskar Health Right out of the city’s downtown are among the items […]
Morgantown Cleanup Project, Health Right team up to offer sharps cleanup training
MORGANTOWN — When Morgantown Deputy Mayor Danielle Trumble started the Morgantown Cleanup Project Facebook group, she expected a handful of friends to sign on. In less than […]
One step forward, 2 steps back
The good news last week was Milan Puskar Health Right finally received the sharps containers it ordered over a year ago; the bad news was a judge […]
Postcast 80 – July 16, 2021
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Health Right hopeful public sharps containers will be up soon
MORGANTOWN — In October of 2019, former Milan Puskar Health Right Peer Recovery Coach Dani Ludwig approached Morgantown City Council about the placement of sharps containers in […]
Give the loiterers somewhere to be
Yesterday, we discussed how downtown Morgantown turns into the Wild West after dark. The rough and tumble nature of the bar patrons and the frequency of violence […]
Gov. Justice must veto needle exchange bill
Only Gov. Justice’s veto stands between the people and SB 334, regarding needle exchange programs, and the deaths it may cause. We’re not being melodramatic, though it […]
