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 […]
Tag: warming shelter
Warming shelter opens for winter 2022-23
As the chill of winter sets in, several organizations and individuals have come together to manage and operate a cold weather shelter. The Monongalia County warming shelter […]
Mon Commission joins Morgantown Council in backing emergency warming shelter
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday approved $38,041 to help fund a warming shelter at Hazel’s House of Hope. The allocation matches the funding amount […]
Bloom defends collaborative warming shelter effort at Hazel’s House of Hope
MORGANTOWN — In its first year of operation at Hazel’s House of Hope, the city and county funded warming shelter has had its share of growing pains […]
Dec. 5 letters to the editor
Downtown must have own warming shelter Monongalia Friends Meeting has a deep concern for our neighbors in Morgantown who are without shelter this winter. As Quakers, we […]
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, […]
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 […]
Nov. 28 letters to the editor
Cost is too high to ignore climate change The science relating to the existence and cause of climate change has been settled for years — combustion of […]
Downtown needs its own warming shelter
Now that the temperatures are dipping below 40 degrees, Hazel House (formerly the Ramada Inn on Scott Avenue) is preparing to expand its emergency shelter into a […]
Morgantown Council funds warming shelter, accepts CDBG CARES Act money
MORGANTOWN — A theme ran through much of Tuesday’s regular meeting of Morgantown City Council as the body took up action items addressing food insecurity, rent and […]
