dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Trey Kay, host of the West Virginia Public Broadcasting podcast Us & Them – told a group of nearly 100 people gathered in the Mountainlair Gluck Theater about a homeless man named Randy he met in Charleston. Randy told him he'd been ...
Public parks belong to the public, right? A billionaire can’t cordon off an acre of Golden Gate Park for his private party. But can a poor person — or anyone who claims they can’t afford a home — take over public spaces where children play and families experience nature? That is ...
MORGANTOWN -- Wearing stickers with slogans like “Housing Not Handcuffs,” “No Housing No Peace” and “Poverty Is Not Criminal,” an overflow crowd showed up at Tuesday’s Morgantown City Council meeting intent on making the issues facing the city’s unhoused population council’s ...
Perhaps it’s a coincidence or perhaps it’s a synchronicity, but shortly after advocates spoke to Morgantown City Council about the possibility of “managed camps” for unsheltered people on city property, the Morgantown Riverfront Revitalization Task Force reported to council that ...
MORGANTOWN -- If you were in Morgantown during the summer and/or fall of 2020, chances are you’ve heard of Diamond Village. That was the name given to an encampment of unhoused individuals that began on private property before moving to an adjacent piece of city land in the ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK Homeless individuals living along 18th Street, across from the Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center in Wheeling, have until this afternoon to move to a new exempted site. The new site, located off the maintenance trail along Wheeling Creek, is owned by the City of ...