Historians at a Lewis County landmark go to great lengths to tell the story of the criminally insane, a history long kept behind locked doors. “It all starts with a question,” says Rebecca Gleason, operations manager at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston. Each year, tour guides marshal legions of people through the state mental hospital–turned–historic attraction. They show off…
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The sidewalk problem–who pays and how does it get enforced?–is yet to be resolved. It’s been two years since we last bemoaned the condition of city sidewalks in these pages. For such a foot-happy community— 12th among cities under 100,000 in 2012, with more than 18 percent of residents walking to work—Morgantown has terrible sidewalks. Since a new city manager…
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The new Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place aims to engage with a millennial demographic as well as with the community it calls home. The sleek brick-and-glass tower with its modern silhouette and pristine landscaping perched on Morgantown’s revitalized Wharf District has become something of an icon. For parents and new WVU students, tailgaters and tourists, natives and transplants traveling on…
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The Women United affinity group of the local United Way is targeting early-childhood literacy. It’s a sad fact that children from low-income families don’t start school with the same size vocabulary as children from high-income families. They have fewer books, and they’re read to less often. By the time they start school, research shows, they’ve heard 30 million fewer words…
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Morgantown welcomes a Ugandan refugee. When Hydary Bossa sees that a resident of Mapleshire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center could use some cheer, he goes a little further than some nursing assistants would. He might sing a song. He might even do a little dance. It’s in this graceful young man’s nature to take care of the people around him. One…
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