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Recent stories from Morgantown
Grumbein’s Island
Some call Grumbein’s Island, the pedestrian island on University Avenue between WVU’s Mountainlair and Martin Hall, a refuge for walkers. Most would disagree. Nearly 700 people cross this tiny section of University Avenue in the minutes between 12:15 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. alone, according to a 2011 feasibility study considering changes to Grumbein’s Island. Most are pedestrians heading to the…
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Grab Your Padlz
Experience flat water paddling just minutes from Morgantown Paddlers float with the wind past peaceful and quiet nature. Turtles sun themselves on rocks, and a blue heron perches in its nest in the branches of a tree. The Big Sandy River is dammed at Bruceton Mills, creating three miles of backflow that is the Bruceton Mills Lake—flat water with no…
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Backup for the Bomb
Evidence of Morgantown’s role in building the atomic bomb still stands. Four stacks standing in a row in the Morgantown Industrial Park are nearly all that’s left of a massive World War II production complex: the Morgantown Ordnance Works. Prominent across the river from University Motors on Don Knotts Boulevard, the stacks are idle today but, in 1944 and 1945,…
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That’s All Folks
Will Morgantown’s historic Warner Theatre ever come back to life?