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WVU, grant funds supporting Greenmont pedestrian bridge

MORGANTOWN –  The city of Morgantown is redirecting some of its Community Development Block Grant funding to capitalize on a gift from West Virginia University. Morgantown City Council recently moved a total of $301,248 in fiscal year 2025 CDBG funds to support the creation of a ...

Facilities plan in hand, library system contemplates its future

MORGANTOWN – A center for happiness. That, in broad, undefined terms is a phrase that the majority of some 900 survey takers selected when asked to envision their ideal library space. For the better part of 2025, leadership with the Morgantown Public Library System worked with ...

Street food: Morgantown taking a look at mobile vendor regulations

MORGANTOWN – Morgantown City Hall’s meeting chamber was packed on Dec. 17, 2013, as concerned entrepreneurs and their supporters turned out overwhelmingly opposed to new laws regulating mobile vendors on city streets and sidewalks. The restrictions, which were adopted by council during ...

Parsons replaced after 17 years on the Morgantown Utility Board

MORGANTOWN – After a total of 17 years on the Morgantown Utility Board, Barbara Parsons has been replaced. Morgantown City Council on Tuesday voted to appoint Richard Brooks to the seat. Parsons, the first woman to serve as chair of the utility’s board of directors, spent 10 years ...

Bloom to lead commission, voices hopes, 'major concerns' for 2026

MORGANTOWN – As it does the first meeting each year, the Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday selected a president from among its ranks. As it has multiple times during his 13 years in office, the body tapped Western District representative Tom Bloom to spend the next 12 months in ...