After years as a mail-order store, Plow & Hearth stokes the the enthusiasm of customers looking to find the perfect products to outfit their home—in person. Plow & Hearth does not sell plows, or hearths. But the store, located at Suncrest Towne Centre in the space formerly occupied by Coldwater Creek, has just about anything for the home, garden, and…
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Wells Home Furnishings is bringing high-tech interior design and down-home customer service to the Morgantown area. It was 1994. The World Wide Web had finally become a thing, email was starting to surpass snail mail, satellite TV services were just taking off, and workers completed a 31-mile tunnel—with the longest undersea portion in the world—connecting England and France. It was…
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A Pittsburgh shop opens its doors in Morgantown. These days, locally owned doughnut shops are, sadly, scarce in Morgantown, but Peace, Love, and Little Donuts is here to change that—sort of. The company’s first doughnut and coffee shop opened in Pittsburgh in 2009, and since then locations have popped up across Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Morgantown store, nestled in the…
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Cheese Louise offers comfort food done right. Steamy, crusted bread, melting layers of cheese, and a cup filled with robust homemade flavors reminiscent of childhood: Nothing pairs better than a buttery grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of frothy tomato soup. Cheese Louise owner and Morgantown native Lawton Parnell whips up all sorts of gooey variations of this classic combo…
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Vision, guts, investment, persuasion–it takes a lot of nerve to turn wilderness to farmland to city.