MORGANTOWN -- Fire pension in trouble. That’s the headline The Dominion Post ran atop a Nov. 22, 2003 story explaining that the city of Morgantown’s fire and police pensions represented about $23 million in unfunded liability. The author compared the state of the pension plans at ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown Staff Engineer Drew Gatlin recently told Morgantown City Council the city would need half a billion dollars to complete every sidewalk project on its wish list. It’s going to start with half a million. Lakecrest Construction, out of Fairmont, has been awarded ...
MORGANTOWN -- The city’s public works and maintenance garage has got a lot of problems. The HVAC runs on duct tape, and the building is no longer impenetrable by wind, rain or wayward cats. In other words, “It needs help,” Morgantown Director of Engineering and Public Works Damien ...
MORGANTOWN -- Catholic Charities West Virginia has been tapped to run a winter warming shelter in the former Hope Hill Sobering Center space on the ground floor of Hazel’s House of Hope. Funding for the additional space will be provided in the form of $40,000 each from Morgantown City ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown’s voters will get the final say on whether the city’s camping ban ordinance ever takes effect. In its first meeting since a petition calling for the law’s repeal was deemed sufficient by the city clerk’s office, Morgantown City Council voted Wednesday ...
MORGANTOWN -- It looks as if Morgantown City Council will have the option to either repeal its controversial camping ban ordinance or put it before the city’s voters in April. The city of Morgantown on Tuesday issued a press release stating the Morgantown Coalition for Housing ...