Take advantage of the warm weather and get your exercise out in the open, with equipment provided by the city—and Mother Nature. With 48 miles of rail-trail—easily accessible for activities ranging from walking and running to biking and rollerblading— as well as numerous parks and plenty of hills, Morgantown offers an assortment of opportunities for physical activity. And as summer’s…
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The Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia takes flight, rehabilitating winged creatures from robins to red-tailed hawks. Canaan, a red-tailed hawk who can no longer fly, nestles on the gloved hand of Katie Fallon, who is feeding the bird on a sunny spring day. “She prefers mouse heads and torsos over mouse tails,” Katie says as Canaan spits out a mouse…
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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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