by Paige Looney It feels like the only thing we’re talking about is inflation — and for good reason. Americans are feeling the rising cost of inflation in every aspect […]
Tag: homelessness
Tearing of our social fabric
PITTSBURGH — When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Va., the granite monument […]
April 3 letters to the editor
Save a life. Be an organ donor Every day, more people join the national organ transplant waiting list. By the end of this week, more than 140 Americans will die […]
Crittenton Services, Lauren’s Wish, Catholic Charities join agencies at Hazel’s House of Hope
MORGANTOWN — An addiction triage center, a behavioral health provider and the largest private social service agency in West Virginia are adding their names to the roster of agencies making […]
Skaff’s homeless bill would limit encampment locations
CHARLESTON — House Minority Leader Doug Skaff told members of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday kids walking to school shouldn’t have to fear because there’s a homeless encampment nearby. Skaff, […]
Sheriff’s deputies charge Washington man with breaking and entering
Monongalia County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Washington man now living at an area homeless shelter Wednesday. According to a press release from Sheriff Perry Palmer, deputies responded to Tractor Supply, […]
Manchin announces money for homeless
Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $2,134,042 from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to counties across West Virginia […]
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, she said, is […]
Speakers call on Morgantown Council to create emergency shelter downtown
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown needs an emergency warming shelter downtown. Representatives from the Morgantown Human Rights Commission, the ACLU of West Virginia, the Morgantown/Kingwood Branch of the NAACP […]
‘True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar’
Abraham could have asked for anything. The Make-A-Wish folks stood ready to make a dream come true for the 13-year-old boy, who has aplastic anemia, a life-threatening blood disorder. But […]
