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FMHA wants to develop affordable housing. County, city should help

Christal Crouso, executive director for the Fairmont-Morgantown Housing Authority, recently told The Dominion Post the FMHA would like to take another look at developing the parcels of land it owns in Monongalia County. The FMHA is an organization that exists to help people with housing ...

Meanwhile, in Morgantown …

City takes panhandling law off the books Last week, the Morgantown City Council voted to repeal a 2005 panhandling law that is the basis for a federal lawsuit against the city brought by Mountain State Justice. City Code Section 371.10 is a true “panhandling” prohibition in a way ...

Someone has to clean up the mess at Bartlett

It’s disheartening to hear that Bartlett House faces a much more dire situation than we thought. It was bad enough when word was just that the emergency shelter out at Hazel’s House of Hope might have to close; it’s devastating to hear that the entire program — including the long-term ...

A 911 center Mon County deserves

WESTOVER -- The new state-of-the-art facility built for Monongalia County Emergency Management Agency (MECCA) was officially opened Wednesday afternoon with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the Monongalia County Commission.  MECCA, the agency that answers all 911 and emergency calls in the ...

City’s fire levy request faux pas

There are few things we are taught in “career readiness” courses in high school and college that, while technically about submitting resumés, applies equally well to much of adult and professional correspondence: Address it to the appropriate individual or entity, and make sure to submit ...

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