In this special edition of “The Good, the Bad and the Stupid,” we will honor a number of bills that could have improved West Virginia for the better but are now officially dead. All the bills we mentioned Wednesday saw no movement on cross-over day, and all have died in ...
One man is in custody and another in the hospital after an alleged attempted murder at the 24/7 storage units off of Smithtown Road on Sunday. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department was initially dispatched to the storage unit for a report of a suspicious person. According to a ...
Thanks for making MLK Day event a success On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, I want to thank everyone who made our 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Jan. 16 a success. We could not do this without the financial support of the City of Morgantown. We ...
When frigid temperatures struck Morgantown over the Christmas weekend, organizations and volunteer groups struggled to find accommodations for 110 people who are homeless. Sixty people hunkered down in the emergency warming shelter; another 20 had been placed in hotel rooms; and 30 waited out ...
by Shannon McNicholas This past week, a girl — maybe five or six — and her dad walked up to me in an alley occupied by a significant number of unhoused folks and handed me a note that said, “Thank you for being you. Hugs.” Although the note made my day, I suspect that it was ...
We were disappointed by the comments made at the Sept. 20 Morgantown City Council meeting regarding the “loitering issue” downtown, particularly in proximity to the Morgantown Public Library. One speaker and one council member said they no longer take their children to the library ...